by Ian | Aug 3, 2010 | Peru 2010
Scouts from across Hampshire will be embarking on the adventure of a lifetime on Tuesday 3rd August. This will be one of the largest overseas expeditions from Scouts in Hampshire this year. Their 6 weeks expedition will include trekking, undertaking challenging activities and working in a remote central region orphanage.
The party of 14 Scouts and 4 adult volunteer Scout Leaders will be trekking along the historic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, a World Heritage Site. They will take part in a variety of different adventurous activities from hot air ballooning to white water rafting. They will then undertake a vital community project at an orphanage set up to cater for abandoned children, to enhance their living conditions, improving sanitation and creating an outdoor playground.
Expedition Leader, Dave King, a Scout Leader, said "The Scouts have had an intensive 18 month training programme leading up to this unique expedition. They have been working hard fundraising not only for themselves, but also to help buy materials to enhance living conditions at the orphanage. The orphanage was set up for abandoned children and we want to help improve their living conditions and to create an outdoor playground for them to enjoy”.
Katie Bass, from Hook, said "This is a huge adventure for me. Being a Scout has given me this opportunity of going to the other side of the world to have a great time and help children less fortunate than me".
by Ian | Jul 30, 2010 | Peru 2010
Peru Patrols Announced
The Team will be split into 4 patrols for the expedition, Condor’s, Puma’s, Owl Monkeys and Llama’s. They will all have a leader as the parol mentor to speak to if they have any concerns or worries during the trip.
They will be as follows:
Condors
Dave King
Doug Bennett
Will Farmer
Katie Bass
Bertis Walsh
Puma’s
Rich (Bram)
Joe Bampton
Andrew Wride
James Craven
Owl Monkeys
Alex Porter
Joe Doherty
Katrina Bennett
Ross Morley
Jon Dandridge
Llama’s
Phil Nutbeam
Becky Rowe
Matt K
Steven W
by Ian | Feb 23, 2010 | Peru 2010
We are pleased to announce 2 new sponsors who are kindly offering their support to our Peru team. Many thanks for your generosity.
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by Ian | Feb 23, 2010 | Peru 2010, Trip Report
The annual HSX Scotland trip this year had 35 people in total attending which included the Peru team as part of their UK based training for the expedition this summer.
This year was full of snow and cold conditions as low as -12ºc, The first two days of the trip were filled with essential winter mountaineering skills to help them get through the week. The third and fourth day was spent building a snow hole from scratch then testing them out by cooking and sleeping in them for a night. The fifth day of the trip was another practical training day on snow and ice climbing techniques that were then put into good use over the next couple of days as the Peru team leaders took them climbing in breathtaking Scottish scenery.
Over the week HSX members climbed Ben Macdui (1,309m) and Cairngorm (1,245m). Also people went Skiing, Dry tool climbing, swimming completed Mambo’s Direct and visited John O’ Groats.
By Phil Nutbeam
by Ian | Jan 31, 2010 | Expeditions, Peru 2010, Training, Trip Report
HSX set off for North Wales on Friday 22nd Jan, we made good time at untill we arrived and couldn’t find the keys. An opportunity for a quick doze while Dave set off to Anglesey to find them.
I had drawn the short straw with the bursars and ended up with the sofa for sleeping on – wish it had a guard rail as I fell off both nights!
After getting to bed at 02:30, Saturday saw us get up early and after breakfast two groups set off for the Ogwen Valley, one heading up through the Devil’s Kitchen and the other doing Heather Terrace on Tryfan, whilst a third group headed for Snowdon. We hiked most of the day on the hills managing to find some patches of snow, for quite a few of the Peru team it was the first time in Snow boots.
In the evening we headed back to the lodge in Capel Curig for a tasty evening meal prepared by Brimlow and helpers, most of them crashed early as I tried to re acquire the sofa!
Sunday saw the Peru team head off for PT round the Lake at Snowdon, another team went off for a hike up Moel Siabod, a few of us went to find some bouldering but it was too wet so ?Rhys and I went off to Plas Y Brenin the outdoor centre to do some indoor bouldering whilst Besty and burser Tom went for a run up tryfyn.
