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Featured below are a selection of photos from
the 2002 Ten Tors event. Just click on any of the
thumbnails to launch a full size picture (be prepared to wait
a few seconds for each as the large pictures will take longer
to download)...
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The Junior team (35 miles Bronze route)
Pictured in the photo are (left to
right):
(Upper Row) Cdt Richard Watt; Cdt Ben
Sheppard (Team Captain); Cdt Jack
Cutler; Cdt Adam Morley; Cdt David Tindall; Cdt James
Ackroyd
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The Senior Team (45 miles Silver route)
Pictured in the photo are (left to
right):
(Upper Row)
Sgt Ed Pyke; Sgt Alex May; S/Sgt Dave Collier; Cdt Adj James
Devall (Team Captain);
S/Sgt Alex Riley
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Row) Cdt Tristan Mather ; Cdt Andrew Freeman |
(Lower
Row)
RSM Gareth Lodwick; Cdt Cxn Adam Norris |
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It's just past 0500 and it's evident that someone didn't
get enough beauty sleep!
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It's 0630 hours and the teams prepare to walk up to the
start line.
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Through the camp gates and onto the moor's edge.
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Anxiously waiting for the starting cannon ...
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... with a final check of the maps and route.
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Having trained together as a team for months on end,
everyone's morale and confidence is sky high.
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A few last minute bits of advice...
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It's 0700, the Bishop has said prayers, the cannon roars
and they're off - 2400 youngsters and 400 teams soon to be
swallowed up by the moor.
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A few encouraging words for the reserves left behind.
Without them the rest of the teams couldn't take part, but
it's still a tough job to watch your mates set off without
you.
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Throughout the weekend, the teams' routes and status
updates are plotted against the forecasted route plans as
information is relayed back to the Stats hanger from the
checkpoints on the Tors.
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Constant Flying Ops buzz overhead during the day as stores
are dispatched to outlying checkpoints and injured walkers are
ferried safely back to the base camp.
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Just time to catch a few 'rays', top up that tan and throw
a ball around for an hour or two!
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Even now, some of the group are still waiting for the call
up to play on the next English cricket tour of the West
Indies.
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Looking back down across the tented area on the edge of
Okehampton Base where the team managers wait during the
weekend for news of their group's progress.
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Scanning the horizon for the returning teams is always a
strangely tense time for all the team managers and supporters.
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On the horizon, you can see (from left to right): Row Tor,
West Mill Tor and Yes Tor (2.5 Km away). At 619
metres, Yes Tor is the highest point on Dartmoor.
An Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter keeps watch from
above.
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The Juniors march safely in as a complete team on the final
approach back to Okehampton
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... and given the probable state of their feet, wishing
that they were still yomping through bogs and moorland, rather
than along the hard tarmac road!
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A last grimace as they trudge through to the finish line
with the crowds clapping all around them.
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Shortly afterwards, the Seniors decide to make an
appearance also a complete team.
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and then decide to pose for a team ... pose.
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The Juniors receive their 'Bronze' medals and look on as
there are cheers from the onlookers.
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The Seniors are awarded their much deserved 'Silver'
medals.
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The final loading of the kit before returning to
Bournemouth.
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The sharing of everyone's individual guts and glory stories
... "No pain, No gain"
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The end to an experience that none of them will ever
forget.
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With a few painful days to keep reminding themselves of the
challenge!
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