The Rowswell Venture Unit Board Of Log Classification have deemed this log only suitable for persons over the age of 15.  This expedition account contains scenes of nudity and expert revelry and is a prime example of how a very good expedition can soon deteriorate into a serious drinking session.  As such it may deprave and warp the image Younger Scouts have of Ventures who are by and large clean living and rarely intoxicated individuals.

The following is an account of expert revelry, written by four Venture Scouts who planned and executed an expedition during the 3rd Gidea Park summer camp in 1995.  None of the younger members of the group were on this expedition.  However by lunchtime on the final day they found that they were hours ahead of schedule and they got a little distracted by an unusual game of Golf.

 It should be pointed out that at the time of writing all four members of the expedition team were over 18 years of age.  It should also be pointed out that the Scout association almost certainly does not condone the kind of behavior that was displayed on the final day.  We would like to draw you attention to the rules that were draughted up during the aforementioned game and were nearly all designed to ensure the safety of all the participants and in some cases the spectators.  Young Adults of this age can occasionally be found playing drinking games.  Most seem to be designed to ensure that those who cannot hold there alcohol drink more than anyone else.  Pub Golf is more fair in that all competitors drink exactly the same amount.

 Anyway, enough of the frivolity of the last day and back to the Expedition.  Earlier in the year Mark had been a member of the Romford District 4 inns team.   The 4 inns is a 45 mile (ish) in one day hike in the peek district.  Unfortunately none of it is spent in any inns.  Mark felt that the RVU should enter a team and felt that the team would benefit by hiking the section of the route from Crowden to Edale, and then bimbling back towards our camp site in Little Eaton over the following couple of days.

 Narration for this article is taken from our 1995 Summer Camp Log book.  Present on the Expedition were Mark Hutton, Jeremy Jackson, Andrew Lannin and James Logan.  All three were accomplished Hikers.  To set the scene, the summer of 1995 was blisteringly hot.  It was the only summer camp in living memory where not a single drop of rain fell for the whole duration of our stay.