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Finally… It’s here….

This weekend we finally set off for John O’groats to start our seven day JOGLE epic… We’ll try and post twitter updates so look for #HSXJOGLE and if any of you, your friends or families want to donate, they can here…. https://mydonate.bt.com/events/hsxjogle Wish us luck…. teamHSX doing the JOGLE….

#HSXJogle – Easter Training in the Lakes

With it being Easter, HSX as always have headed to the Great Tower in the Lake District. This year as we’re doing the JOGLE in May, teamHSX JOGLE decided to make it a training weekend and to be honest, I’m pretty glad we did as it was a tough one.. Unfortunately out of the eight of us doing the JOGLE only five could make it to the Lake District (Dave, …Read More

January Training Weekend – Dartmoor

This year for our January Training Weekend saw us visit Dartmoor for the first time in a while for our ML focused weekend. The rain had been coming down hard all week, so expectation weren’t high for a sunny weekend in Devon. 23 of us travelled down (13 Nepal Expedition Team Members, 3 Ferny Crofts Bursars & 7 HSX Members) to be based out of the Tavistock Scout Hut which …Read More

Ad+Venture 2012 Trip Report

Day One The Bursars, Russ and Slattergator travelled up early Thursday in the Russ bus we left just before 5am!  The early start gave us an enjoyable afternoon walking up Skiddaw and then we found a little man with ice creams on the way down. Later in the day we met up with the other Torneo that contained the Nepal team plus Hannah, Besty and Chris Laws. That evening due …Read More

teamHSX on Atacama – All Done (& who won the prize pot)

So…… That’s it.. All done and dusted… And what an awesome experience/adventure we all had. I won’t bother putting a trip report up here, I think Chris’ blog updates and the awesome photos tell the story… However, I will put a couple of things on here. Firstly, I want to link you to one of the other runners post race thoughts… What a write up and he says it all …Read More

Malawi Expedition – Trip report

Below we have a few word from Expedition Member David Cribb. Pictures coming soon. Well, I think in general we had a pretty good expedition. Now that we?re all back in the UK and most of the group has gone back to work or college or school, we?re often seeing things that remind us of our time in Malawi, still making jokes made in Malawi and genuinely happy that we …Read More

Annual adventure weekend

Hampshire Scout Expeditions (HSX) would like to invite you to their annual Adventure Weekend! ? If you or members of your Explorer Scout Group are interested in learning more about HSX or would like to experience new activities it would be great if you could come along! ? The aim of the weekend is to teach you new skills, use the skills you already have and to work in a …Read More