Cabot Ten Tors

First of all we want to start off a little complaint. Girls do NOT like yellow! We NEVER will. A few reasons for this:

• Makes our skin itch!
• It clashes with all of our other clothing
• And finally it clashes with our skin tone, eye colour, hair colour and most importantly our make-up! (We don’t complain too much…do we?!)

Now back to our report, it’s going to be so much better than Aled's (nah nah joke!).

We left Bristol early Friday morning and drove down to Okehampton, all walkers and their support camp on a big army base. In the queue we got rather peckish, thanks for the eggs (hehehe egghead!) Martin, we’ll pay you back. After having our kit scrutineered by the army (who were a lot more relaxed than we thought they’d be) we received our routes, identification etc. (Thanks Aled for that paragraph we were a bit stuck!)

"...we all have trouble being quiet..."

Anyways, for the rest of the Friday we tried our hardest to have some fun, only the weather was a bit ?$*&% (a.k.a. poo!) As it got a bit later we had to settle down for a ‘good nights rest’, as we had to be up early the next day! But as everyone knows, this doesn't happen easily in a tent with Sarah, Paddy, Rach and Seb (plus a few others), as we all have trouble being quiet. But finally we settled down as Kate had been in and told us off a few times.

This year we woke up to great disappointment as the music was too quiet! Plus waking up at 5 is not good, plus waking up in a tent and to make matters worse we were in a tent on DARTMOOR, in the RAIN! We had our team photos done with our gorgeous jumpers on; we’ll treasure them for life, when looking like blocks of cheese in them! We headed up to the start line to find out to our disappointment we had missed the prayer, but thankfully Sarah had read it to us the night before!

We had the best team we recon, two lovely princesses, we’re sure you can guess who they are (Seb and Nyle), we gave some nicknames out, we had Vincent the squirrel (it took Vince a while to understand that one!) we had Joe we’re still thinking of one for him! Then there was us two, Swer and Ra.

"...Dartmoor defies every rule of science..."

Well we started off walking until we came to our favourite hill, although it isn’t really a hill, we refer to it as a ‘slide’; it goes on and on and on. To be honest we recon that Dartmoor defies every rule of science in the world (thanks Seb for that little quote!)

Cutting out the rest of the day, by the time we’d got to Tor 5 (South Hessary) everyone was on a low point, and Sarah’s ankle was bad and she decided to drop out there, although this did take her 6 hours to get back to Okehampton. Leaving me, which was devastating! But she claims she walks faster without me there to moan to. I found this rather offensive only I find I walk better without her too!

The team carried on hoping to get to Tor 8, but only making it to Tor 7 which they were pleased with. Cutting out a lot more they made it back to Okehampton at 12.06, beating Durbs time of 12.35 (as Nyle and Rach had the same route last year), this must show rain and wind makes you walk faster!

"...hairbrush out so she’d be ready for photos..."

On the final down hill leg Rach thought she’d be clever and get her hairbrush out to put in her pocket so she’d be ready for photos. When she went to grab it, disaster had struck, she’d lost it on the way down, and she claims to have been mugged! Hmmmmmm whatever!

Rach was ecstatic to find out that this year you got a beautiful free water bottle. Unfortunately for this poor little bottle, it didn’t receive a loving home, due to an ACCIDENTAL mistake made by Rach, it ended up in a bin later that day!

And finally we want to congratulate everyone who took part and thank all the leaders for their hard work.

Love Sarah and Rach xx