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CAVER
NOTE!!!
Caving and potholing are potentially hazardous pursuits and Scouts should only undertake this badge if they can gain the necessary experience as a member of a properly organised caving group, run by experienced adult cavers, who will directly supervise any vertical pitches.
We start with the new scheme and its requirements -
- Take part in at least four different trips to at least two different cave systems as a member of a properly led group.
- Keep a record of these trips, and the routes followed.
- Have a good knowledge of the contents of the caving and cave conservation codes, and be able to discuss with the assessor measures that can be taken by participants in the activity to reduce conflict and promote conservation.
Caver (Stage One)
- Maintain a log of the exploration on at least four different trips in a least two different cave systems as a member of a properly led group.
- Keep a record of these trips, including sketch maps of the systems and the routes followed.
- Have a knowledge of the contents of the caving and cave conservation codes.
Caver (Stage Two)
- Hold the Caver (Stage One) badge.
- Learn how caves are formed and be able to talk about them with the examiner.
- Rig and use a ladder pitch under supervision.
- Undertake, as part of a properly led group, six different trips in at least two different cave systems, these to be different from, or extensions of, those logged for the Caver (Stage One) badge. Three of these trips should include sections involving vertical pitches. The accounts of these trips to be presented in the same log as that used for the Caver (Stage One) badge.
- Learn the caving and cave conservation codes and be able to discuss with the examiner measures that can be taken by participants in the activity to reduce conflict and promote conservation.
- Make a study on an aspect of speleology agreed with the examiner and discuss your findings (for example, fauna and flora found in caves, cave photography or bat conservation).
 More later
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This was the equivalent award in 1914, the MINERS BADGE.
- Have a general knowledge of one particular branch of the mining industry, such as coal, iron or other mineral, with the special dangers involved and safeguards against them, and must have worked below the surface for not less than six months.
CWS Card from 1939
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