We took the opportunity to get a last Survival Friday in for 2024 on the last Friday in August. It was a pleasant evening of stories and brews. Most of the scouts stayed up all night, some tried tea for the first time. Some spotted a Starlink satellite train.
A great weekend for Strategy for our scouts. They returned tired, but happy after a weekend of incident hike around Cirencester Park on Saturday and adventure activities on Sunday.
Scouts had a delightful evening on the Wye up from the Symonds Yat rapids on Monday, developing their skills in preparation for a day paddle in September.
Scouts took part in the first “Survival Friday” since 2018 on Friday night. They have to build a tarp shelter, sleep in it, light a wood fire, and cook breakfast. We managed to get a bacon buttie before midnight and a full English (scrambled, beans, bacon, sausage) before clearing away. A mild, dry, light wind…
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St George is the patron saint of Scouting. Some of the young people and leaders joined the Coleford parade this afternoon. Sunny, warm and dry weather made it pleasant. It wasn’t too long, so the young people didn’t mind too much.
Scouts had a great time building a tarp shelter and sleeping out overnight cooking their meals on a wood fire. That Backwoods.
We took a group of Scouts and Explorers to the Haarlem Jamborette in The Netherlands. It is the most amazing ten days that you can imagine on scouting. Water activities, pioneering, cooking for the whole Forest of Dean group, hikes of various lengths. puzzles, games, frisbee, dressing up, crafts, performances, creativity, social, disco, fast food,…
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Another fun scouts adventure weekend at Cirencester
We took Scouts and Explorers from across the Forest of Dean to Belgium for a week. We stayed at the De Kluis camp site near St Joris Weert. We cycled, canoed, hiked, swam, saw battlefields, visited the scout museum, and Brussels. It was brilliant.
It was a heatwave for the Scout paddle down the Wye. Started at Luckshall Campsite, camped at Tresseck at Hoarwithy. Decided not to paddle on Sunday, even an early start would have carried risk of over-heating.
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