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)