Category: Training

  • The Torch Relay – #HSXLockdownOlympics

    The Torch Relay – #HSXLockdownOlympics

    As all good Olympics start with a torch relay, that is exactly what we are doing.

  • Lakes Adventure 2019

    Lakes Adventure 2019

    This is a long report, but then again, we had lots of adventures! Probably best to grab yourself a cuppa first… Well what an absolute scorcher of a glorious bank holiday weekend that was! Over Easter weekend, 30 Scouts, Explorers, Network and Scout Active Support members from Hampshire Scouts made the annual pilgrimage to Great…

  • Sign up for the Lakes Adventure 2018 is Open!!

    Sign up for the Lakes Adventure 2018 is Open!!

    Calling all Explorer and Network Scouts! Interested in a long weekend of climbing, ghyll scrambling (Abseiling waterfalls and jumping and sliding into pools of water) and hiking in the Lake District? ( Here’s a video of last year!)  Between Thursday 29th March -Monday 2nd April in the Easter Holidays Hampshire Scout Expeditions are running a trip to the Lake District. We will be staying…

  • Training Round Up: HSXPat2017 Part 2

    Training Round Up: HSXPat2017 Part 2

    With a new year came a chance for another year of adventures- this is 2017 so far…. January- Dartmoor The weekend started with a drive down to a scout hut in Dartmoor. We were very excited to receive our first Patagonia team kit. We were each given a light blue t-shirt which had our Patagonia…

  • 2016 Training Round Up : HSXPat17

    2016 Training Round Up : HSXPat17

    Below is a little debrief of all the 2016 training we have done so for Patagonia 2017- Our 4 week expedition to Chilean Patagonia over Christmas and New Year 2017. We hope you Enjoy! June- Ferny Crofts This training weekend was to introduce ourselves and do some team building. We started the weekend by developing our…

  • It’s A Good Day To Have Great Adventures

    It’s A Good Day To Have Great Adventures

    This Easter 47 Explorers, Network and Scout Active Support members returned to Great Tower for an amazing weekend walking, climbing and ghyll scrambling in the Lake District. Arriving on Thursday, some at a respectable time, others at 1:30 am after getting lost near (not in) a ford, everyone’s beds were calling for a good night’s…

  • Sign up for The Lakes Ad+Venture 2017 is open!!

    Sign up for The Lakes Ad+Venture 2017 is open!!

    Hello One and All! The time has come to sign up for The Lakes 2017!! Trip takes place from Thursday 13th April- Monday 17th April, aiming to leave Ferny Crofts @ 6pm We will be staying in indoor accommodation at Great Tower SAC and will have a packed weekend of walking, climbing and Ghyll Scrambling.…

  • 30 Spectacular Years of Adventure

    30 Spectacular Years of Adventure

    ” I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.” “I should think so- in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things! Make you later for dinner, I can’t think what anybody sees…

  • Am I fit enough for an expedition?

    Am I fit enough for an expedition?

    If any member of HSX were given £1 for every time somebody asked the question, “Am I fit enough to join one of your expeditions?”  or questioned whether they are the right person for “that kind of adventure” I think we would all be in a position to quit our jobs, buy a round the…

  • Christmas Weekend 2014

    Christmas Weekend 2014

    As is tradition for HSX, December saw the group once again converge on Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre for our annual Christmas celebrations. Saturday morning saw participants divide into 6 teams for the adventure race, a 3 hour orienteering race across the New Forest with teams trying to gain as many points as possible. This…