Tomorrow is the BIG DAY – Gilwell 24 kicks off 1 – see bulksms txt re: weather. We are expecting temperatures around 30C and full sun over Saturday. So long sleeves, hats, sunscreen, water bottles and great care to avoid heat stroke and sunburn are essential. Pack light, sun-blocking layers. [read on...]
exhausted
We are all home, alive, well and utterly, utterly tired out. My bus full was asleep within 7 minutes of hitting the road. We can almost forgive them, because the leaders were only held awake by much tea and coffee.
The official coverage is here (but ours is at least as good – see!)
We have been quite busy with these sorts of activities for Explorer Scouts
Gilwell Gauntlet
Segways
Power Boking
Car driving
Gilwell Marathon (Offsite Activity)
Mountain Boarding
Quad Bikes
Simulators
Cinema
Go Karts
Assault Course
Water Slides
Raft Racing / Boat Racing
Rifle Shooting Competition
Rocket Building
Inflatables
Archery
Rock Climbing
Speed Climbing
Food Challenge
Orienteering
Scavenger Hunt
Playstation Zone
Water Rockets
Fire Building
Military Activity Team
Digital Camera Centre
Craft Zone
Laser Clay Pigeon Shooting
CyberCafe
Crate Stacking
Water Polo
Card games
Speed Stacking
Giant Games
Campfire
It’s a knockout
Caving
Mobile Phone Marking
Scuba Diving
Survival Zone
Fairground
Outdoor Woodland Quaser
Evening Disco
As well as all the little games, singing, clapping games, Stuck-in-the-Mud and other little things that the three Explorer Units from Brocks, Barton and Anomalous could get up to (not forgetting the friends we knew from Harlington and Toddington, or the new friends we made from Dunstable).
The leaders got the kit back to Brocks store and were home drinking tea by about 11am.
So… who want to go back in 2011 ?
Brocks Young Spokespeople took some video of us at the event -
The Media Team in Action
What The Gilwell Adventure Felt Like at 6am
Interviewing The Management Team
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Mass Catering – Anomalous Explorer Style
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well, we are all apparently still alive, even if horribly sleep deprived. This year, no swine flu and no major incidents or rain. By keeping to the shade and drinking lots of water, we avoided the worst effects of the scorching heat (30C+) and managed to take part in almost all the activities – from Diving to Trapeze swings.
the leadership grabbed some sleep at midnight, leaving the three Units to enjoy the ‘rave’, the late night 5-a-side football and the night adventures.
Lots of photos will appear real soon now (here and on the Flickr pages)
thanks for helping us get here and enjoy it!
Jul 102010
The Anomalous Unit are live at Gilwell 24, and it is HOT HOT HOT here today – hitting 30C or more – so we are all having to adapt to the heat and the lack of shade.
Some are lazing under the brilliantly engineered sunshade that Sweyn has rigged. Some are slashing their T-Shirts to make suntops, and all are sticking to the regime of suncream, lots of fluids and lots of shade.
(this is Laura, our Unit photographer – she took these shots)
Hats are very much de rigeur, and the traditionalists are looking rather stylish in theirs:
Others are just chilling in the sunshine
We’ll be here, up, awake and doing activities for about 24 hours. Let’s see if they can keep going in this heat and at this level and pace.
Certainly, it has already caused the leaders to go into ‘relaxed mode’, eh, Sweyn?
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