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The Unit climbed from it’s tents this morning for one of the most anticipated days of the camp – high ropes and white water rafting: two of Kandersteg’s best activities. Phil has go pro addiction and is a slippery fish. Tragically our group was split down the middle so that activities could be rotated. We arrived […]

  After a night of incessant rain, the explorers woke to find that their tents were dry, much to their surprise! Most of us enjoyed warm showers, except for a few who chose to spend a few more valuable moments in their sleeping bags, missed out on the precious hot water. #scoutcampproblems Having finished breakfast we went […]

After the first good night’s sleep, breakfast was served. We then had our first proper flag break of camp followed by a few notices and we had less than an hour to get ourselves ready for the day: a hike up the Gallihorn, a mountain at the head of our valley. The hike was only […]

Traffic jams and bad singing, (Dearbhla, Aneesa and Thomas). Step off the coach in Kandersteg. WOW! Mountains are big AND rocky! Sorry, how far does Marley-Bear want us to carry the kit? 2 hours worth of erecting tents in the blistering heat.   Marley-Bear ditches explorers for a comfy ride to cable cars in a […]

After a wet and windy weekend in Snowdonia we returned on Monday night to the mammoth, and unenviable, task of drying out all of the patrol tents, jurte and mess tent. Luckily we were able to book the Sheridan Hall at Scout Park and we hung all of the wet canvases on chairs to dry […]

For some of our members, last night meant receiving their Jack Petchey awards. For the rest of us, however, it meant celebrating Pancake Day by attempting a remaking of the pancake scene from the film ‘Matilda’. Although our version may not be very true to the original, we definitely had fun making it. Watch the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]