February and March
District Competition
During the Spring Term we held our District competition all four unit took part. We had Air Rifle shooting, archery, quiz, darts, table tennis and a super Stars competition.
March
First Aid Course
As part of the Gold D of E the Explorer scout and also some of the leaders took part in and past their 1st Response course run by St John’s.
Senior Explorer Scouts Snooker
The Senior/Gold D of E unit had a couple of evening playing snooker in Aldershot
Comic Relief
For Comic Relief the district had a fun and mad evening playing games, raffle and hot dogs which the explorer scouts had to pay to for the food and raffles which raised just over £200.
April
D of E Silver Expedition
District Competition
During the Spring Term we held our District competition all four unit took part. We had Air Rifle shooting, archery, quiz, darts, table tennis and a super Stars competition.
March
First Aid Course
As part of the Gold D of E the Explorer scout and also some of the leaders took part in and past their 1st Response course run by St John’s.
Senior Explorer Scouts Snooker
The Senior/Gold D of E unit had a couple of evening playing snooker in Aldershot
Comic Relief
For Comic Relief the district had a fun and mad evening playing games, raffle and hot dogs which the explorer scouts had to pay to for the food and raffles which raised just over £200.
April
D of E Silver Expedition
12 Explorers, 4 Leaders and 4 cars set out on our annual D of E Silver Expedition to the Peak District. We left Camelsdale at 10.15 am on Bank Holiday Monday and arrived at out camp site at 4.15pm after a visit to the Derwent Reservoir (One of the sites where 617 Squadron “The Dambusters” practiced their low level bombing runs due to its similarity to the German dams)
We spent a very windy Monday night in the tents at Edale and awoke to a cloudy sky but at least the wind had stopped blowing after breakfast the first 6 Explorers went down under (not Australia, but caving with 3 members of Surrey Caving club). After 2 hours crawling through passages the Explorers returned to daylight, wet and muddy but really glad they had the opportunity to do some caving in the area, the other 6 Explorer spent the morning in Bakewell and at 1pm they swapped with the other group and went caving.
Wednesday morning, after having breakfast, the Explorers set out on their first of 3 days hiking. Starting at Edale and doing a 10 mile circuit finishing back at Edale where they spent another night this time it was a cold. Thursday morning after breakfast and taking down the tents they set of in their teams of 4 for another 10 miles of walking to the next camp site at Pindale (just above Castleton). We shared the camp site with some young people who were doing their Gold D of E and just over the wall we had a large number of ewes and their lambs. It was nice that during the night they were quite and so were the Explorers. After a cold night the Explorer were up, tents packed away and their rucksacks on their backs. They started their last day of walking (another 10 miles) over some more hills down into valleys ending up at Ladybower Reservoir, they were glad to sit down in the cars for the journey home. Mind you the leaders had to put up with the aroma of the explorers feet after they took their boots off for the trip back (nice).
Day 1
Bank Holiday Monday
Bank Holiday Monday
Day 2
Tuesday
Caving in
Carlswark Cavern
Tuesday
Caving in
Carlswark Cavern
Day 2
Tuesday
The Enrollment Carlswark Cavern
Tuesday
The Enrollment Carlswark Cavern
Day 3
Wednesday
From Edale to Edale
Wednesday
From Edale to Edale
Day 4
Thursday
From Edale to Pindale
Thursday
From Edale to Pindale
Day 5
Friday
From Pindale to Reservoir
Friday
From Pindale to Reservoir
