Its been a long winter, so was finally pleased to get out for the weekend with the scouts...I could feel a little cabin fever creeping up on us all...
On the friday the big boys took off up to the site to have some quality time around the campfire, and set up the main area...
The best ******* 4x4xfar
Tarps up and fire going, Ollie & The Good Dr. look on...
Range constructed and my new pot ready for action...
Its a hard life this camping lark...Ollie and Gwyn chew the fat...
Abandoned the hammock for the Therma Rest and terra firma...
Dinner's ready...Game stew, with home-brewed cider and veg...
The morning dawned fresh and bright (-4 in places overnight)...
The troops arrive, full of beans...
After breakfast...
Set the larder out for the evening meal...
And showed the scouts how to collect Birch sap...
Cross a river with a couple of ropes (Miss Stovie shows how its done)...
And not to be left out, yours truly plays too...
Overnight took advantage of that wonderful moonlight and played some serious wide games and invested a new scout who made her promise under the great cedar tree with the moonlight giving a strangely solemn feel to the whole ceremony...
As always the scouts set up their own tarps/shelters, cooked their own grub, froze overnight, and went home absolutely shattered...Just how it should be...
Juggling sharps...Miss Stovie and friend whittling spatulas...
All in all...a crackin' weekend...and couldn't do it without Ollie, Gwyn and The Good Dr...cheers boys...
On the friday the big boys took off up to the site to have some quality time around the campfire, and set up the main area...
The best ******* 4x4xfar

Tarps up and fire going, Ollie & The Good Dr. look on...

Range constructed and my new pot ready for action...

Its a hard life this camping lark...Ollie and Gwyn chew the fat...

Abandoned the hammock for the Therma Rest and terra firma...

Dinner's ready...Game stew, with home-brewed cider and veg...

The morning dawned fresh and bright (-4 in places overnight)...

The troops arrive, full of beans...

After breakfast...

Set the larder out for the evening meal...

And showed the scouts how to collect Birch sap...

Cross a river with a couple of ropes (Miss Stovie shows how its done)...

And not to be left out, yours truly plays too...

Overnight took advantage of that wonderful moonlight and played some serious wide games and invested a new scout who made her promise under the great cedar tree with the moonlight giving a strangely solemn feel to the whole ceremony...
As always the scouts set up their own tarps/shelters, cooked their own grub, froze overnight, and went home absolutely shattered...Just how it should be...
Juggling sharps...Miss Stovie and friend whittling spatulas...

All in all...a crackin' weekend...and couldn't do it without Ollie, Gwyn and The Good Dr...cheers boys...
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