It is written by myself, Mike Halliwell, and obviously provides a leaders eye view. There are also reports from two of the scouts this year, which give an interesting view of their experience.

This year saw another return visit to possibly our favourite site of High Arnside, which is on top of the hill between Skelwith Bridge and Consiton. The field, known as Stone Chair Hill, is next to High Arnside Tarn which is very convenient for a lot of our activities and has a useful stream running through it which we use to fill 'Puffin' Billy for hot water.

In usual fashion, we packed the trailer on Friday evening and the leaders and the senior patrol set off to avoid the busy traffic with the trailer, and get there early on the Saturday morning. For the scouts, Saturday was spent travelling to the site, transported by various parents and they arrived mid afternoon in time to decide where each patrol area would be and then pitch their tents.

As I mentioned above, we had a senior patrol this year, made up of the eldest scouts. Their role was to help the leaders run the camp, but also to enjoy being one of the patrols. The patrols had been decided back in Sheffield and for the record the names and members of each being:-