We enjoyed a mini-break with other Bedfordshire Units at Milton Bryan. It was frosty, but the fires kept us all warm, eh, Princess? Thanks again to Brocks, Barton and Harlington Explorers!
Ice
Tolmers Fire and Ice 2012
We did two years at Gilwell Winter Camp, and were nicely frozen in. We dodged a huge mud puddle this year, as it was pouring with rain
Do we want to try our luck with Tolmers Fire and Ice next year?
It is for older scouts and explorers, would this be “too young” for the Unit to consider?
Next year the dates are the 13th to 15th Jan 2012. Cost this year was £16.50 per scout and £5 for Leaders. The suggestion for next year is that any groups going could book a pitch together so as to camp as a district. Please speak amongst your groups Paul Taberer from Flitwick is interested in any response.
Is this something that interests the Unit?
Let me or the committee know
Jan 102010
last minute scramble to get tickets. last minute panics over newspaper headlines of ‘lethal temperatures’ and ‘Britain colder than South Pole’ (but who reads the Mail or Mirror anyway?). last minute scramble to get a minibus. last minute kit run, and very last minute shopping. BUT WE GOT TO CAMP IN THE SNOW
This is how cold our camp site was this year
Suzi, Aquila, Josh, Lucy, Liam all deserve major kudos for their bravery, perseverance and plain excellent camp craft in these conditions.
Mark deserves a massive round of applause for showing me how to snowboard on an upturned table
Mark demonstrates snowboarding … on a bench
And the organisers deserve medals for their amazing hard work.
The BBC covered it here: [[BBC coverage of Winter Camp 2010 via Scout News]]
Now, who wants to go camping somewhere warm with a beach this summer?
Jan 182009
We must be fools, camping in freezing conditions (-5C) and on boggy, cold Gilwell clay. We probably do it for the laughs, but there were moments (like when we realised that we had the wrong gas – butane – and it was frozen in the cylinders) that we may have had regrets, but they were soon swamped by the support, fun and activities.
Next year? You bet!
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