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CHIEF SCOUTS CHALLENGE PROJECT
PHOTOS & DIAGRAMS BY THE PLS
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The Chef Scouts Challenge This is a special challenge from the chief scout to all scouts aged 14 - 15 and a half. As one of a team of four to five scouts you are challenged to plan and take part in a three day expedition in unfamiliar country to carry out a project.
Your team must be entirely self sufficient throughout the three days, carrying your own tents, food and being able to cope with your own first aid.
To make our expedition more interesting we decided to do it whilst on summer camp in Kandersteg. The first day we walked up and over to Adelboden, then on the second day down to Frutigen, before finally returning to Kandersteg on the last day.
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Log Book Day 1
3 / 7 / 1990 |
07:30 (ish) - Meaths
Leaked half mile from camp
07:57 - Nothing much happened.
08:03 - Arrived at bottom of cable car
08:10 - Arrived at top of cable car |
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| SORTING THE LEAKY BOTTLE |
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| AT THE CHEESERY LOOKING UP TO THE POINT WE CROSS THE RIDGE |
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09:00 - Filled water bottles at
Chesery, camera batteries ran out but I have spares,
need the lav.
09:40 - Surrounded by rowdy cows but Jem removes
them from the path. Spot a bull so we leg it!
10:03 - I'm totally shattered and its getting
steeper
10:38 - Now I'm really knackered but we are nearly
there.
11:02 - At the ridge, Jem gets an 11 second echo |
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11:50 - We left a letter with Andy for the rest of troop, here we leave
our guide Andy J. The letter reads:
| To All At 3rd GP
Im knackered
He's Knackered
The other two are very knackered
Good laugh getting up here [Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha]
Hope to see the rangers at Guide Chalet, how's Faiths back,
Jills Foot, Martins head and Alan Tench?
Has Bosun Grown yet? Has Russel grown up yet?
Tick Here if knackered
| Jill |
Yes |
| Ann |
Its worse than that, I'm dead |
| Jenny |
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| Karen |
Yes |
| Faith [if she makes it] |
No Sill in bead! |
| Esther |
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| Martin |
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| Russel |
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| Velcro |
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| Alex |
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| James |
Yes knackered! |
| David |
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| Barry |
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| Billy [Alan T.] |
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| Malcom |
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Thank you all for making us get
up this early, we will get you all later. Rangers look
after our patrols.
See you all later
The Boys
PS. Bring back letter so we
can all have a good laugh!
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| ON THE RIDGE NEAR BUNDERSPITS |
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| LUNCH STOP BY WATER TROUGH |
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11:50 - The pot- noodles nearly exploded under the
the air pressure, we could use them as a pressure gauge?
12:00 - We left top of ridge after Craig went to the toilet
12:20 - Dan stacks it but not as well as Craig's earlier attempts.
12:40 - Lunch going down
12:53 - Dan stops for the toilet and Mark smells like a very ill cow.
13:05 - Mark falls over.
13:24 - Craig drops his tent.
13:44 - Clean drinkable water at last, Craig drops water on chicken,
chicken deserved it because of the amount of mud on it. |
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14:10 - Jem and Mark stop for toilet, Craig is beginning
to feel ill and very tired.
15:00 - Long talk with old man about the way.
15:27 - First Sight of river.
15:30 - Arrived, completely knackered on grass at campsite. Hooray
and sing for joy! |
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| DAN & MARKS HURRICANE |
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| I CAN SMELL SWISS CHEESE |
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The campsite warden isn't very helpful. Its unbelievable. She charged us 21F for 1
night, 2 tents for four people. We even managed to haggle off 1F
from 2F even though she didn't like it.
Mark's spelling is completely naff.
My legs are so burnt you could fry an egg on them. You can see where the flies have bitten me - Mark. |
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| Traveled |
13km |
| Walked up |
721m in 3km |
| Walked down |
1255m |
| In 08:00 - 3:30pm |
That's 7hrs 30 Min including 30mins break |
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It was an extremely hot day (32 degrees C) We are all burning red, relieved
to be inside my sleeping bag once again. Dinner was our own recipe,
its called Adelboden Stew.
