Please take care using your camp stoves now! This after the recent headline:
100 firefighters attend massive blaze near Chat Tor. Ten Tor's Director Brigadier Piers Hankinson has concluded that the fire risk is 'Red' despite this week's rain. The green shoots are yet to appear, leaving tinder dry dead grass moor-wide.
This weekend we should also consider the 300-or-so participants of the Jubilee Challenge. Celebrating it's 35th anniversary this year, the Jubilee Challenge is open to teenagers with physical or educational disabilities. Entrants take on one of 4 routes of between 7.5 miles and 15 miles across North Dartmoor over a single day, dealing with the same pressure and conditions as the Ten Tor'ers.
This is a truly incredible event: offering a test for groups and individuals who face challenges every day of their lives. The objectives of the Jubilee Challenge are to develop personal skills such as self reliance, personal responsibility and leadership, whilst also providing expedition skills, improved fitness and a tremendous sense of achievement.
So lets hope for good weather, no injuries and a successful event for all concerned - in both the Ten Tors and Jubilee Challenge.
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