Bright and early on Thursday morning 27 Scouts, Explorers and Leaders from Wild Wolf ESU, the 15th Wood Green and 9th Muswell Hill piled into minibuses and headed off to Snowdonia for four days of mountain adventure. The camp started with all the Patrols doing their shopping at Sainsbury’s in Shrewsbury, where they stocked up […]
Read moreIce Climbing in Scotland
Last week our Explorer Scout Leader headed to Scotland for a week of winter mountaineering on Ben Nevis and the Mamores with friends from our District’s Network: We had managed to get return tickets for £45 each and we were staying at Glen Nevis Youth Hostel just outside Fort William – perfectly located at the […]
Read moreSouthern 50 – a 50k walk through the Chiltern Hills
At 7pm last Friday evening my Southern 50 team arrived at Scout Park to prepare for a challenging weekend away. We collected all the group kit and made sure everyone had everything they needed. After a quick tweet, we left and got on the tube for the journey out to Chalfont and Latimer. Multiple weird […]
Read moreA Snowy Weekend Away
Last weekend nearly 40 members of Wild Wolf ESU and 15th Wood Green Scout Group headed to the Peak District to take over a youth hostel and go hiking. The young people report: On Friday we packed our stuff on the mini buses and started our trip. We arrived at the hostel that at first […]
Read moreOur DofE Silver Expedition to the Lake District
Early on Tuesday morning we got to scout park, a bit more prepared than we were on the practise and we got all our group kit. We also found out that our team leader Dearbhla was still on holiday and so we would have to organise everything ourselves. Then followed a bloody long journey to […]
Read moreOur Gold DofE Expedition.
It all started when I was rudely awoken by my alarm clock, aka, my mum. I met everyone at Scout Park and we finally set off after tying everything onto the roofrack and laughing at Joe and his mum’s poncho. From Scout Park we made our merry way up to the Lake District keeping moral […]
Read moreOur Scottish Summer Camp
A ten day trip to Scotland with 24 teenagers in tow – the ESL’s perspective… After three years of hot, sunny summer camps in places like Holland, Austria and the Swiss Alps I knew from the off that selling a camp to Scotland would be hard. “Scotland! Rain and midges? Really Marlon, why can’t we […]
Read moreOur Scottish Summer Camp – Patrick Tripp went canyoning
Marlon booked some canyoning for us and this is what happened… We risked life and limb sliding over rocks in freezing water with jagged edges and dangerous drops. Doesn’t sound like fun? Good thing you’re not tough explorers from Wild Wolf ESU who ziplined into infinity pools, swam next to waterfalls, climbed behind crashing […]
Read moreOur Scottish Summer Camp
It has been an amazing eight days so far but camp still isn’t over. We have done far too much to sum up in one post, but in summary we have hiked to the top of Ben Nevis, became canyoneers and jumped, swam and slid down the Inchree River, hired out a sports centre for a […]
Read moreOur Scottish Summer Camp – The hike up the Carn Mor Dearg arete
Matthew and Ben report on their day of scrambling and hiking and scrambling up and along the Carn Mor Dearg arête to the top of Ben Nevis… From the very start, we knew we were in for a challenge, as we were immediately faced with a steep climb which seemed to go on forever. Luckily […]
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