Author: Alastair

A later morning for the leaders but some of the Explorers were up at 5am to go to the Big Zip and get in the queue early. After breakfast and spending some time sorting out camp ready for packing away we set off, we popped into the Trading Post and picked up the rafting photos… Continue reading Day 12 – Old Friends and Food

So up early at 6 to shower and get ready to leave site at 7, me and Chris had planned to go up to the shooting, it’s an hours walk up hill or a 30 min walk on the flat to the bus stop. We decided to walk to the bus, wrong call! The queue… Continue reading Day 11 – The Barrels

Woke at 6am with a phone call from the UK 😁 not important so went back to sleep for an hour before getting up. Half the Unit were going offsite rafting today they left and few others went off to take part in the activities. I decided it was time to do some washing. Myself… Continue reading Day 10 – A walk around the lake

Today was Mount Jack, this is a onsite activity at the top of Mount Jack. after breakfast and filling up with Powerade we set off. The hole to the top was about 3 miles and took us about an hour, luckily most of the trail was in the woods as the whole B Basecamp of… Continue reading Day 8 – Mount Jack

Friday was a later start as it’s culture Day and there are no activities being run today. It was Patrol’s D Duty day so they started breakfast. We have 4 Patrols of 9 Scouts each including 2 Patrol Leaders. Each Patrol takes a day being the duty patrol, this involves them deciding the meals for… Continue reading Day 7 – Culture Day and Unity Show

The Explorers were keen to get up early this morning as they wanted to head to the activities before the queues started to form. So a quick cereal breakfast and they were out. Myself, Alex and Chris decided to go out Exploring so headed off to see what we could find. Heading over the Consol… Continue reading Day 6 – Exploring & Basecamp Bash

Getting used to these 7 o’clock starts as the camp starts to wake up. It was another cold night and the cloud was low across the subcamp. We went shopping agin with a couple of the Explorers fo our days supplies. The shop is a rather large tent that looks after all of BaseCamp B.… Continue reading Day 5 – Gateway & Gadgets

Up at 7:00 and it was still raining! Myself, Chris, Gareth and Alex went shopping it wasn’t as manic as the day before so we stocked up for the day and headed back to camp. Breakfast was cereal pots, surprisingly nice and easy. The explorers then set off to explore the site as it was… Continue reading Day 4 – Opening Ceremony

Awake a 7:30 so almost a lie in, then packed and went down to meet the rest of the Unit who ere gathering outside the University Hall. Being sat around isn’t something the Explorers do well so they decided on an impromptu game of volley ball, but Gareth and Chris appeared with a smoothie each… Continue reading Day 3 – Arrival Day