Cardboard Caving 2014
…100 ar 62nd Bristol Spaner, Kartong Grotto Hundaarsdaag Utgava
(100 years, 62nd Bristol Scouts, Cardboard Caves, Centenary Edition)
Over 350 building hours…
…and one hour to destroy, but then there were lots of destructive Scouts to help out.
The caves were back! anyone that has ever done the caves before talks about it for years, anyone that hasn’t done it has heard so many tales they talk about it too. For those who build it they talk about increasing the 4 year gap between ‘caves’ to aid the recovery of sore elbows, bad joints from hovering in awkward places, fingers bled raw from cardboard and cable ties and of course worse of all: ‘tapeus tinnitus’. It wakes us up at night, (seriously…)
Some extremely interesting facts and figures for you:
1.2 miles of gaffer and parcel tape
2640+ cable ties
353.25 hours in building, spread over one and a half weeks
…built by 22 people (all leaders, young leaders and ex Scouts and parents)
3 leaders clocked up 150 hours between them
one young leader/ex Scouts clocked up nearly 40 hours
3 scaffolding towers
10 packets of Rajani sweets (jelly crocdiles were the best)
lots of The Breeze (or is it Febreeze…)
Over 200 children and adults spread over 2 weeks, from:
Henleaze Guides 3rd Bristol Cubs All sections from 62nd Bristol (Scouts did it twice!) A a smattering of ex-Scouts who couldn’t resist a pop back for old times sake!
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“I had to peel my Scout off the ceiling last Friday night after the Caves he was that excited about it” |
” My Scout didn’t stop talking about it all weekend afterwards”
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“We just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU! You put a lot of time and effort into building the caves and it was all worth it. The cubs thought it was amazing! (As did the leaders/parents) So well done to you all 🙂 you have made a very big bunch of scouty people quite happy.” |
“Cardboard caving, the hardest caving I’ve ever done (harder than the Daren Cilau entrance series) two grazed elbows and the most claustrophoic I’ve ever felt in my life. Best fun I’ve had in a while – cheers 62nd & everyone else who put the effort into building the epic adventure, my Cub says it was the best cub night ever!” | “getting lovely feedback they all reckon best thing they have done at Beavers! so thanks – how do we follow that !!!???” |
“Feedback from caving was as expected most thought it was one of the best things they have ever done in there small lives so a massive thanks from parents, myself & rest of leadership team to all the people who made the caving possible for a job so well done, again a huge hit with Beavers even the ones who got upset, apparently, so please pass this on to the rest of the cave dwellers – so chuffed they enjoyed it so much.” |
“My child has just told me that tonight’s cardboard caving was the best thing he has ever done in his life! “
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“I think he might be too hyped up to sleep though… “ |
As for all the Swedish – guess where most of the cardboard came from!