1 Part tinned Beef Stew
1 Part tinned Irish Stew
1 Part tinned Spaghetti
20:00 In tent totally knackered!
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| CRAIG SLEEPS |
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Log Book Day 2
4 / 7 / 1990 |
07:55 - Woke up late but
were not disappointed
08:05 - Got up
09:52 - Site Clear, ready to leave after bathing in sun
lotion factor 120
10:00 - Left at 09:00, cleared campsite of Craig's mess |
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| STOP TO LOOK AT RIVER |
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| THE TRIO |
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10:28 Stopped because my rucksack was too heavy, more so than yesterday. Gave
weight to Jem.
10:50 - Paused for drink and to look at canyon, Average speed 7 Kmph ??
11:12 - We saw a new road tunnel that was not on map, 130m Long
11:20 - Stopped for water
11:52 - More water and some chocolate |
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13:42 - Frutigen in site, 1 hour away, campsite 2 hours away.
13:50 - Jem twists his ankle and Craig stop s for the toilet.
14:05 - By sign for Frutigen (right) have had lunch bread and cheese |
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| THE OUTSKIRTS OF FRUTIGEN |
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| CARDINAL COLA |
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14:25 - Brought four colas in super market, stopped
for ten minutes to drink colas.
15:25 - We arrived after asking for directions
Mark is owned 15.35 Francs
Went swimming, cost us two francs each. On way back from pool saw
a copy of British Daily Mirror. Headline says if Iraq doesn't pull
out of Kuwait then we are at War. Who is Iraq and why are they in
bed with Kuwait? We are away for one week and in that time a war
has started? |
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Campsite is much better and cheaper than other one. Also the warden isn't unhelpful like the other lady
was. We were not happy about having to purchase bread and chocolate from her. Three young ladies have just turned up so I
will leave it here.
19:15 - Craig really is smelling bad. |
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| MIRROR IN FRUTIGEN |
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| THE RIVER IN FRUTIGEN |
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| APPROACHING THE CAMPSITE |
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| OUR CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD |
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19:14 - Jems arm burnt on Craig's choc 'n' orange [my
last one]
I was so tired today, two more girls have just walked by. Was all down
hill today, before we knew it, Frutigen was 50 minutes away!
19:15 - Jems digestion is making some bad smells too.
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| THE CHOCOLATE FRIDGE |
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| DRINKING MELTED CHOCOLATE |
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19:15 - Went swimming this afternoon, it was very hot. Alan Tench would have liked it.
At this point a wasp landed on the log book and we squashed it!
19:31 - Ok, so this hike food is playing havoc with our digestion. Dan has just blasted the second Lotschenberg tunnel. |
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This campsite is practically in the river. We
tried solidifying Dan's and Marks chocolate in the river. Instead
I just drank it whilst Craig threw incomprehensible insults at me.
Craig "Einstein" the 3rd has just discovered the laws of Meths and
water not burning together. Now Craig wont wash up! Now he has
just taken his stuff and not mine. Now he has just walked back, done no
washing up, not even his own and appears to be smoking an oily
rag?! His excuse was that there were some girls down there and he didn't
want to look a complete prat holding stuff to be washed up. What a
plonker - MH & JJ
Mark Owes Dan 1.50F and Jem digestion is still suffering. |
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| DAN DOES DINNER |
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| WAITING FOR THE JELLY TO COOL |
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| OUR JELLY FRIDGE |
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| JEM GIVES UP AND EATS THE JELLY RAW |
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| DODGEY DINNER |
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The corned beef hash looks like someone has been ill and tastes of nothing in particular.
17:15 - Dan makes the Jelly, Jem and CD play with some tea. |
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Log Book Day 3
5 / 7 / 1990 |
7:15 - Get up quick
8:35 - Left Camp
8:45 - Left site
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| LEAVEING FRUTIGEN |
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| KANDERGRUND SIGN |
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09:30 - Stop at Kandergrund
sign for Kandersteg = 2hrs 40 Mins
09:38 - Stop for Kendal Mint cake
10:05 - Stopped in shade
10:50 - Water Stop |
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| WATER STOP BY KANDER |
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| A SWISS BARN |
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| WATER TROUGH PLUG |
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| OUR FEET |
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11:40 - Stopped just outside Kandersteg, we
are roughly 2km away from camp site, going up steep hill!
