Highcliffe Scout Troop, Summer Camp 1991 [1 of 2]

This is one from the archives. Back in 1991 I ran Highcliffe Scout troop. We had a Summer Camp in the Lake District - for which we won a Cumbria Camping Award. This is the video of that camp taken in a time when Video Cameras were not that common. I was transferring old VHS tapes to DVD and decided to upload this as being of wider interest -- at least to those concerned ! Split into 2 as the full video is 18 mins. All of the Scouts here will now be in their late 20's or early 30's. Did Scouting have much benefit to them ? Well those few I know about from this video (you can guess who did what) are : Editting Ride BMX Magazine, DJ'ing in Birmingham, Running a Carphone Warehouse store, teaching at Harrow school, unemployed, teaching games, working in a Nuclear Power station, Ambulance Paramedic and RAF pilot. At least one served time. Who is here ? Robert Orchard, Leigh Mitchelmore, Andrew Howard, Mark Mitchelmore, Nick Bartlett, Steve Bancroft, Matt Tibbert, Daniel Hall, Tony Bancroft, Jon Lynch, William Buscall, Toby Cooper, Sam Dykes, Luke Stride, Martyn Jones, David Foskett, Steve Carter, Simon Trimnell, Paul White, Steve Mitchell, Greg Yonwin and Tim Martin. Leaders -- Robin Abbott, Pete Kingsley, Tony Cumes (the legendary), Nick Sheppard and Dave MacDonald-some of the time. Apologies for the editting - this is pretty much cutting edge for the time when PC Genlocks cost hundreds of pounds and pointing the camera at a photographs to get a still frame was the norm. This ...

A 12½ mile circular walk of the Coniston Fells in the Lake District including a wild camp (bivvy) on Wetherlam. The walk starts at the Walna Scar Road Car Park above Coniston. The walk visits all the main fells of the Coniston range including 7 Wainwrights; Wetherlam, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Grey Friar, Brim Fell, The Old Man Of Coniston and Dow Crag as well as a memorial to a World War Two Halifax bomber. The walk first headed north from the car park towards Crowberry Haws and then onto the Pudding Stone next to Low Water Beck at the entrance to Boulder Valley. From here the route heads north east along the flank of Grey Crag and then Kennel Crag before descending to Red Dell. From the valley of Red Dell the route basically headed east, straight up the flanks of Moor How before joining the path along the ridge towards Wetherlam. At Wetherlam we wild camped using our bivvy bags on an unbelievable March night with clear skies. The following day the route headed west towards Swirl How and then onto Great Carrs pausing at the memorial to the Halifax bomber of which debris can still be seen. From here the walk heads west again to the flat summit of Grey Friar before retracing the route back and then heading to Swirl Band following the ridge to Brim Fell and then The Old Man Of Coniston. The views west from here show the ridge of Dow Crag which is where the route then heads via Goat's Hawse. The Dow Crag ridge is an impressive walk with dramatic gullies leading down to Goat's ...