Recent training...

Wooh! Under a week and I've neglected the blog! Really should be packing now too but time to sneak up a few pictures to document some of the acitivites of the team mates over the last few weeks with them successfully completing several levels of DOE...

The sock drying technique! The first day of the gold expedition was awful! Torrential rain and hail! Who orders that?!

The gold group storming the mugwumps on the horizon...

And then celebrating in style at the finish line... With Ben getting a face full of champagne!!

Jack cooking on silver

Chris loves sharpies!!

Camp fire games on silver...

Adam wasn't so successful at those camp fire games!!!

Chris, Ben and Laura hunting for geocaches and letter boxes on Crockern Tor.

Faye has retrieved a couple of geocoins for us to whisk away over to the Alps

You would have thought after our training weekends Ben would have learn to lighten his load... But no!! His gold DOE bag was over 26kg without the group food!!

He did have a few snacks in there though!!

We manged to remove 6kg of extra snacks....

Laura forgot everything.... Including her hat! So got to take one of these attactive ones...

Faye and Laura's love affair was cemented further as they shared desert!

The gold team ready to go.

Ben loves Dartmoor! But will he love the alps more?!

An excellent make shift washing line... if you don't mind the gorse prickles getting stuck in your socks...

And any guesses as to who feels the need to dry their hair bow out!?

Ben's jet boil love continues!

Congratulations to Laura, Faye and Ben for completing their Gold DOE with huge ease despite the evil weather!

Congratulations to Jack and Adam for completing their Silver DOE with some cool kit!

And to Chris for putting up with Mel for a whole week and sacrificing a week to help out with the gold supervision...