Chase Walk 2012

Chase Walk 2012

Hi All,

On Saturday 17th March we entered a team of 5 Scouts into this year’s Chase Walk event.

We would've had 6 but unfortunately Vincent was taken ill a few days befor the event.

The Scouts met at Birches Valley car park at 8.30am for a brief equipment check and then made their way to the official starting point near the Birches Vally Forest Centre on Cannock Chase.

I had to get there earlier than the Scouts this year to assist the Scout Comms team with check-in and do various walking sweeps throughout the day picking up any strays!

After registering our team with the organisers, the Scouts then had to wait for an official equipment and safety check before finally being allowed to start the walk at around 9.00am.

The weather forecast started cloudy, but with sunny spells and scattered showers materialising later in the morning and continuing into the afternoon.

The route was approximately 22.3km (~14 miles) long and the team had to check in at 7 bases in total along the way, including one near the town of Brocton and Walton-on-the-Hill.

Our team did extremely well and made excellent time throughout the day.

All of the extra map reading sessions and practise hike had obviously paid off. We were very impressed.

Please click on the image above to see more pictures taken during the event.

The team reached the base at the finishing point at approx 2.30pm and were in very good spirits.

This is the third time we have entered a team in this event since it was opened up for the Scouts over 10 years ago.

We hope to enter another team in the Chase Walk event again next year.

Many thanks to all those parents who helped with transport, I am very grateful.

Yours in Scouting,

Adam (Chief)