After Lunch and a clear up we left for Hampshire. A good fun weekend enjoyed by all.
Mark How
HSX set off for North Wales on Friday 22nd Jan, we made good time at untill we arrived and couldn’t find the keys. An opportunity for a quick doze while Dave set off to Anglesey to find them.
I had drawn the short straw with the bursars and ended up with the sofa for sleeping on – wish it had a guard rail as I fell off both nights!
After getting to bed at 02:30, Saturday saw us get up early and after breakfast two groups set off for the Ogwen Valley, one heading up through the Devil’s Kitchen and the other doing Heather Terrace on Tryfan, whilst a third group headed for Snowdon. We hiked most of the day on the hills managing to find some patches of snow, for quite a few of the Peru team it was the first time in Snow boots.
In the evening we headed back to the lodge in Capel Curig for a tasty evening meal prepared by Brimlow and helpers, most of them crashed early as I tried to re acquire the sofa!
Sunday saw the Peru team head off for PT round the Lake at Snowdon, another team went off for a hike up Moel Siabod, a few of us went to find some bouldering but it was too wet so ?Rhys and I went off to Plas Y Brenin the outdoor centre to do some indoor bouldering whilst Besty and burser Tom went for a run up tryfyn.
After Lunch and a clear up we left for Hampshire. A good fun weekend enjoyed by all.
Mark How
by Ian | Nov 5, 2009 | Peru 2010, Training, Trip Report
HSX do the Brecons, by Chris Slater
Last weekend saw HSX head off to the Brecon Beacons for a fun filled weekend out in the hills! The weekend was a really busy one with 31 people heading up including the Peru Team and Mark and David from the Malawi team. Staying for the first time at the Glasbury-on-Wye Scout Hut, the HSX members slept inside on the floor of the hut next to the fire evicting the Peru team outside to sleep under canvas in the garden.
Saturday saw us divide into 5 teams, Smudge, Brimelow, Christian and Batstone headed off to do some climbing leaving the remaining 4 groups to tackle the Brecon Beacons. Starting from the village of Pencelli my group consisting of Lawso, Rhys, Hayley and Bursar Anton also joined by Dave?s half of the Peru team we scaled the dizzy heights of Fan-Y-Big, Cribyn and Pen-Y- Fan. The remaining two groups started the same route from the opposite end with the aim to meet half way to swap keys for the Tornados. After a great start of Lawso leaving his walking boots in the Tornado heading to the opposite end of our route we were soon on our way. Part way round we stopped for a half hour of kite flying shenanigans in the relatively blowy conditions (with Dave narrowly avoiding slamming the kite into the back of Anton?s head!!!). On our descent from Fan-Y-Big we met the other two groups swapping keys and hearing of Bursar Tom leaving his waterproof jacket in his tent (Muppet!). The day was topped off with a quick trip into Brecon for some QSH?s before heading back to the hut to cook dinner (we missed not having Russ!!!).
After dinner we were entertained by Everest Dave attempting a first attempt at traversing the wooden beams in the roof, complete with thermarest crash mats below for safety naturally. Not to lose face Bram soon scrambled up to have a go followed by Rhys, Bertie and McNab. Being Halloween we brought the obligatory pumpkin to carve, I took it upon myself to handle this important job, but was soon relegated to scooping out the insides, Bram just couldn?t stand seeing someone else having fun!!!
Sunday morning started off very wet, but in HSX we?re not put off by a bit of rain so we headed back out into the hills, with one group off to practice micro-nav, another group off for a 10km run and the Peru team off to do some PT after an epic drive to get to a waterfall. Luckily my group, off to do micro-nav manage to stay dry with the rain stopping as soon as we got to our destination. We all reconvened at the hut shortly before lunch to tidy up and have some grub before hitting the M4 for the homeward journey.
Oh and if Katie is reading this I?m still waiting for my cup of Tea!!!
