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Oisín

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Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« on: May 04, 2011 »
Just wondering what gives yous lot the love for the outdoors?

Mine is because I sit t a computer all day, and the outdoors is such a contrast and a freedom.

Please explain yours :)
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011 »
Mine started in the scouts. I was a beaver then a cub then a scout and finally a venture scout. I have always been involved one way or anothger in the outdoors till about 4 years ago when I started work in santander and I now sit at a desk. Not my ideal job but it pays the mortgage.
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011 »
I got the bug from my Scouting days. I was in the cubs, scouts, venture scouts and had great leaders who showed us how much fun you could have in the great outdoors. Then I became a Scout leader and tried to pass on all that had been passed to me. Unfortunately I seemed to have lost my way some years back and have only recently got back on track and started getting out and about again.


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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2011 »
Mine would be the same I always was taken for walks around tollymore etc when younger and just loved the forests , I got excepted into college for a forestry course in Scotland and was all for going until I got distracted and wasted a few of younger years in a blur , I'm not stuck doing shifts in a shite factory job and it kills me to be stuck inside ,
I have 2 young boys I who I want to experience the great outdoors as much as possible and not waste their chances like me
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2011 »
Scouting really does seem to drill in the love for the great outdoors, it certainly drilled it into me since beavers, all the way to the end of the line. Sadly this is my last year.  :'( 

Will hopefully become a leader and pass it on. Something worth while.
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2011 »
Scouts followed by 15 years of sofa, TV and drinking followed by a final madness at riding a desk all week made me want to get out and enjoy the fresh air (and set stuff alight!). Talk about regretting 20 years of smoking though  >:(
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2011 »
Hmm... well like others I was brought up regularly caravanning and camping in forest parks such as Castlewellan, Gosford and Glenariff.  That definitely instilled a love of the outdoors!  I also have great memories of a school trip to Ardnabannon.

I kinda lost interest during my teenage years, but got into mountain biking in my early 20's which got me outdoors again.  Shortly after I started hill walking as I thought it would be great to get out in the mountains without having to load up a mountain bike on the car etc.  Also Kat really encouraged me to get outdoors as she had completed her Duke of Ed Gold.
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2011 »
Well I certainly can't blame my parents as they never took me camping, although we did have a static caravan in Newcastle for a few teen years so I spent a lot of summers running through the forest at Drinahilly. I did a few months in the cubs and don't remember liking it much, I always wanted to join the scouts as that looked like more fun but didn't want to go alone and none of my friends were in them. A school weekend  trip to Ardnabannon was probably the catalyst for a more active outdoors life. I did a few months as a voluntary leader with the YMCA in Newcastle many years ago then got a job as a ranger with the DOE Conservation Service. I moved on to a job with a real wage after that and then my outdoorsyness was reduced to about one summit per year. I got into Land Rovers about 10 years ago and did a lot of lazy outdooring with plenty of camping. Joined the scouts 2 years ago to fulfill my childhood ambition and then it has sort of snowballed from there as I decided I had to get fit again before I was 40 and now the Mournes are like a second home to me.
 
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2011 »
You set a fine example!

Quote from: LandyLiam on May 04, 2011
Well I certainly can't blame my parents as they never took me camping, although we did have a static caravan in Newcastle for a few teen years so I spent a lot of summers running through the forest at Drinahilly. I did a few months in the cubs and don't remember liking it much, I always wanted to join the scouts as that looked like more fun but didn't want to go alone and none of my friends were in them. A school weekend  trip to Ardnabannon was probably the catalyst for a more active outdoors life. I did a few months as a voluntary leader with the YMCA in Newcastle many years ago then got a job as a ranger with the DOE Conservation Service. I moved on to a job with a real wage after that and then my outdoorsyness was reduced to about one summit per year. I got into Land Rovers about 10 years ago and did a lot of lazy outdooring with plenty of camping. Joined the scouts 2 years ago to fulfill my childhood ambition and then it has sort of snowballed from there as I decided I had to get fit again before I was 40 and now the Mournes are like a second home to me.
 
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2011 »
From years of being a lazy B****** and married with children has a big aspect to it for me.  I've always been an outdoors person and now that I have been working from the same workplace for 11 years as I used to be a tradesman always out and about the country, I now have a severe need to get out alot more. 
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2011 »
I started as a Cub leader about 15 years ago and moved to Explorers (14-18) 3 years ago.  Getting really into doing outdoors for myself as well as for the kids since I got more involved with the more lightweight stuff with DoE.  Hubby is a Scout leader and all the kids are involved in scouting so I have a silly amount of tents and rucsacs at the bottom of my stairs ...
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2011 »
I feel like the odd one out. I tried Guides when I was very young, lasted 2 weeks! And never had the urge to be a leader! And I work outdoors! As for where it all sprung from, like all kids I just enjoyed being outside and my parents always encouraged that by throwing us outside as much as possible. Always knew the conventional desk job wasn't going to suit me, so the second I saw a degree listed that gave a potential career of Park Ranger I knew that was for me. So worked at that for a few years and now a habitat ecologist. So out and about in the most amazing bits of Northern Ireland on a regular basis still pretending I'm 8 years old just running about having fun! And grew up my the mountains so nothing better than throwing on the hiking boots and heading up a hill or two at the weekend. Oh, quite like the sea too!!
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2011 »
Must admit it wasn't for me when I was that age, enjoy it far more as an adult when I can do my own thing and drag the kids along with me rather than the other way round.  It's been a bit mad here recently 'cause I've had a Bronze DoE training hike, Silver training hike, Bronze assessed hike and a bike expedition camp all in the last 5 weeks but nothing on for the next 4 apart from one hike so nice and quiet  ;)  Camping again first weekend in June
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2011 »
Quote from: KittyKatArmstrong on May 04, 2011
I started as a Cub leader about 15 years ago and moved to Explorers (14-18) 3 years ago.  Getting really into doing outdoors for myself as well as for the kids since I got more involved with the more lightweight stuff with DoE.  Hubby is a Scout leader and all the kids are involved in scouting so I have a silly amount of tents and rucsacs at the bottom of my stairs ...


And I've seen that little mountain at the bottom of your stairs and you didn't even mention your very substantial walk in camping cupboard.  ;D
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Re: Where does your love for the outdoors come from?
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2011 »
and you haven't seen our 20' x 25' scout store shed where the rest of it lives!  Have to give you the full guided tour next time.
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