Would you take two dozen kids out in the snow?

[tobes01]

Just wanted to say good luck to the team from The Bushcraft Company, who are taking a couple of dozen 8-16 year olds out into the Oxfordshire woods for the next two nights. The course is called "Winter Wilderness" but I doubt they thought it would be quite so wintry!

Apparently they'll all be sleeping in shelters, learning some carving skills, and how to keep warm in this weather. My lad went to their week-long camp in the summer and loved every minute, he's even more excited about this one.

Will let you know how they got on.

Tobes

[No connection with them, just a happy customer]

 

[Toddy]

Brilliant luck for the kids
Hope they have a really excellent time Much better than if they'd done it in the wet and mud.
Are there many companies that take children's groups like this ?

I took a pack of cubs camping one Winter; well, you could back then. Packed them in eight to a Niger tent.

I woke up in the morning in my little A frame tent in a bit of a panic, it was so light I was certain I'd slept in by hours. Undid the zip and stared straight at a four foot high wall of snow

Carnwath always was bitter cold

Be interesting to hear how he gets on

cheers,
Toddy

 

[tobes01]

They'll have a hoot of a time, he did the summer course and they were setting traps, fishing for crayfish, sleeping in leaf shelters - basically all the stuff that kids don't get to do these days.

I read an interview with the company's boss Alex (which is where I found out about them) where he bemoaned the fact that the only schools who will work with them are private ones, since the state schools won't even contemplate it on H&S grounds. However, anyone can book in on the public courses, hence why the boys are going.

Tobes

 

[Shewie]

Would you take two dozen kids out in the snow?

No, but then I don't particularly like kids anyway

 

[tobes01]

Would you take two dozen kids out in the snow?

No, but then I don't particularly like kids anyway

It does seem a little excessive, there's plenty of meat on just a few to keep you going for a while ;-)

 

[Shewie]

It does seem a little excessive, there's plenty of meat on just a few to keep you going for a while ;-)

Lol - you're a bad man Tobes

 

[John Fenna]

Been there - done that - never again!

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Would i have to bring them back again


*not a huge fan of kids........*

But really, i hope they all have a great time

 

[timboggle]

Yeah of course, done that in the past, not a problem with it at all and I bet they prob enjoy it more than if it was baking hot with midgies making them part of the food chain, well done to the company and instructors for doing it, tons of fun in store for them all, good memories for the kids for years.

 

[Celt_Ginger]

I'd love it. I take groups of kids out camping on a fairly regular basis. Never managed to have a snowy night though.

 

[Kerne]

Snow is a bonus.

I once took some "disaffected" kids to the Gower and walked them up Rhossili Down at night. I sat them down and told them we were going to be absolutely quiet and just look at the view. (Lights twinkling across Carmarthen Bay over a moonlit Worm's Head). I gave them 15 seconds, tops. Twenty minutes of total silence later, one of the kids says: "Isn't it getting a bit cold, Sir". One of those moments that keeps me in teaching.

Of course, next day, two of them turn over a German tourist and nick his wallet, but you can't have everything...

Enjoy it.

 

[Ex Member - Sidney Bounty]

Parents may even pay a bit extra for that!

Would i have to bring them back again


*not a huge fan of kids........*

But really, i hope they all have a great time