11/10/2026
Our first overnighter of the term - a
Cheeky camp at Thornthwaite. Sad to say, it was Marcus’s last camp with us as he turns 18 next month. Marcus has been an absolute stalwart over the past few years, turning up to every event that he possibly could and taking up every opportunity we offered. We’ll miss you Marcus. Good luck with whatever the future holds.
We like doing single night camps because they are quite chilled, give everyone a chance to interact and allow those with jobs/sports commitments etc, the flexibility to come and go as they please.
Dutch oven cooking on open fires, tents,
hammocks, bivvy bags - whatever you fancy.
The new hammock underquilts were successful, and needed as the temperatures dropped.
Five Dutch oven meals were cooked - the veggie rice dish, sausage meatballs and beans, chicken and broccoli orzo and taco mince with rice were a huge success. The chicken and chorizo jambalaya, however,
was more chicken and charcoal 😳. We did tell them that the chorizo needs to be closely supervised!
Another great camp with lots of new members. Thanks to Paul, Matthew and Richard for camping over!
Just a few pictures so you can see what was happening.
Oh, and they managed to catch the aurora in the dark skies of Nidderdale!
