Activity log

D of E Gold qualifying hike

When: 26 Jul - 1 Aug

Where: Dartmoor

Who went: Gold group

Highlights

Completing the hike and passing! Not getting lost!! More rain (surprise surprise)

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Gilwell 24

When: 11 - 13 July

Where: Gilwell Park (The spiritial home of Scouting)

Who went: The only two from No Limits who weren't on holiday (where was our invite the rest of you?), plus 4 Explorers "adopted" from Tan Gwyllt.  Dave and Pete went with Scafell.

Highlights

Lasting the 24 hours (or not!). The leaders were busy as staff, so haven't got a clue what the Explorers got up to, but activities on offer included a fairground, zorbing, climbing, high ropes, 3g swing, EA games trailer, segways, crate stacking and woodland quasar.

District Cub camp

When: 4 - 6 July

Where: Islwyn Scout Parc

We ran the climbing and abseiling at this year's district Cub camp.

Highlights

Abseiling forwards. An never-seen-before style of indoor "campfire". Pete's rendition of Zombies. 

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Gold training hike

When: 28 - 29 June

Where: Brecon Beacons

Who went: Gold group

Highlights

More rain! (Seems to be a theme this year...) The leaking bothy shelter. Somebody forgetting their lunch. Pete failing miserably to get everyone lost (Couldn't catch 'em out at all)!! Nearly everyone getting scared in a dis-used railway tunnel.  Pizza!

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Hovercraft project

When: 17 June

Where: At the scout hut

We've started to build a hovercraft!  One which will be big enough to sit on.  This meant introducing some of the Explorers to power tools for the first time...

Quotes

There were numerous.  Mostly involving going either too fast or too slow with a router/jigsaw, or not being able to follow a line marked on wood! 

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Climbing @ Tyle-y-coch

When: 10 June

Where: Tyle-y-coch quarry

Who went: Matt, Kate, Naomi, Nathan, Richard, Lee, Dave, Pete

Highlights

Lee getting to the top of a climb

Quotes

  • Where's the fishing rod?!

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Rogerstone Group camp

When: 24-30 May

Where: Parc-le-Breos, Gower

Who went: All the Young Leaders, Explorer Leaders, and most of Rogerstone Group

Highlights

Helping to plot and execute the "swimming hike" for the Scouts! Watching the Cubs nearly take off during storm force winds on Oxwich beach. The new Girl Scout. More rain! 

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Bronze expedition

When: 10-11 May

Where: Usk Valley

Who went: Bronze group

Highlights

Doing it!  Finally!

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Easter camp 2008: Lake district

When: 24-30 March

Where: Great Tower Scout Campsite, Windermere, Cumbria

Who went: Alex, Nathan, Jade, Zoe, Dave, Peter, Lee, Gavin, Andy

Highlights

The weather! Mountain walking in the snow, Via ferrata, Jacob's ladder, leap of faith, crate stacking, the chocolate shop

The quotes

  • Cooooooooooold
  • We're all gonna die!
  • What's one of these? A dead one of those!
  • Alex the Salmon's got... wet feet
  • What's cold and green?  Lee!
  • What's cold, wet and Brown? Zoe!
  • Doing a Pete! this means leaving your mobile phone on the roof of your car and driving half way to Kendal before realising!

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District Cub funday

When: 29 February - 2 March

Where: Magor Woods (Wilcrick Hill) near Magor, Monmouthshire.

Who went: Nathan, Zoe, Kate, Tom, Dave, Peter, Gavin, Lee

Highlights

Wind (and not due to baked beans!), falling trees, burning stuff (again), Lee's backwoods kitchen, comparing the burning properties of meths and paraffin

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Winter camp

When: 25-27 January

Where: Jubilee Fields, Scout Campsite, Vale of Glamorgan.

Who went: Nathan, Zoe, Jade, Kate, Tom, Dave, Peter, Gavin

Highlights

Learning proper backwoods skills, burning stuff, spherical burning stuff, a game with sticks, and the aqueous challenge!

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Gwentrek 2007

When: 5-7 October

Where: Cwmbran to Usk

Who Went: Jade, Zoe, Kate, Naomi, Nathan, Alex, Will, Jon, John, Tariq, Dave, Pete

Highlights

The A team coming second and the B team; not coming last, despite getting disqualified

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AWESOME 2007

When: 28-30 September

Where: Glanusk Park, near Crickhowell

Who Went: Jade, Zoe, Kate, Naomi, Nathan, Will, Jon, Dave, Andy, Pete, Gavin

Highlights

Skinning rabbits! Shaving foam (don't ask), getting to know hundreds of other Explorers from around Wales

Quotes

  • Woo-hoo!

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