Henry Lam was PL of Antelope (my) patrol, JB.  He and James Chui Wing-Cheung led us (me, GooWarkLo, Luk LeyTong, Ah Ding et al ) to the Senior’s competition for the Prince of Wales Trophy….., and we ended up getting totally LOST in Tai Mo Shan in the dark……

Once again, Goo Wark Lo saved the night!  James used the army phone to get help.  The army instead sent for a small jeep from the Tai Po Police Station.  The officer/driver of the jeep was quite mad that we bunch of ~16/17 year olds would cause them so much trouble (for the rescue), coming up the steep zigzag road in pitch darkness……

Both policemen were swearing……..; until GooWark Lo recognized the driver as one of his dad’s junior colleagues years back……  Then they stopped swearing and treated us like brave little scouts!

We lost the trophy to the top team.  We got second place instead.
(There were only two patrols in that year’s competition!).

I often wonder why incidents like this that happened more than 50 years ago would be so vivid, and yet I didn’t even consider the event in any way “traumatic”.  It was just plain FUN !!!!

Staying up at a Taipei hotel waiting to fly over to Tokyo tomorrow morning for a week long tour,
Vincent Lee of Edmonton (2014/11/03)