Les Roberts (Assistant Scout Leader 1977-89) remembers going on a snow trip with Turi Troop in 1982 - before the new Scouting complex was built at Jindabyne. The Scout Association's old hut was pretty basic but nonetheless good accommodation. As Les recalls, Turi Troop did everything wrong. First they borrowed, for a $50 donation, the 24th Section's bus from Hornsby Police Boys Club. They also hired all skis etc from Hornsby. They set off at 6.00pm on the Friday with 15 Scouts, 3 Leaders and 6 fathers. Chris Wight and Les were the drivers. The bus had a very old 4 cylinder engine. The top speed down hill was 90 kph. Normal speed was 50 kph and uphill it was lucky to reach 10 kph. The bus' heater packed up at Liverpool and two cyclists beat the bus from Liverpool to Picton - but they did stop twice and try to fix the heater. The bus was so slow that some cyclists even overtook them on the hills. The bus arrived at Jindabyne at 4.30am - 10 ½ hours after leaving Berowra. They were so tired all they could do was to crawl into their sleeping bags. But at 5.45am they were woken by the Camp Warden banging on their door. They had committed the crime of parking in a No Parking area. Chris Wight, a diminutive 6'2" told the Camp Warden (no doubt with some expletives thrown in) if he wanted the bus moved he could do it himself. They skied all day Saturday and Sunday and got back to Berowra at 3.00am Monday. Les slept for two days. Everyone had fun - but the next year the Troop went in comfort with North Metropolitan Area in a coach.

Les also recalls using a flying fox in the hall grounds for a going up ceremony. The pulley hook slipped and dropped Scott Hamilton and broke his ankle. The accident didn't put Scott off Scouting - he later became a Patrol Leader and eventually went onto Venturers. His father Wally Hamilton even became Group President.

In 1976 and 1977 the Scouts entered the Sirius Cup race at Balmoral beach. These races involved canoes, rafts and sailing boats. It is not recorded whether Berowra won any events, but apparently the Scouts enjoyed the challenge offered by the competition.

In 1977 the Scouts built a large raft and 12 Scouts and a Leader, Peter "Binda" Luckett, spent 10 days rafting down the Hawkesbury River from Windsor to Berowra Waters. The raft consisted of a wooden deck with a framework of welded angle-iron on top of 16 44‑gallon drums all bolted together. Their shelter consisted of a pitched tent on the deck of the raft. Some of the Scouts were:

David Cornford, Stephen Hanscomb, Gordon McDowell, Craig Penning, Robert Plumley, Trevor Spinks, Jamie Turner, David Walker and Jonathan Walker.

Incidentally the Venturer Unit, after refurbishing the raft, used it in 1993. Their attempt to navigate the raft ended in failure when the ties holding the 44‑gallon drums snapped one after another and the raft capsized. Fortunately the Unit had other water craft on the trip and nothing serious happened.

Warren Scott recalls two incidents at Scout camps in the late 1980s.

1.   A huge storm almost flattening the 16th World Jamboree (1987/88) held at Cataract Scout Park campsite. It made for a very "exciting" time;

2.   Chris Huntley getting stuck, in a very narrow cave, with 10 people caught behind him at a caving camp in 1989.