Easter Eggs? Check. Excited Explorers? Check. Exhilarating experiences? Check. It must be Easter Camp! On Thursday 13th April, several minibuses packed full of Explorers and their assorted kit headed up to St Brides on Wales’ Pembrokeshire coast for an unforgettable Easter Camp. Friday morning started early for our Explorers; the agenda today, a 20(ish)km hike. […]
Read more4* Open Canoe Training
This adventurous Open Canoeing weekend started with a tour around London in order to collect various people and kit. The long drive to Llangollen seemed to take forever, and most of us were on our last legs when we arrived at the campsite just after 1am. Unfortunately for some, we were due to be up […]
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Banff Mountain Film Festival 2017
Skiing, trail running, extreme kayaking… no, this wasn’t what we spent our evening doing, unfortunately. However, we did get to see some amazing films of these activities done on a crazy scale, which is pretty much the next best thing, right? The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival takes place in Canada every November, and then […]
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Mayhem on the River Medway
At 7am last Saturday morning, several intrepid Explorers and Leaders left Scout Park. The minibus was laden with canoes, strapped to every possible surface and stacked on top of each other, until the bus resembled little more than a moving pile of canoes. Having arrived at the River Medway put in, we prepared our lunch […]
Read moreThe Southern 50 Challenge 2017
What’s a Scout’s favourite topic of conversation? Well, I’m sure it depends on the Unit, but at Wild Wolf ESU it’s not uncommon to hear Explorers comparing the merits of different Goretex waterproofs, or planning a DofE expedition by sail, or finalising the details of an Explorer Belt hike in Germany. One thing’s for certain […]
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WWESU in Yorkshire: Winter Camp 2017
Nestled at the foot of Pen y Ghent, one of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks, Halton Gill was the setting for the 2012 remake of ‘The Woman in Black’. Thankfully, however, the hostel where we spent the past weekend seemed to be relatively ghost-free. Last Friday evening we set off from Scout Park for the long drive up […]
Read moreLeaders have a Wales of a time
It would be unfair of us to put Explorers through their paces on DofE expeditions if we didn’t occasionally prove that we too could pass muster. Last weekend the Leaders headed to Llangollen in North Wales for some exciting white water in Canadian Canoes. We met at the Dockland Scout Project where we collected the […]
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Reach for the stars!: Climbing Permit Assessments
In Explorers we like to do amazing activities, but we need permits to do them and unfortunately there aren’t many of them to go around. Here at Wild Wolf we like youth-led Scouting so a few Explorers (myself included) decided to try and get some permits ourselves. Yesterday Megan, Ross and I (Simpson) ran a climbing […]
Read moreFireworks Display Update
Many thanks to everyone who has bought a ticket to our display. Your support means a huge amount to us. Tickets will be available on the gate, but once we have reached capacity we will not be able to admit any more people, ticket holders excepted. Please arrive as early as you can to avoid […]
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Wild Camping in the Scottish Highlands
Last week, six of our Explorers and three of our Leaders headed up to Corrour, in the remote Scottish Highlands, for five days of intense hiking. Here they’ve written about the experience… TUESDAY We met at a crowded Euston Station at 8pm on Tuesday evening, to board the Caledonian Sleeper train. As we walked to […]
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