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The Rovers are the eldest group of scouts, they are 16-21 year old. We do rock climbing, canoeing, hiking, first aid and emergencies, backwoods (survival skills), pioneering, orienteering, map and compass work, camping and hostelling, but we do all these activities to a greater extent than the younger groups. We have our meetings on Monday nights from 8pm to 10pm.
Here is a calendar of all the things we intend to do soon.
March 1st, 2010
So tonight the Rovers were tasked with making a rope ladder out of nothing but rope, they decided that it would be much more fun to make a stretcher instead and they are basically the same thing anyway, right?!?
So with only a bag of ropes and their wits about them they began this terrifying and daunting task. I was on hand to provide them with useless advice and take embarrassing photos, which to be honest the three lads didn’t really seem to appreciate. Kevin doesn’t really like having his photo taken so on the right you will see the best one that I managed to get of him and below are the two Conors modelling the stretcher for you. As you can see it is very effective, as long as you don’t actually intend on moving the casualty anywhere.
All in all a good evening was had by all, although I have a suspicion that our stretcher did more damage than good, but i’m that all they needed were more people to carry it. The rest of the meeting was without incident, so that is all I have to say about Rovers and Stretchers.
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February 25th, 2010
Calling all Rovers, the national Rover team have set up a Rover blog and I thought you might be interested in checking it out.
I don’t know how often they update it but i’m sure it is worth keeping an eye on anyway.
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February 15th, 2010
This Saturday, Sunday and Monday we went to Lough Dan for a pioneering weekend. Pioneering is building things out of large wooden poles or spars and sisal. We built a cool bridge gateway thingy with platform. The weather was decent compared to what we expected. We only had light showers on the the Sunday night and a little frost and ice on the Saturday night. We all wished Emma happy birthday.So we made fire and did pioneering on saturday. Kevin burnt his tongue on the chicken soup at lunch. After chicken curry for dinner, we played texas hold ‘em poker. Tony learnt how to play slowly (by folding even when he had the best hand), Conor W didn’t have a chance and got knocked out in almost every game. We had Swiss roll birthday cake for Emma’s birthday. We turned in early that night because we were shattered from the days “work”.
We slept in the next morning, only to be awoken by Tony and Emma’s loud shouts. Breakie was corn flakes (from Lidl) and bread. We continued our pioneering projects and lit another fire.
The fire was built because we needed to heat the coals for the dutch oven, which we planned to cook out beef casserole in. The casserole took 6 hours to cook in the dutch oven, while waiting for dinner we finished. We played more poker and then goonie, and switch.
We slept in again on Monday morning. Packing and go home day. We packed everything up and went back to the den to dry the tents and gear in the hall. We tried washing the dutch oven out, but yeah, its still blackish.
Currently we are having a pancake eating competition. Conor has been in the lead consistently but our guest or “ringer”, David, did arrive late so we’ll have to see. Alex from explorers has also joined us for this auspicious occasion.
The finishing score is:
So the winner of the 2010 Pancake eating competition is Conor W, knocking the former leader out of first place. The very original quote form the winner was “em, no comment”, and from the runner-up and previous champ, David, was “I am not a quote”. The loser also insisted on being allowed to give a quote, so Alex said “Monkey banana face flamingo alright ice cream cone?”
So that is the end of the pancakes for this year be sure to join us again next year.
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November 23rd, 2009
Hello all this is Kevin from the rover section, just saying hi. Hope you all like the new site I sure do. We’ll have some photos of the investiture from Tony up soon. Some nice pictures of the bridge and people making their promise.
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