Rovers BC

Southwest BC Rover Roundtable

mburge — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:29:39 +0000

On January 15th, Rovers from PCC and FVC had another Rover Roundtable at Camp Maclean. The main focus of this meeting was to catch up on what Crews were up to since Rainbucket and to get some basic planning done for the spring Moot.

On that note, our Spring Moot will be April 27-29th 2012 at Morris Valley.

Minutes from the meeting can be found in the forums here.

See you at Moot!

Grouse – The Peak of Vancouver

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:37:52 +0000

Another excellent trip up Grouse – see the full trip report in our forums

You don’t control Rovers. You unleash them.

Nick — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:22:34 +0000

RainBucket 2011, The Perfect Mix of Mud and Cold

Brad — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:17:38 +0000

This year’s RainBucket was a rousing success. Despite the cold weather and the subsequent fire issues, RainBucket had a turn out of about 400 people, including a large number of Rovers.

People started to arrive around noon on the Friday, and it took no time for the road to become a mud pit as it had been in previous years. However the temperature quickly dropped to a chilly -10, and the staff woke up to -5 in the large warming tent. It was not soon after that the pre-Rovent jokes began to fly.

Like any good Rover camp, opening ran at 10am RST (Rover Standard Time). Which for all those of you out there new to rovers means opening started 30 minutes late. Several events were held including Bean Bieber (slingshots), scavenger hunt, hockey and the infamous eating contest.

This years eating contest was a record year with six people vomiting and one person becoming ill afterward. Don’t worry the person who was sick felt better after puking up their dinner behind their tent. Following the theme of Canadian Eh, the first round was wasabi pancakes, and what are pancakes if they’re not followed up with a cup of maple syrup. The third round was a teaspoon of cinnamon and some dried apples. Next was a candy cane with some chocolate with extra pulpy orange juice.Think of brushing your teeth then having some orange juice. After that was a cup of beef jerky soaked in ridiculously hot salsa. Next was a harmless marsh-mellow, it just happened to be covered in cod liver oil. To top it all off, for the final round the first seven rounds were put into a blender and blender to a nice thick paste. There was also the choice to substitute a mystery item, if you didn’t want to eat the rounds gross food. The two mystery items on the other hand were liver and cow tongue so not much better

A quick roundtable was held to discuss upcoming events as well as the spring moot. The idea of a road trip to CJ and World Moot was brought up and a lot of people seemed on board. The next roundtable is set for January 15th at Camp Mclean.

As per usual RainBucket had a large bonfire, but this year due to the cold weather, there were some technical difficulties lighting the fire. But it was nothing that some petroleum based accelerates couldn’t handle. And RainBucket staff would like to thank Grant again for the great job he did DJing the dance, also a thanks to Mark for coming out to do the lighting for the night.

I personally had a great camp and I am looking forward to seeing you guys out at other events. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, money, abuse, that kinda thing, you can email me Brad@civl.ca or hit me up on Twitter @Rovingscout

Rainbucket is almost here

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:20:30 +0000

Rainbucket is almost here, are you ready? BC Rovers will be there, and getting the ball rolling!

That’s a lot of wood, for a lot of people!

By Rovering, I don’t mean aimless wandering

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:13:51 +0000

BC Rover Moot

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:11:23 +0000

We had over 40 Rovers at Camp Linley for the first (in a very long time) BC Rover Moot. Many things were discussed, including getting Rovers together to do a lot more stuff than we have in the past.

Look for more events coming shortly. We will announce stuff here and on our new mailing list.

Mardi Gras Rocktober

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:11:31 +0000

Mardi Gras Rocktober

It’s going to be a rockstravaganza come rocktober – get out your axe, your pick, your amps and get ready to turn this thing up to ELEVEN!

We’re a week later this year but that doesn’t mean the fun will arrive late, set your time machine for September 30th, 2011 and get ready to rock out with your BP out.

Check out our list of activities, including two ALL-NEW, theme-specific activities you’ve never seen before.

Spread the word and get your registrations in before the early-bird cutoff of September 1st for the chance to win free registration for your group!