Hi all,
The Scouts had their first night hike on Saturday 7th November this was a district event held on Dartmoor the start was Haytor lower car park around and over to the Bovey Tracy scout HQ.
The minimum size of the group was 4 scouts, this meant we had to first get the go ahead to have an over 13 year old in the under 13 group.
On Friday afternoon I was informed that 2 scouts did not want to go. Again this meant getting the go ahead for a ‘not quite scout age’ person to join our team.
We finally got to the event where we got drenched before we even set off. We set off, making good time to the first check point, at the check point we realised that we had, in fact, gone the wrong way and had to go back to the start and begin again.
The rest of the evening went quite smoothly with aching feet and tiredness being the only negative factors.
Obviously we were expecting to be told that we had come last or close to last but to my shock were told tonight that our team actually came in joint 2nd !!!
I am so pleased with that result, especially after all the problems, that I just had to tell everyone.
Every one enjoyed the event and some even went on a training walk the next day for ten tors.
Michelle