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 …

Breakfast as usual, although we are finding that we are struggling to get some basic food supplies like bread and milk. It turns out that the US have based the food their National Jamboree and of course didn’t take into account that the UK and a lot of the Europeans do not live on Egg …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

So up early at 5:30 so we could sort ourselves out as our bus was due to leave the University at 7:40. We waited around before being called forward for breakfast, just a grab and go box containing a muffin and some Philadelphia Cheese then headed for the bus. We were now on Jamboree time …

So after 2 years of planning its finally Jamboree time and today, 20th July is the day we set off for 3 weeks of adventure. Alarm was set for 7 but I was wide awake at 6 if not before, excitement, anxiety or maybe a bit of both. I arrived at the Stanley’s HQ at …