We arrived on Friday evening to a delightful, if slightly stressful, maths relay which sparked the competitive spirit that continued throughout the trip.

The first morning, we woke up to a dusting of snow and wrapped up warm. After lots of cups of tea and breakfast we split into our groups and went our separate ways - some to the zip-wire, some to water walking and the unlucky few to some multiple choice maths! After rotating through all the activities, all very sweaty and dirty, we grudgingly left our lovely instructors and gratefully accepted our lunch of plastic cheese and cup-o-soup.

After lunch we all ran off on our mathematical orienteering challenge from which we all returned in varying levels of mud and water, some missing shoes and many missing the answers to the...