Free camp in Snowdonia

The mountain group are having a leaders weekend in Snowdonia 7-9 June hiking, and said we could have a free camp with them so long as we help cooking, keeping it all tidy and looking after the place. 

It would mean not hiking whilst the leaders disappear into the rain and mist and basically chilling in Yr Hafod. All food, transport etc covered.

Sign up here if you want a free camp!

Shropshire Rifles

We will be part of Shropshire when we go to Bisley this year, and it is time to book our places in the Shropshire Rifles company (well it must be more than a squad now we have marksmen from across the county).

We will have a practice at my ranges at Leaton Hall (not the hut) from 8:00 to 9:30 (as usual) on Thursday May 23 (now that I have finally figured out when half term is!). I need your parents confirmation that you have permission and are legally entitled to use firearms - do not forget the form below! 

If there are issues printing your parents can handwrite a note confirming they give consent, not are not legally prohibited from using firearms, and giving an emergency contact.

My bad!

Ooops! Got half term date wrong! (I thought it seemed a short first half term but thought exams... Anyway - corrected timetable has swapped the rifle training and half term to their proper places - version on the blog below is now correct!

A Wild PROGRAMME Appeared!

Greetings!

As promised we have a Provisional Programme written for you to plan around. If you know you're unable to attend any meetings please let us know sooner rather than later so that if any nights are looking particularly empty we can consider rearrrangeing activities to suit those here .

16th May - Lazerquest
We'll be blogging about this in the next few days but please be prepared to be away from the hut and arrive at potentially different times.

23 May - Rifles
We'll be popping down to AL's house to get some practice in the run up to bisley
30 May Half Term - no meeting

6 Jun - DoE Training
An opportunity to pass on / learn from some of the skills and stories of hikes past, we'll be learning to pack light and effective and to cook some tasty lightweight meals, definitely one you won't want to miss.

8 -10 Jun - Snowdon Camp
You'll be trusted to take care of a scout hut by yourselves, cleaning up after the mountain group in exchange for a free camp.

13 Jun - Dodgeball / Trenches (Pending Authorisation)
If you can dodge (all of the things you throw at each other on a normal night) you can dodge a ball!
If dodgeball doesn't last the night we'll play trenches - a stealthy game involving disco lights and capture the flag.

20 Jun - Bridge Build / Splash Around (Pending Authorisation)
Get ready to get wet on this post exam pioneering challenge. You'll be using your knot tying skills, a lot of barrels, and logs to build a continuous pontoon as far across Lake Clive as you can. Get to the other side for a prize or, if you don't make it across, do some cool tricks into the lake on what we hope will be a warm last evening of spring.

27 Jun - Summer Christmas BBQ
We'd like to introduce you to a PGL staff tradition, we celebrate anything that happens during our shutdown (Mid Nov - Late Jan) exactly half a year out. Therefore we're going to have a Half Christmas get together. Please don your best Jumpers, deck yourself in tinsel or just wear some Christmas tree earrings to our BBQ / Party.

5-7 July - Bickley Camp (TBC)

11 July - Paddling the Shrewsbury Loop (Pending)

18 July - Skills Evening

25 July - Bounce Below
This will be our season finale, a trip across the border to the land of sheep on trampolines. Pretty self explanatory really, checkout

Light fantastic

As you planned we will kick off term with a laser battle at Rednal - its close to exams so we want you to get a good nights sleep so we will meet at Rednal Laser HQ at 6:45 for a 7pm start. We finish at 8pm. (OK that was as close as they could do to our normal times!)

Please bring consent form and dress rugged!

(Oo! A shiny new form with the new logo!)

Back at the hut

We're back! At the hut at the usual time... but it might be wet out so come waterproofed :)

Here comes the sun!

Well, here comes the summer anyway...

But it is still only the first week back at school so you are all busy planning your revision plans and much too distracted for explorers I guess... So our first meeting back will not be until next week, on Thursday 9 May.

Meanwhile, for those keen to get into the hills and also get a JOTT badge (if Richard gives them out when he gets them!) we have a new booking approach for SBSMG - designed by us so we cannot complain!

Follow this link to book your trip for Saturday the 11 May and it will auto-be your consent form! Simples!