11:55 - Kandersteg Station
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12:25 - Arrive back at Kandersteg Scout Campsite.
Got back to camp. We can just about count on one hand how many new
friends the Rangers have made. |
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| BY THE MUD PIT |
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Home at last, what a slog that was - we thought we
had a busy couple of days but the Rangers!!! Anyway, were off to
see the Danish and Irish Girls tonight. - CD
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| KANDERSTEG AT LAST |
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| AT CAMPSITE ENTRANCE |
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Mark is obviously knackered. He has just fell on a
deck chair and completely collapsed it. An illness is going around
camp, I caught it of Craig and gave it to Martin. |
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| The Power Behind The Ice |
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Snow gathers in the shelter of the mountains and turns to ice.
The ice is compressed under its own weight. As it is
compressed it moves and erodes the back of the Corrie. |
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The weight of the ice pushes
the glacier up over the lip smoothening the rock underneath.
As the ice bends over the lip crevasses appear.
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In winter the Swiss glaciers are covered in snow, in summer it can melt leaving the ice exposed. |
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This picture taken on a Group
day hike to the Kanderfirn shows the glacier breaking into
large crevasses as is moved over a lip to the lower valley |
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Here the Scouts
are standing on a safe part of the glacier although the Scouts seem to be inspecting a large
fracture. The ice is black, partly due to pollution
and partly due to all the natural stones and grit in
it. 1990 had seen a warm dry July so no snow is
covering the ice.
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A lot of corries or cirques no longer have
glaciers in them. At the deepest part the ice has gouged a bowl and the
lip often forms a dam which holds back a lake. Examples of this can be found
in Britain. This is Oeschenesee near Kanderseg. Dave and his green
mac are on the dam and you can see the steep back wall behind him. |
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| Pyramidal
Peeks |
Pyramid peeks are mountains that
have been worn down to a sharp peek by years of glacial erosion.
This page will explain this process.
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If three or more corries form around a peek they will all slowly erode back into it. |
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As the three glacial corries erode back into the mountain over millions of years, the
sides get steeper and steeper.
The photo far left is of the Doldenhorn's pyramid peek at dawn.
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Eventually the three glaciers erode so far back into the mountain that only a sharp needle like peek is left.
This photo shows the Hockenhorn which is a sharper peek than the Doldenhorn.
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| Moraines |
When two Glaciers erode back against
the same mountain or along parallel valleys they form a sharp edge
of rock between them. This edge is known as an arête as in
the diagram below.
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Moraines are
ridges of boulders left by glaciers as they recede.
There are two main types of moraine, lateral and
terminal.
Terminal moraines
are found at the furthest extremity of a Glaciers reach and
comprise of any rocks or boulders that the glacier pushed down
a valley.
Lateral moraines
are left along the edge of valleys as glaciers recede and are
made of any rocks that fell of the valley side and then became
frozen in the ice. In the picture on the left we have a
literal moron (Dave) and a third of the way down the picture
on the right hand side a lateral moraine. In the picture
on the right we are walking along the same lateral moraine.
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Frost Shattering
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Frost shattering is one of the most common forms of
ice erosion in the alps. Most scree is formed by water freezing in cracks
in the rock over night.
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Ice flows through glaciers
very slowly, if markers are placed in a line on glaciers and there positions
re measured months later, the markers near the middle of the glacier are
always found to have moved further. The ice moves faster in the
middle of a glacier. |
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| Glaciers erode soft rock
faster than hard rock. If a glacier moves from hard to soft rock
it normally creates a sharp step in the valley floor. |
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 | DC David Heart visited 3GP to present the Chief Scout Challenge Badges. Photoes from the expedition can be seen around the wall. This was in a period when the Scout Mushroom trousers were being phased out in our district to be replaced with Black Trousers. Mark Hutton is recieving the badge. |
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ADC Scouts Ted Webster is seen with our four Scouts.
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