Esher District Night Hike – 16th -17th October 2004 – Results

Competitive Teams Training Teams
Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Checkpoint Max Pts 1HW A 1WG B 3M A Ajax C 1WG A 1Clay B Ajax A 3M B 1Clay A 12th Dkg No team 1HW B 2 M 3M S 1HW T Ajax T/Ox 3M T 1M T 1WG T
Start Violet Inspection 30 30 30 28 27 30 30 27 30 29 29 30 30 30 30 25 30 30 30
Fox Route Check
Indigo Arrival 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 0 50 20 50 50 0 50 0 50 0 0
1st Aid Incident 50 47 48 9 20 44 30 21 0 20 26 22 32 0 28 0 28 0 0
Blue Arrival 50 50 50 50 0 50 50 50 0 50 0 0 0 50 50 0 50 0 50
Cooking Incident 50 25 2 10 0 37 29 24 0 26 0 0 0 3 20 0 21 0 20
Green Arrival 50 50 0 50 0 50 50 50 50 50 0 0 0 50 50 0 50 50 50
Puzzle Incident 50 48 0 46 0 48 48 44 49 43 0 0 0 42 49 0 47 48 49
Orange Arrival 50 50 50 20 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 0 50 50 50 50 50 50
Compass Incident 50 33 32 32 23 29 35 32 27 26 27 31 0 43 37 32 35 43 33
Red Arrival 50 50 50 0 50 50 50 0 50 0 50 50 0 50 0 50 0 50 50
Pioneering Incident 50 33 17 0 22 42 37 0 37 0 21 31 0 31 0 24 0 34 46
Fox Route Check
Finish Violet Arrival 50 50 20 0 50 50 50 20 0 50 0 20 0 50 0 50 0 0 20
**Walking Time 3hs 07m 3hrs 24m 3hr 40m
* Time Points 50 50 30 10
Questions Q1 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0 20 20 20 20 20 No 20 20 0
Q2 20 20 0 20 0 0 20 20 0 20 0 20 10 20 20 Answer 20 20 20
Q3 20 20 0 20 0 20 20 20 20 20 0 20 0 20 20 Sheet 20 0 20
Q4 20 20 0 0 0 0 20 20 20 0 0 0 20 20 0 Provided 0 0 20
Q5 20 20 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 0 20
Penalties Emergency Instructions -100
Road Walking
Results Total Points 730 666 369 355 312 620 599 448 353 434 243 384 162 479 444 231 441 345 478
Overall Position 1 10 11 15 2 3 6 12 9 16 14 18 4 7 17 8 13 5
TTT Position 1 6 7 10 2 3 4 8 5 11 9 12
GroupTTT Points
1st Hinchley Wood18
1st Weston Green14.5
1st Claygate12
Ajax10
3rd Molesey7
1st Molesey3
2nd Molesey3
1st Oxshott3
Notes
*Time points Fastest team 50pts 2nd fastest 30pts 3rd fastest 10 pts
** Walking time Excludes time at checkpoint to do incident.
Checkpoint 50 points for arrival at a checkpoint within overall time limit
Arrival 20 points for arrival at checkpoint after team overall time limit

As one of the events that form the District’s annual Top Troop Trophy, the night hike is an opportunity for scouts to try out their navigational skills in the dark and work in teams on a number of incident checkpoints.

This year’s hike was based around Holmwood Common, near Dorking. An excellent 18 teams, including one from Dorking District, gathered at the start hut to register and plot the route.

Shortly after sunset, the first two teams set out. The 6 mile route took teams to a number of checkpoints on the common in either a clockwise or anticlockwise direction.

The pioneering incident required a bucket to be retrieved from Fourwents Pond. Most teams opted to build an ‘A’ Frame that could be lowered with a hook on the top.

Next was a bearings exercise. Teams started at a piece of paper giving a bearing and number of metres e.g. 216º and 35m. Teams then walked the bearing, estimating the distance and decided which of 4 letters placed on the ground at slightly different points was at the correct location. With seven of these each member of the team had a go at taking a bearing and being taught by the older scouts if not sure how to do this. There were also quiz, first aid and cooking incidents at the other checkpoints located at car parks around the common.

Additional footpaths not on the map made the navigation tricky but teams rose to the challenge and found the compass was particularly useful to decide which paths to take.

Peter Hanna, DESC/ADC Scouts says well done to all the teams who took part and thanks for the help provided by the groups. Congratulation to the winners 1st Hinchley Wood.

Orienteering is now being promoted within the district with transport being co-ordinated to junior league events run by the Southern Navigators Orienteering Club.

Coming up soon on the Top Troop Trophy calendar are the five-a-side football and scouting skills competitions.

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