by Ian | Mar 22, 2013 | JOGLE
Saturday 9th of May saw the launch of Hampshire’s new Scout Ambassador, James Ketchell, with a ride around various Scout huts in Hampshire meeting fellow Scouts and undertaking a few challenges en route. We thought this would be a great opportunity for the JOGLE team to meet up, support James and gain some valuable experience of group riding.
We met up on the Friday evening for a productive team meeting and stayed the night at Ferny Crofts, 0630hrs on Saturday was the less than welcome alarm call and by 0800hrs we’d sorted our kit out, filled our faces with porridge and were ready to depart along with James, the Ferny Crofts Gold Team and the other Scouts who were supporting him. Our route took us from Ferny Crofts across the Hythe Ferry through Southampton and on to Testwood Lake, here we left James to one of his challenges and headed out to Lyndhurst and back where we were able to practice our group riding and change overs. It took us a little while to get ourselves organised but by the end of the loop we were beginning to get the hang of it.
We rejoined James and the rest of the riders and headed for Romsey Scout Hut for a very welcome lunch, from there we headed to Chandlers Ford, then on to Whiteley and eventually ended up at Lyons Copse where the ride finished with tea and cakes! We covered around 60 miles over the course of the day, met some great people and ate some lovely food. As our first training ride together it was very successful and helped to iron out some potential issues, we’re now looking forward to our next group session in the Lake District, bring on the hills!
More photos from the day can be found on James’ Flikr page here
by Ian | Mar 20, 2013 | JOGLE
And… We made it into the Romsey Advertiser…. I spot, Alan, Craig, Chris, Smudge and the side of Toms head.
by Ian | Feb 18, 2013 | Training, Trip Report
Every February half term HSX head of to Scotland for a winter skills week and this year is no exception…. We’ve had this great photo sent down for us all to enjoy what they are…. Just a bit jealous as I right this in Southampton… 🙂
by Ian | Feb 1, 2013 | Trip Report
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 like all Scout huts seemed to come out of the same mould (picture a scout hut, it looked like that).
Saturday morning after an epic breakfast and a Mountain Rescue lecturette from Richard Batstone the Nepal team headed out for an overnighter starting from Two Bridges very close to Dartmoor Prison, which looks very oppressive from the outside. They were heading North for a few kilometres before camping out overnight.
The Bursars went on some Micro Navigation Skills Training with Dave, Rich Brimelow & Chris Laws. The rest of us headed up to Okehampton camp to take in the scenic North Moor.
Sunday we swapped over and met the Nepal team from their very wet overnight camp, luckily only one tent got flooded throughout the night, unluckily it was the leaders tent!!! Bad Luck chaps…
All in all a good weekend, thanks to Steve Knaggs for organising..
by Ian | Nov 9, 2012 | Event Report, News, Team HSX, Video
Our very own Lucky CFO Alan Braithwaite went out into the New Forest yesterday with two other lucky readers of Trail Running Magazine, the Editor & a photographer to do an article for next autumns edition of Trail Running Magazine.
We can ensure you it will be worth a read.
