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Loch Ossian - Into The Wild 08
LYPP has started a New
Year tradition of its own by
hosting its 5th annual trip to Loch Ossian Youth Hostel.
Eleven
young people and six leaders set out for a weekend that held a few more
surprises than usual.
Prior to the trip the
young people met together to set
collective ground rules, check their kit and decide what we would eat
at
mealtimes while we were away. The young people were given the
responsibility of
creating a cordon bleu menu, which consisted of a set number of
calories,
included any specific dietary requirements and was at least two
courses. The
young people were then given a budget and went shopping at Tesco for
all the
food items they would need.
Loch Ossian Youth
Hostel is one of Scotland’s most
ecologically friendly buildings, set within the beautiful surroundings
of the
Rannoch moor where it is only accessed by train and a kilometre walk.
Therefore
the young people had to take this into consideration regarding all the
decisions about the weight and size of food items they carried in and
waste
items that had to be carried out on foot.
The weather forecasts
for the weekend had indicated that
there would be a lot of rain and strong winds however this was only a
tiny
flavour of the conditions that we would face on the way to the hostel.
The young people were
met from school and travelled by
LYPP minibus to Crianlarich train station. On the way we could see that
Loch
Iubhir was extremely high but had not anticipated that the water levels
of all
the lochs and water ways to be so full. It was only when we were
15minutes from
the station and we came across flooding over the road and had to do a
bit of
‘minibus fording’ that we realised it was indeed going to be a very wet
weekend.
On arrival at Corrour
station the young people hitched up
their heavy rucksacks and as the train pulled out of the station, they
felt the
full power of the 90 mile an hour gusting winds.
After a blowy walk to
the hostel the young people got to
investigate the self composting toilets, settle into dorms and sample
the first
round of meals-shepherds pie and apple crumble, a Loch Ossian first!
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