County Planning Overnight

So, a County Planning Overnight was held to arrange activities in the County in the coming year. There was good turnout, there were Ventures from nearly all the Groups in Lee Valley. We had some ice-breakers and a BBQ on the Friday night, followed by a small casual campfire...

On Saturday morning, the main event was held, the new ONE Programme among other things were explained, and then a brainstorming session was held. 10 activities have been planned for the coming year, 5 day activities, and 5 overnights/weekends, which will all be organised by different Ventures in the County. Several of our Ventures have volunteered to organise activities, Pádraig and Frank will be organising a big party for next Summer, (God help us all... ) David Lane will be helping with the workshop day, etc.

Hopefully all the activities will actually happen, I'm particularly looking forward to paintballing...

Mahon Falls Hike

Recently, (well recently enough) we went on a nice quick hike in Mahon Falls, in Co. Waterford. The Scouts hoping to go on the MPC came with us as well, even though there's plenty of other mountains around the place, they chose to come with us. Anyway, we discovered the wonder that is a Storm Shelter, where have these been all our lives?

We managed to complete the hike in around 3 hours, and on the way out, discovered something really cool that we'd never seen before, Mahon Falls' ''magic road''.
The idea is you go to the bottom of this hill, and, in neutral, a car will roll backwards up the hill. Or so they say. If you want your innocence destroyed, check this out. If not, take a lookie here.