Grandpa Caver wrote: any more ideas, anyone?
So besides your exercise of staging a scenario you could do a number of table top scenarios beforehand or in the cave (Tactical Excercies Without Troops" TEWTs). Run each of them with a different older boy in the hot seat. Offer potential solutions as needed.
Who's in charge if the leader goes down? How do you decide that if there is no clear secondary leader?
The water's rising! Now what? Darn those freak thunderstorms. The weather report was clear. Of course we checked. Didn't we?
The leader has been bonked in the head with a rock and can't lead. Will you wait for help? (You did tell someone where you were going, right?). Will you send someone out for help? One? Two? Who? Who will stay. What supplies to you have? What can you do with them. What supplies stay with the patient and which supplies go out (if someone is going out)?
Flesh eating aliens have invaded the cave, chased you around and eaten the scout master. You're lost. Now what? Split up? (Nip that one in the bud). Stay put? Look to get back out? Create weapons and attack the aliens?
Scoutmaster falls and breaks an ankle. Still can lead. Scouts splint it. Self evacuation? Call for help? Both simultaneously? If calling for help, who will go? One ? Two? What if it's the knee? What if his neck hurts real bad? How would someone call for help anyway? Radios? Cell phones? Is there coverage or not? (good chance to talk about coverage issues, elevation, repeaters, etc). Will someone have to drive? Where are the keys? Is there someone else who can safely/legally drive if needed in this emergency? (This might be a good one to put the scoutmaster in the hot seat after the boys have had to experience it).