On the 18th and 19th December we braved the cold, the ice, and THE SNOW, for our first Explorer and winter camp.
On Saturday we set off from the hut to Kinver, when we arrived we found the whole site covered in snow and a HUGE hill to carry all the kit up. Our next tasks were to get the tents up and to start to find fire wood and to get the fire going. with everything ready at camp our thoughts turned to food (as always) so we walked into the town and found a shop to get everything we needed for a perfect Christmas dinner except they didn't have any CARROTS. So we headed back and got cooking, eventually everything was ready to be served everyone crowded round the dutch oven anticipating to find a perfectly cooked turkey when opened we found the complete opposite it wasn't just over cooked it had been destroyed, luckily everything else was cooked perfectly especially the cake. After dinner we sat round the fire for a while and then retired to the tens for a well deserved sleep.
After a very cold nights sleep we woke to find everything frozen from the ketchup and the milk to the gas. we managed to make a small fire but nowhere near big enough for breakfast so Skip did some negotiating with the group in the hut and they let us use their ovens to make breakfast, me and Rahul were given the responsibility to cook the breakfast while Tom, Reece, kisian and Jason were left to start putting away the tents, after breakfast we were officially invested into the group. Then we took on the task of getting all the kit down and into the minibus luckily we were going downhill this time . with now everything packed and ready all that was left to do was to get back home.
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| winter camp 2010 |
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