Drum Corps is back........

The first Drum Corps meeting of 2014 is on Thursday January 9th - usual time, usual place!

Bowled over, blown away!

The term is over! 

Our last meeting will be on Thursday at 7:15pm at AMF Bowling Harlescott. No wind, no rain, no hills - time to chill and eat chips at Quasar and Bowling.

Please book a ticket as I need to confirm number and pay for you so they have enough lanes for us etc. Bring a few pennies for nachos and drinks... and bring your subs for this term (which were due in September!!!) if you haven't paid up yet!

We are doing quasar too as we need to be prepared for paintballing - from 1 January, we can do paintballing officially! Come with ideas for next term's prog for your prog planning sub-committee, but we do have to do an official paintball event!

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We should have a consent form for this as it is away from the hut...

... and as we are away from the hut I will have to insist on full explorer uniform so that I can spot you at a distance (although an equally recognisable silly hat would be an acceptable alternative (or flashing antlers or festive fingernails ... just so I can recognise you as one of us :D ))

Treasure under the misty moutains

Good night hike! And we found the treasure - they say you shouldn't publish pictures of where you found the cache but should walk a little way away to avoid it being a 'spoiler', but I think we'll get away with this one!

Spoiler alert!

The coin is from the US (OK you probably guessed!) and you can see where it has travelled by clicking the image

A hike.............

at night.  Wet and windy (that was Luke) but you made it. 

Nice to see AdventureTed is out of hibernation - confused as always poor bear!

Darkness - on the edge of Church Stretton

It's the night hike and logistical complexity! Book a ticket so I know who is going to be where... at least at the beginning!




We will meet at Church Stretton School at 7:30 so a bit sooner for those getting lifts, and aim to have arrived by 9:30 at the top of Jonathan's Hollow. Please contact me if you have problems getting to one of us, or the start and we will try and sort everyone out!
You also need to bring: warm clothes, full waterproofs, hike boots, compass, whistle, first aid kit, festive hat that covers the ears, emergency chocolate, A HEAD TORCH (yes - it's a night hike!), gloves, mobile phone, consent form, ... All the usual hikey stuff!

If you book a car place but need help to get to your seat, give us a call and we will sort it out...


If you get lost, we may not be able to sort it out... you may miss Christmas...

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Scouts with wind... clinging to the high ground

Wooo! Cling on to the rocks guys! Great hike last Sunday, and 'a bit breezy' says Richard!

Archery practice.......

Time for archery practice yet again!

We are at the Sundorne School http://www.sundorne-snr.shropshire.sch.uk/contact-sundorne-school.htm on Sunday 15th December between 2 and 4.  As always it is a drop in session with all equipment and instruction provided, cost is a very reasonable £2.

Call in and have a go if you have never shot before - it is great fun!

Magic (washing up dispensor) balls!

Ha! They worked! I was a bit worried when I saw all the bits of tools and electronics spread out, but explorers work much better than scouts, and I guess you were all paying attention and just teasing by pretending to be mucking about...
Magic!

hmmm... the video doesnt work quite so well - the iphone shutter speed is faster than your eye, and my night time canon shutter is slower than the eye! 

All part of my vague obsession with taking pictures in the dark...

The PIC chips are very flexible and you could use these to control xmas lights, or change the colour of the magic balls or be a mood light with a fade between colours! If you want to re-program your magicball, here's the program on the chip now - if you are interested I can email it to you and you can edit it, send to me, and I can reflash your PIC12F675 easily (or you can get a PICKIT1 programmer quite cheap). JAL is a free software language off the web to compile and create the hex files.

Magic balls!

Sciencey things with balls it says on the prog?
Please bring a packet of TicTacs, a 9v PP3 battery, a washing liquid ball dispensor, and 2 sheets of toilet paper... and we will see what we can do! (any similar clearish plastic ball will do...)

Nice!

Drum Corps cancelled!

Roger sends his apologies, but has had to cancel Drum Corp for Thursday 5th December as he has the flu.

fish face!

Remember to wear a fish that covers the ears!

The Scotland trip is ON!

If you are over 15 or have been on lots of the mountain group hikes and want to be a winter mountaineer, this is a great week away in the mountains. It is hoped that it will be winter conditions which means ice ax slides, crampons and haggis hunting!
I had a great time last time I went and it provides my fb profile pic to this day!
Let me know if you are interested and I can tell you a bit more about it! I will go if I can get time off work...!

Arenig Fawr - in search of the first snowball of winter!

It's set to get a dusting of the freezy white stuff this week so we may get to throw the first snowball of the season on Sunday 8 December! In any even this one looks like a nice short day's hike across some great high ground!
As usual we will have a slightly later start from somewhere nearer home - let me know if you are coming! (and if you are planning to come to Mongolia next summer, it would be good to see you getting prepared for our hikes in the high Altai Mountains! You really should come on the remaining hikes to get fit for the hills)