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Summer 2008
Here is what we have done this term
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Thursday
10th April
2008 : Getting Fit for the Summer
This meeting was about checking out your personal level of
fitness, for those going to Kanderseg. Remember we will be doing some
adventurous activities when we are there and it is everyone's
responsibility to ensure tht they are up to the challenge. Results are
detailed below with targets to be added!
Name
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pulse
before
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pulse
after
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pulse
after rest
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press ups
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sit
ups
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balance
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the
plank
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E
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44
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108
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80
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15
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42
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30
secs
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4
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R
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80
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108
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84
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11
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32
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30
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1
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L
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80
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140
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108
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6
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11
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30
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8
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D
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92
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124
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100
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5
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35
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11
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9
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N
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80
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156
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86
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11
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40
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30
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6
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M
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31
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5
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10
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DI
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60
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104
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76
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3
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24
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30
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7
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LC
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60
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5
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31
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13
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1
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J
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60
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8
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32
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5
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1
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MH
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72
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120
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92
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8
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30
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19
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5
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Friday 18th April
2008 : Night Hike
We met at Flotterstone and hiked over to Bonaly, where we spent the night.
Thursday 24th April
2008 : Fire-raising
We met at Bonaly and lit some fires…
Sunday 27th April
2008 : Abseiling down a Munro
The
Explorers rolled up between 10:30 and 11:00 to find that Davy and Mike
were still setting up the abseil ropes. Alan got us all organised with
helmets and climbing harnesses and soon Davy was down the rope and
giving us our briefing. One drop was a little longer than the other but
the average drop was taken as 20 metres, which meant that we had to do
a total of fifty abseils between us.
We queued up and it was almost like a conveyor belt. The majority of
Explorers managed to do somewhere between three and five drops and in
the end, Alan announced that there was one further drop to do to
complete the thousand metres. Mop hit the ground (gently) and that was
it… except that Jacky said she would prefer to come down the rope
rather than the slippery track behind the rock face.
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So we managed a total of 1020 metres, which is equivalent to 3346 feet and the height of Ladhar Bheinn
in Knoydart - now there is a fine Munro! Thank you to Davy for
supervising the abseiling and to Lettie's dad, Mike, who manned the
other rope. |
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Thursday 1st May 2008 : May Day celebrations
There was no Morris dancing!
Thursday 15th May
2008 : Bowling?
There
was no meeting last week as we were meeting only fortnightly through
May because of exams. Tonight was planned for bowling at the Corn
Exchange.
Thursday 29th May
2008 : End of exams party
Were there games, food and drink?
30th-31st May
2008 : Camping at Meggernie
We camped and went for a day hike on Saturday.
Thursday 5th June
2008 : Micro-navigation
We met at Bonaly Country Park.
Thursday 12th June
2008 : Indoor climbing
We
met at Ratho Climbing Arena. Making use of recent climbing wall
authorisations, we were all able to climb nearly all the time and we
were knackered fairly quickly.
Thursday 19th June
2008 : Incident Hike
We
met at the entrance to Bonaly Country Park. Unfortunately, only one
Explorer showed up, so he went home and the leaders went to the pub!
Thursday 24th June
2008 : Last meeting of term
What did we do?
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