TWO 747 Royal Canadian Terrace Air Cadets are learning skills and having fun at a summer cadet camp in Vernon in the Okanagan.
Cadet Matthew Lozhkin and Cadet Harry Nguyen have been participating in expedition training at Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre. Hiking skills are a key component of the training cadets receive on the basic expedition course.
Lozhkin, Nguyen, and 60 other cadets are spending six weeks furthering their training and leadership skills, including how to lead others by selecting and navigating a route using maps, how to pack for an expedition, how to establish a daily routine, riding a mountain bike on trails and paddling a canoe on moving water.
The training culminates in a 15-day expedition that will see them travel more than 250 kilometres by hiking, mountain biking, and canoeing from Vernon north to Kamloops.
During the summer, more than 1,150 army, sea, and air cadets from western Canada spend up to six weeks in the Okanagan Valley training centre, expanding the training they’ve already received and developing new skills.