Mountain Biking In The Moors

On Sunday the 10th July 2016 a group of Scouts set out on an amazing mountain bike trek starting at Sutton Bank Visitors Centre.  

 We were handed out a bike, gloves, helmet and glasses.  Then we had to do a check on the bikes but instead of checking our own bikes we checked the person’s bike next to us (trying to remember which way was clockwise!!).

 We set out on our adventure (after eventually finding out which way was clockwise!) heading down a steep hill that had some tight corners then over a bridge and then back up the hill to a road.
Along the road we went, when we came to a gate that led up to a really worn, muddy, dirty path. We played a game of slow races by trying to be the slowest up the hill and in this case trying not to fall off!

In total we cycled 32 km in about 4 hours. My favourite bit was when we had finished we went on a test track and it had some jumps, up and down steps , dodging trees as I raced passed at a million miles an hour!
It was the best but my bum really hurt for the next week!

By Matthew 
Cobra Patrol Leader

The Colour Rush for St Michael Hospice

The Colour Rush, which took place at Ripley castle, is a 5 kilometre run/walk to help raise money to support St. Michael Hospice, in Harrogate.

The reason we (Scouts, Cubs and Beavers) did it, was to raise money to help patients at St. Michael Hospice, who need a lot of care and help. So, by doing the run thousands of pounds were raised to help people at the hospice. 1^st Marston Moor must have collected between £350 and £500.This money will be used to improve people’s lives who have been affected by terminal illness.

The Cubs, Beavers and Scouts from 1^st Marston Moor did a 5 km run around Ripley Castle where every kilometres there is an area where about 8 volunteers throw paint at you, which is why at the end you look like a magical fairy in a rainbow. At the 1^st kilometre there was red paint, the 2^nd was yellow, green and blue after.

. After we finished we were given a packet of paint which of course, we poured on top of ourselves.

Some people were completely coloured as they either rolled in the paint or they were the volunteers who were caught in the clouds of paint.

I thought that doing this run is one of the best ways to do exercise, have fun and raise money for charity all at once. We had a Zumba warm up before the start but there was cake and drinks at the end.

I would definitely recommend this to you. I personally would rate this 9 out of 10. So if you want to do something good, this is for you.

By Jallan 

Stag Patrol

http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2016/06/20/pictures-colour-rush-2016-saint-michaels-hospice/

How many Scouts can you spot in the first few warm-up pictures? 

Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair Basketball

Our normal scouts’ night was changed to a Friday and at Long Marston village hall we had the exciting opportunity to try wheelchair basketball. Apart from Owen, it was the first time doing wheelchair basketball for us all, and we were all looking forward to it and couldn’t wait to play. They divided us into two groups of ten, one group went outside for an hour while the other group got used to the wheelchairs and played a few different games. Playing wheelchair basketball was a great experience and an amazing team sport. 

There were lots of things I thought would be different like the turning and the pushing; for example, I thought for the turning if you wanted to spin around and go the other way you would have to push one wheel and slowly manoeuvre yourself around. It turned out to be much more simple; you simply just spun one wheel backwards and grabbed both wheels when you had turned enough. The pushing was a lot harder than expected too. You couldn’t just push the wheels once and go really fast, you had to lean forward when you pushed to stop you falling backwards and that kind of hurt your back. You had to do big strong pushes to get a bit of speed up, so your arms and shoulders ached at the end. 

All in all, we had a great evening with the wheelchairs and couldn’t have done it without Adrian and his daughter Imogen from Hoopstars. 

As well as the fun we had, it made us realise how fit and skilful the 
para-athletes who compete in wheelchair basketball really are! 

By Will S 
Stag Patrol

Scouts at the Yorkshire Air Museum

The Yorkshire Air Museum

On Saturday the 28th of February, our scout troop visited the Yorkshire Air Museum which is at the site of the former RAF Elvington.

First we were split into groups and were given a paper to complete.  It had questions which we had to find the answers to.  We all ran into different rooms.  I will tell you what my group discovered.  Lucky for us all of our answers were in the pioneer room which included amazing facts about Sir George Cayley, other pioneers, planes and blimps.

Scouts Dam Busters Reenatment - Watch that bouncing bomb go!

Just before we finished our sheet, Andrea came and said that at lunch, all the groups would perform an act on a subject of their choice. We chose the Dambusters! Other choices included: Sir George Caley and Amy Johnstone.

After a few minutes it was lunch time. We all ate our lunches and at the end of lunch we all acted out our performances. Then we were all given another paper to do. Thankfully there was only one question that needed you to go somewhere so everyone just sat on a bench or rock to do this paper. This time the questions were about plane parts.

We then finished the trip with some fun games.

I would highly recommend the Yorkshire Air Museum as you can learn and have fun at the same time. 
By Tynan, Wolf Patrol.