Blisters....

Worth a try?!

Silk sleeping bag liners...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLACK-Single-Silk-Liner-Sleeping-Bag-Sack-Inner-Sheet-/290530744782?pt=UK_SportingGoods_SleepingBags_SM&hash=item43a4fb59ce

£5.99 on ebay...

They increase your sleeping bag warmth by a season. They claim around 5oC warmer!

Coming soon....

Training 30th - 31st May

And what was learnt?!

- think about joint support! Bring knee supports (i actually told them this earlier but no one believed me until we were out on devil's steps!)

- Poles! Needed! Take them

-Stick together and wait for people especially on hills for moral

- break boots in! except if your are fluky Jack and Callum!

- pack stuff in small dry bags for filling all the gaps

- put things in dry bags

- actually sleep in your sleeping bag and on your therma rest! 

- get a non leaking platypus and do it up or the water comes out!!!

- the alps are going to be high!!!

- buy more kit!

- mmm jet boil!

- all the suger in the world can not make up for a good nights sleep!

- rucksacks need fitting! They bite and leave a waist rash!!

- put sun tan lotion on your neck!!! (and preferably get a hat with a big brim!)

Plans for half term training

Right plans for the bank holiday

Meet at Mel's at 1pm on 30th May with ALL of your kit that you are taking to the Alps for the 2 weeks so that we can do a thorough kit check and you can get used to lugging it about. That afternoon we will go to The Purbecks and wild camp that night. We're gonna do the coastal path on Tues with a view to get back late on tues afternoon / eve. We can drop you back in Poole on the way back through

Get packing/shopping/gyming

:)

Naming and Shaming...

Right we are going in 9 weeks and we are still waiting for money and forms!!!!

We need money from

Laura - 1 payment
Jack - 1 payment
Adam - 2 payment
Faye - 1 payment
Ash and Callum £35 for first aid

Forms that we need

Jack - Code of Conduct and Parent Consent
Hannah - Gift Aid form

You are all officially rubbish!!!!!

Dates for your diary

Hi guys, hope the exams are going well so far...

Not long to go now... We are doing a practice on 30th-31st May where we are going to check kit then camp out at the Purbecks (more details to follow) and another practice on 17th-18th June so make sure you get the dates in your diary and sort out work and all your other lamo excuses!

9 weeks to go!!!!!

Adam's misconceptions!

I would just like to formally deny all mischief claims that Adam may have made about me! I mean come on... you all know me well enough! Would I do anything silly like that?!

I will accept full responsibility for sending Jack to find the hot water tap... I mean come on!  But as for any thing else...

I am a responsible grown up don't you know!