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Scout Camps
« on: July 14, 2008, 12:41:09 »
OK, where are you Scouters off too this summer then?

I'm off on Friday night to the Lake District near Coniston with my Troop, well they arrive on the Saturday but we're off to get a start on pitching some of the tents like the marquee. It's one of our favourite sites which is way off the track so we get to combine some private off roading with getting to the site.


Plenty of activities planned like a hike up the Old Man of Coniston, canoeing, rafting on the tarn next to the site, and plenty of open fires.

We have a senior patrol this year - think we're going to dump them at Great Tower with rations and a tarp one afternoon, and let them find their own way back overnight  ;) The other patrols get to hike to Rydal Hall for the night where they have access to real toilets  :-o and showers ! Must be getting soft.

Typically though the forecast looks wet!!! Hmmmm
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2008, 18:12:41 »
As it happens, the Lake District, but we go the following Friday.  They are all going by train (5 hour trip), with us towing the kit up the M6.

They're doing a few activities; High & Low Ropes, Archery, Shooting, Mountain Biking, Rope Crossings, Camp Pioneering, Orienteering, Expedition Hike & Overnight Camp, Kayaking, & Swimming.

Hoping we get a dry week.
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 19:27:16 »
Blimey... Lake District eh?

No longer Scouting as I got frustrated with the politics of being ADC and the whole thing of 'part time voluntary...' but think I was at it too long having taken out a Warrant as part of my Queen's Scout Award...

BUT>>>

When I was a lowly Scout, we used to go to Tebay and had a fantastic site in a valley where you had a radio mast to the top of the valley and the M6 to the other end (in the far distance).  I used to think that our HQ team were superhuman in their ability to forecast the weather... almost to the minute, until my third trip to the site (by which time I was HQ) and I knew that the weather at the head of the valley would take just under an hour to get to us!  :dance:  :dance:

Best of all... we used to have a day know as the Monster Hike Challenge - typically around 20 miles in a day with crack of dawn start.

How wonderful it is to come round a corner in a remote spot to find a Series 1 LR, tailgate down and acting as a support for a gas stove laden with hot bacon, sausages and fried eggs... truly food of the Gods at 7am!

Not so clever was the year I agreed to map read for said Series 1.... all the way from Dulwich in South London to (that year) a site in remote Devon.  Mmmnnn 40 mph all the way.

Still, my loyalty did mean that I also got trusted to move it across the camp site - first LR experience...

Enjoy your summer everyone...
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2008, 21:43:19 »
Quote from: mike142sl on July 14, 2008, 12:41:09
OK, where are you Scouters off too this summer then?

I'll be racing at a 'local' scout camp again in the autumn

(Bradley Woods, at Brighouse)
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 13:48:25 »
We're taking 65 Scouts and Explorers to Scotland in August, along with a selection of Solihulls finest products !

Went to Austria last year, the plan is Morocco for 2009.
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 16:05:21 »
I am off to Blair Atholl on Saturday for the 2 week International Jamborette. Been going now for 22 years but this may be the last as the wife has got v grumpy at bein left with 16 month and a minus two months in her tum tum.
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2008, 17:45:17 »
Not scouting quite but the missus is a guider and she,s off to Iceland for 2 weeks on monday for an international jamboree with with 3 leaders and 12 guides, i think there,s about 300 from around the world going, me i get the kids for 2 weeks  :roll:
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2008, 00:48:43 »
im not going anywhere this year, it clashes with my own family holiday and cant get more time off work, so we are going to switzerland (canderstag) next year, should be fun
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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2008, 15:17:47 »
Had our district scout camp this weekend, awesome weather and I'm now proficient in turks heads!!

well, when pioneering and you find the ground is too soft for a decent anchorage what do you do? Use a land rover of course!!




and then a lovely camp fire with a full moon followed by a good old wide game.

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Re: Scout Camps
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2008, 13:38:35 »
Well, hope you all had good camps.

After 27 years I had my first Hospital visit to deal with this year  :doh: but all was well in the end and the scout managed to carry on.

If you're interested I have put a report on our web site here: www.142group.net/scamp08
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