Junior Girl Scout Adventure Sports Badge

 This program takes at least three to three and a half hours to complete.  First the scouts participate in a rock climbing session.  The scouts learn how to prepare their bodies for Adventure Sports through stretching and warming up.  The scouts then are suited up with harnesses and helmets provided by Laurel Caverns and travel into the cave to work on one of our two in cave climbing walls.  They are guaranteed one climb on the wall.  Fewer scouts attending could allow for more climbs.  The climbing portion takes about an hour to an hour and a half to complete.  The next hour will be map reading and obstacle course session.  Scouts will spend some time in the lighted section of the cave learning hour to read a cave map.  Then they enter one of the unlit rooms of the cave and learn how obstacle courses can increase their physical agility skills.  They will run an "in cave" obstacle course.   The final hour will be spent participating in a cave exploring trip into some of the largest rooms of the cave.

Cost: $17.00 per participant.

Participants will be entering the dark undeveloped portions of our cave.  Scouts and leaders are required to bring two good sources of light.  They should wear comfortable clothes with long sleeves and long pants and also sturdy shoes with good tread and ankle support.  Adults and scouts (with a parent co-signature) are required to sign waivers for this program.  The waivers can be downloaded from this website.  It is all indoors so weather is never a problem.