--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DB500000 Date: 07/02/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 09:46pm \/To: RENOUT MARTENS (Read 3 times) Subj: Introducing myself On 20 Jun 96, Renout Martens wrote to All about Introducing myself... Hello Renout, RM> Wel, you are very lucky I write you. Because I am a scout from RM> Holland. I'm living in Lochem ( a little place far away from you ). Well, greetings from England. Nice to hear from somewhere that's not America for a change, after all this is meant to be an /international/ echo! I've been to Holland - but that was only on a package holiday when I was bout 10 years old, so I didn't get to see much of the actual country :-( RM> I do hope to hear from you soon. I wonder how many people in the world RM> read my messages! Me, for starters! RM> I am a member of scout-group 'G.O.G. what says Graaf Otto Groep and I RM> am the leader of a group girlscoutes. I'm a Venture Scout in the Icenie Venture Unit, Suffolk, England. As a freindly matter of interest, would you like to swap group badges? David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk, PGP key available. ... Preserve wildlife - pickle a hedgehog. --- RA 2.50+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.12 * Origin: ByteSize BBS - 0178 747 6487 - Halstead, Essex UK - (2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DB500001 Date: 07/02/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 09:46pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: The hike from HELL! Hello All, I've just come back from a weekend hike up on the Brecon Beacons (where he SAS go training). It was pretty... what can I say?... bad? We were two hours late getting to the campsite the first evening, and thus only got 3 hours sleep before we had to set off. The team I was in then got lost on the way to the first checkpoint, and ended up 2 hours late getting to that as well! People began to get seriously knackered on the way to the second checkpoint - we had a steep hill to climb carrying all our euipment, and had to struggle to stay upright in the seriously stiff wind that was trying to blow us down the side of the hill again. Lunch was spent chasing off sheep who kept trying to eat our food. We then found a note from the organisers saying that due to our 2 hour lateness, we were now too far behind to finish all the checkpoints in time, o we were to head stright to the second camp - a long, dull hike along a grey rocky road that made your feet ache like anything. When we got to the campsite, we found it was situated on an old railway - rock solid ground with lush rass growing over the top, near a resivoiur. What this meant is that we couldn't get the tent pegs in the ground any further that a centimeter or two and that there were swarms of midges to eat us alive. Anyway, the food we had so painstakingly lugged over the hills was brought out, at which point people declared they weren't hungary/didn't like the food, so most of it was wasted. Some of us me included) then went to bed - only to be woken up at half past 1 in the orning to the sound of one of the members from our groups other team spewing up outside, then collapsing on to a tent - he'd had a bit too much to drink down the local pub. He ended up passed out outside for the rest of the night as no one wanted him in their tent. In the morning we got off an hour late due to n alarm clock malfunction. We set off without the drunk member of the other team, who was still barley concious. We left him at the campsite, where he was picked up by a seriously angry leader later. We then had another long, dull hike, mostly along a perfectly straight disused railway line with rubble scattered along it that made your feet ache even more that the day before. Fortunatly, we made good time that day (we even ran part of the route with full packs - very macho :-) ) and ended up at the finish on time. Unsuprisingly, we lost the trophy we had won last year. And then, we got lost on the way home as well - something went wrong with communications and we ended up driving around Birmingham for quater of an hour and loosing contact with the car containing all our euipment, which eventually arrived home half an hour late. But anyway - we had fun (and the view from Pen Y Fan was pretty cool (in both meanings of the word!) too :-) ) A couple of things I thought of on the way round: What's the best way to estimate how far you have walked? Is there some ort of gizmo you can make/buy cheaply that will calculate how far you've walked? How do you make this "Jerky" stuff? I understand it's strips of dried meat - some of that would have gone down well halfway round, I've had enough Mars bars to last a life-time... David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk, PGP key available. ... Go on, jump. 100,000 lemmings can't ALL be wrong. --- RA 2.50+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.12 * Origin: ByteSize BBS - 0178 747 6487 - Halstead, Essex UK - (2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBA00000 Date: 07/06/96 From: MILTON STEPHENS Time: 10:48am \/To: LINDA PELKY (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Girl Scouts ͵rom: Linda Pelky͵ime: 06-24-96 21:25:25ͻ Hello, I am a Cadette and Senior Girl Scout leader in Yucca Valley California.I am new to the BBS. I have been going through the public messages and I don'tseem to find anything regarding Girl Scouts. If there is anyone out thereinterested in conversing about Girl Scouts, please let me know. P.S. If anyoneknows about any good fund raising ideas, please let me know. I am tired of carwashes and bake sales. P.P.S. Also good ideas for service projects would be appreciated. Ľ Linds, I am the SysOp of "The Scouting BBS", have been looking for anything about "Girl Scouts" for some time now. It seems that those that are in "Girl Scouts" are not into E-Mail. In the 3 years on-line I have run across a fue "Girl Scouts" on-line. I am trying to get the "Girl Scouts to use "The Scouting BBS" here in Houston, Texas. But nothing as of yet on that, and also like to have "Girl Scout" Files to place on line. If you know of any, let me know and thanks for your time. ]\/[ilton * SFEMB 0.47 [TS80084] | A Girl Scout's duty is to be useful & help others * BBS TCode: 343AR --- FreeMail 1.10 alpha-3 * Origin: The Scouting BBS * Houston, Tx. USA * 713 649-8824 (1:106/8824) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBC00000 Date: 07/06/96 From: DAVID PHILLIPS Time: 05:39am \/To: RENOUT MARTENS (Read 3 times) Subj: HI Hi Renout: Welcome to the bbs. I am a Scouter from the United States. We are located in Walnut Creek, California (23 miles from San Francisco). I hope you enjoy the bbs and I hope you use it a lot. Yours in Scouting, David S. Phillips --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Port Chicago's Loading Dock - 510-676-5359 (1:161/204) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBC00001 Date: 07/07/96 From: LORNE WHITE Time: 12:49am \/To: SHIRLEY BILINSKI (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Good Old Niagara! This message is a reply to a message originally posted by SHIRLEY BILINSKI to LORNE WHITE on 06-27-96 : SB>Hi Lorne White SB> SB>This really has nothing to do with CJ but when I saw the name Port SB>Colborne I got to feel a little home sick I am from Welland it's SB>just a jump and a howler from Welland my home town. I grew up there SB>and when my husband relocated with his job 22 years ago (was to be SB>temporary) yea right Guess what I'm still here. There is nothing SB>like the Niagara Region. My family is still there my sister lives in SB>P.C. and also my inlaws. What is your maiden name? your sister's name? your in-laws? SB>My Dad at one time was a Lock Master at SB>Lock 8 on the Welland Canal (once the longest lock in the world!) When was that? I was a flagman on Bridge 13 in Welland in 1964 as a summer job (made $1.78/hr which went up to $1.88 over the summer!). SB>Did you get to see the Rose Parade this year in Welland I understand Didn't work out to be in Welland this year, but you're right - it's a great parade.... SB> Is this the week-end for the Heritage SB> Festival out by the lake I know we were home last summer when it was "Canal Days" in Port Colborne happens on the holiday weekend about the first of August each year, and has a lot going on at the Museum/Library plus street dance & sales on West Street by the 3 canals. What are you doing in Scouting now in Holland Landing? Lorne White, Patrol Counsellor, 1st Sherkston Troop Port Colborne District, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Another World,Niagara South ON CDA,905-871-9502 (1:247/300) (1:247/300) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBD00000 Date: 07/04/96 From: JOHN LANGFIELD Time: 11:57am \/To: DAVID HICKS (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: The hike from HELL! Hi David, It sounded like you have been through a war zone. Did anything go right on your walk? You can buy a thing called a Pedometer which detects the jerks you do when you walk. So it counts the number of paces you make. | _ |_ ._ 2:250/215.0 Fidonet -+ john@arcticbb.demon.co.uk +- \_|(_)| || |o 7:44/102.0 Riscnet -+ PGP Public key available +- --- FidoArm 1.10 (8 Apr 96) * Origin: Prestonet BB (+44-1772-612462) 10pm to 7am Everynight 2:250/215.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBD00001 Date: 07/08/96 From: ANDREW DOWIE Time: 04:16pm \/To: JEREMY DENNIS (Read 3 times) Subj: Newsletters * In a message originally to ALL, JEREMY DENNIS said: JD>Hi! I write the monthly newsletter for my troop & I was JD>wondering if JD>other troops had newsletters and would like to share JD>information on JD>design, fonts, logos, programs, & graphics. Ours is made on JD>WordPerfect for Windows 6.1 on 8.5 X 14 paper. It is a JD>tri-fold with JD>one "page" like a two inch wide bookmark. The other two JD>pages are JD>equal & make an 8.5 X 11 sheet without it. I look forward to JD>any JD>replys! That sounds like a great idea! I wanted to put out something like that, but we don't have the budget for that in our troop. In WP, you use the brochure-type of newsletter? ... How do you make Windows faster? Throw it harder! --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: The Staff Room BBS, Tecumseh, ON 519-979-4208 (1:246/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBD00002 Date: 07/07/96 From: ROBIN CLAY Time: 08:35pm \/To: DAVID HICKS (Read 3 times) Subj: The hike from HELL! Hello David ! -=> 02-Jul-96 21:46:52, you to us All DH> I've just come back from a weekend hike up on the Brecon Beacons DH> (where the DH> SAS go training). It was pretty... what can I say?... bad? ^^^ I winced all through your message ! It sounds rather like what my son went through a few weeks ago, on Dartmoor, at the end of his 6-weeks basic training at BRNC, Dartmouth. They had 80-lb packs, and they had to pitch camp - and an hour later, the army attacked ! They had to strike camp, and hustle off to another campsite five miles away, and then pitch camp again. An hour later, the army attacked. Etc., etc., etc. ! for four days and three nights, they had no more than an hour's continuous sleep. Map-reading in the dark, etc. He said the lingering effect on his toes was VERY strange, from "tabbing" at speed, especially downhill, with that weight of pack. Regards -- Robin --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Just a hundred miles from the first Church at Antioch (2:250/410.32) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBE00000 Date: 07/08/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 08:50pm \/To: VINCENT LAWLOR (Read 3 times) Subj: Scouting Ireland On 24 Jun 96, Vincent Lawlor wrote to All about Scouting Ireland... Hello Vincent, VL> I`m a Venture Scout based in Ireland. Down in the South East in a place VL> called Wexford. I'm a Venture Scout based in England. I'm from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (in East Anglia, the bit that bulges out of the east side of England). VL> There are only 6 members in the Venturer section so far but we are VL recruiting new members as I ...type!!!! We have 8 at the moment I think (it's kind of variable), that seems to be about average for a Venture group. Sadley I'm not going to be around a lot when I clear off to University at the end of the summer holidays. VL> We have all the sections in our unit from cubs right up to the Venturers. Us too. We used to have one of the largest Scout groups in the country a few years ago, but it's gone down a bit now. So, what sort of thing does your Venture unit get up to on an average meeting, then? We've just spent an evening making sighns for a forthcoming carwash we're doing to raise funds. We keep trying to think of something else to do to raise funds, but we still just keep doing carwashes. David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk, PGP key available. ... Famous last words: What bus? --- RA 2.50+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.12 * Origin: ByteSize BBS - 0178 747 6487 - Halstead, Essex UK - (2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: DBE00001 Date: 07/08/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 08:50pm \/To: JOEY DANIELEWICZ (Read 3 times) Subj: The Hike from Hell * Reply to msg originally in INTERNET E-Mail On 04 Jul 96, J6CHIP@aol.com wrote to david hicks about Your message about "The Hike from Hell"... Hello Joey, J6> I'm a scout in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. who read your message about J6> your hike from Hell on a BBS on my side of the pond. I was wondering, J6> what you did, the hike, was it kinda of a compiton with other group of J6> scouts, or what? Indeed it was - Drakes Challange it was called. Basiclly several Venture groups from out area went up to the Brecon Beacons for a hike. You get marked on things like navigation, preparedness, equipment, etc. Needless to say, we lost, which means we had to give back the trophy we one last year :-( We'll get it back /next/ year though! J6> And what you said in the last part of the message, J6> about the jerky, and the gizmo to figure how far you watch. The jerky J6> part, all it is, really, is any kind of dried meat, chicken, beef, and J6> other kinds. Making it at home, all you need is a dehydrator, some J6> sauce for the meat, and spice for flavor. And you have jerky. What's a "dehydrator"? Could you use an oven, and simply cook the meat until it sort of goes stiff? What do you do with the sauce/spice - do you stick it on the meat before you dry it out, or afterwards? What sort of sauce do you use do you have a recipie? J6> About telling how far you walked, you can buy a little pedometer. J6> There small boxes about the size of a beeper or a pager, or what ever J6> you call them, some with analog displays, others with digital, with a J6> spring in it, and some how it jumps or swings to count as a step. Just J6> walk a kilometer (mile here) and see how many steps it took, and then J6> you use that as a indicator for how far you walk on longer hikes. I J6> don't know why you wouldn't have heard of it, I've seen a couple around. The ones I've seen didn't work very well - they never seem to be set up right. I was wondering if there were any devices that could actually count the distance you walk. Maybe there isn't, then. Hmm. 'll have to see if I can make one... David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk, PGP key available. ... 1 1 was a racehorse, 2 2 was 1 2. 1 1 1 2 races, and 2 2 1 1 2. --- RA 2.50+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.12 * Origin: ByteSize BBS - 0178 747 6487 - Halstead, Essex UK - (2:257/125)