Being Prepared For Winter Camping Fun
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While much of the United Kingdom came to a grinding halt due to the unusually severe winter weather a group of 2500 tough explorer scouts, aged between ten and eighteen, have just enjoyed a weekend of outdoor winter camping fun.
If you, like me, love your warm comfortable bed, especially when its cold and wintery outside, then you too will be wondering why anyone would want to sleep outdoors while there is snow on the ground.Being prepared, as the old scout motto says, is clearly the answer when it comes to winter camping. This means having the right camping equipment and some good quality, warm outdoor clothing and plenty of layers.
Organisers had laid on no less than 70 adventurous outdoor activities for the boys and girls to have a go at over the weekend. They had the chance to warm up with a little trampolining and have a go at zorbing, abseiling, orienteering and, of course, some snowboarding.
Making certain that the scouts were all safe was a key factor. Organisers carried out risk assessments regarding the journey to the Gilwell campsite in East London as well as the dangers of sleeping out in freezing conditions.
To keep warm at night, when temperatures plummeted to minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit), the hardy scouts doubled up on sleeping bags and squeezed together with fellow scouts to share body warmth.
When I spoke to a few of these hardy young scouts they told me that the way to stay warm in these freezing temperatures was to wear plenty of warm layers. They told me that they were padded out with no less than 7 layers, at least two pairs of gloves and very thick, warm winter socks. They also recommended wearing a very warm hat as a great deal of body heat can be lost from the head.
Although I could see that these boys and girls were clearly having a wonderful time in the winter snow I was glad to get home to my warm, centrally heated house and to sleep in my comfortable bed rather than wrapped in sleeping bags in a field somewhere in East London.
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Mark
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