Ash Green’s cluttered little mind

Just back from an excellent weekend in the Lakes. Up at Rydal Hall to do some developoment work with our existing Explorer Scout Leaders – covered some good ground, had some excellent in-depth discussions and evan resurrected concepts from Venture Scout days which we’ve proved have a place today!
Evan better than this (plus the laugh & the food), the hydro-powered bunkhouse seemed to be having some issues, and the power kept cutting off. In order to keep us sweet, we got free upgrades from the bunkhouse (atmospheric but draughty, cheapo accomodation), into the main hall (twin and family rooms, complimentary brew making stuff, decent showers, library, discussion rooms, copies of the Times etc). Not bad eh! We managed not to pick the lock into the Bar, but did make the most of our stay there
It got evan better when at the Badger bar on Saturday night (round the corner), the owner let us know that the Hall and the pub were the only properties in the whole Ambleside region that didn’t have their gas cut off – the Gas main in town was having major problems.

On Sunday the rest of the team were going to have an easier day, so I did a solo stomp round the Fairfield Horseshoe.  5 hrs door to door, but was breaking trail in crap snow all the way up – drifing had lost the path, so lots of fresh damp snow at knee depth to slow me down.  About 15′ vis on top, glad that I bought a new compass yesterday!