Gilwell Winter camp - Friday 11 January

We met at the church, loaded up and left.  The weather had looked bad, so we gave the parents all the boys shoes - making sure that they would only have their boots this weekend.  As this was now our fourth camp, we had intended to drive to the back of Gilwell - straight to the overflow car park.. but it was shut!  So we had to drive round to the entrance, which meant a very long crawl up Daws Hill to the entrance.  Once we got there, we decided to get the tractors to take our trailer up to our site (Ash and Ivor having already put the tents up Thursday night).  This meant that the Scouts didn’t have to walk their kit onto site.  The van was dropped off at the overflow car park (down by the golf course, and nowhere near the site!)The rain was not very heavy, but it was quite persistent, and the cold could be felt.  We left the boys to go to the Disco, whilst we went to register - what we hadn’t realised was that they had needed their wristbands to get into the disco… and we hadn’t issued them.  The night was a cold one…. so the Scouts didn’t sleep much.  I know this as they also decided that no one else would sleep much either….