Adventures with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award

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Alton Webteam: July 2016

Our Gold DofE group has returned from their successful expedition to the Scottish Hills. They had three days of bright dry weather — ideal for backpacking — and a final day of thick mist, very high winds and extremely heavy rain!
Some of the highlights (?) were:

Our three (Charlie, Tori and Emily) joined forces with three BB Boys from Birmingham, whom they had never met before! They settled well as a group; by the end, one might think they had known each other for years.

Tori left her waterproof top behind on the London to Glasgow train. We bought a new one.

The sole began to come away from Emily's boot at the very start of the expedition. We bought new ones!

Tim, one of the supervisors, got a puncture in his car tyre. He bought a new one!!

The group were self-sufficient throughout, and appreciated the views from 800m up, on the top of the Rhinns of Kells.

They enjoyed visiting two mountain bothies during their trip, and bathing in a waterfall was a real adventure.

During their four days in the hill, they met absolutely no-one.

They very wisely used their emergency escape route from the hills on the last day, and arrived at the finish happy, if rather (= very) wet!

David Allan.

Photos:
Group at Tunskeen
Tori, Charlie and Emily arrive at the summit of Corserine (814m)
Group above Backhill of Bush

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