Talk:Ten Tors

message: "Having been informed of this decision, participants spent the night camped at a manned Tor, before being escorted off the moor by the Army the following day.[4]"
AS one of the many on the moor that day i can contradict that. No teams were told that they were being pulled off on saturday, the army realised how pissed people would get if they did. They just stopped all the teams and told them to camp and told them they would be allowed to leave again in the morning. Just before 6 the next morning(the time the tor opens) they then said the tor opening would be postponed and for people to put tents back up and get in them. A while later they were then told they were all being pulled off.
Other tors were told they were being pulled off earlier on sunday but i have never heard anywhere of any team being told Saturday. none of the many teams we met sunday had. We were all expecting to be carrying on...
</rant> 84.65.179.251 (talk) 21:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007

message: I've put a cross-link to the Four Inns Walk held in Derbyshire at Easter, though this a competitive 1-day outing, and is usually tackled by Rover Scouts and teams of club runners and strong walkers.
80.177.213.144 13:34, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Four Inns Walk

message: It struck me that this page seemed to be both a little vague and somewhat outdated, so I've made the edits detailed below:
I have added a sentence to the first paragraph defining the general geographic scope from which entrants are drawn.  I have added details of the number of routes to the second paragraph, changed "captain" to "team leader", which is what it is called in the rules, removed the reference to a navigator, which is incorrect, and added the age limits.  I have added to the third paragraph a reference to the importance of navigation to the event. Along with some minor changes to the fourth paragraph, I have removed the passage about cryptosporidium: teams currently have to collect water from the moor, and have done since 2003, at least.  I have broadly rewritten the fifth paragraph to give a more accurate indication of the timings and conditions for awarding of the medal.  I have added the name of the Jubilee Challenge to the eigth paragraph.  I have corrected the out-of-date link to the official website.
Hope this is all okay.
sjcollier 18:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: As referred to above - I've removed this piece One infamous training location is the section of the West Okement valley that divides Amicombe Hill and Kitty Tor to the south-west from High Willhays and Yes Tor to the north-east, and which has been nicknamed 'Death Valley' as five separate sets of human bones, showing signs of trauma were found at the bottom. as to me it is a hoax.  It really should not go back in within some respected sourcing.  --Herby talk to me 09:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoax?

message: I've changed the year Ten Tors resumed after the Foot-and-Mouth outbreak from 2003 to 2002 - I guess '03 was a typo - Ten Tors 2002 did indeed happen; 391 teams started and 336 finished, complete or otherwise. TenTorsWebmasterUK (talk) 21:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Typos?

message: ==== Ten Tors 2011 ====
This section is at odds with the facts for that year, and needs fixing.
From the Ten Tors website notes (and photos) for 2011 (Ten Tors 2011), the Challenge that year started under a clear blue sky, but cloud obscured the tops of West Mill and High Willhays even then.  By 09:38 "after a beautiful start to the day we have more cloud building up" and at 17:50 a note "the day started bright and blue but fresh, then clouded over, threatening but failing to rain.  Now evening is almost with us a blue sky is breaking through and the Teams should be able to make camp in the dry".  Sunday was very similar with the first finishers (M1306 - Downend Scouts, at 08:35 Route M listing, 2011 ) walking in under a blue sky, but at 15:16 the site notes: "With just under two hours to go the cloud has gathered through the day and now it's fairly grey". Notes from the Event
It turned out that the largely overcast and cool weekend was almost perfect walking weather - of the 390 Teams which started 374 (95%) walked over the finish line, and of those finishing Teams 316 (81%) walked in Complete, with all six team members.  Over the fifteen year existence of the Ten Tors website this is the highest percentage of both Finishing and Complete Teams.  Sixteen Teams either retired (just 7, less than 2%) or were 'crashed out', but even here the stats are impressive - in all other years covered by the site Teams are noted as stopping at their second Tor onwards.  In 2011 the first Teams to stop reached their fifth Tor before doing so.  2011 was a remarkable year.  (These stats were derived from the 'All Teams' list for the year Ten Tors Teams, 2011 )
I'm more than happy to discuss replacement wording - TenTorswebmaster (talk) 19:06, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed corrections to Ten Tors 2011 section 

message: This section is at odds with the facts for that year, and needs fixing.
From the Ten Tors website notes (and photos) for 2011 (Ten Tors 2011), the Challenge that year started under a clear blue sky, but cloud obscured the tops of West Mill and High Willhays even then.  By 09:38 "after a beautiful start to the day we have more cloud building up" and at 17:50 a note "the day started bright and blue but fresh, then clouded over, threatening but failing to rain.  Now evening is almost with us a blue sky is breaking through and the Teams should be able to make camp in the dry".  Sunday was very similar with the first finishers (M1306 - Downend Scouts, at 08:35 Route M listing, 2011 ) walking in under a blue sky, but at 15:16 the site notes: "With just under two hours to go the cloud has gathered through the day and now it's fairly grey". Notes from the Event
It turned out that the largely overcast and cool weekend was almost perfect walking weather - of the 390 Teams which started 374 (95%) walked over the finish line, and of those finishing Teams 316 (81%) walked in Complete, with all six team members.  Over the fifteen year existence of the Ten Tors website this is the highest percentage of both Finishing and Complete Teams.  Sixteen Teams either retired (just 7, less than 2%) or were 'crashed out', but even here the stats are impressive - in all other years covered by the site Teams are noted as stopping at their second Tor onwards.  In 2011 the first Teams to stop reached their fifth Tor before doing so.  2011 was a remarkable year.  (These stats were derived from the 'All Teams' list for the year Ten Tors Teams, 2011 )
I'm more than happy to discuss replacement wording - TenTorswebmaster (talk) 19:06, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ten Tors 2011 

message: Sadly the note on the entry for 2009 "20th Torbay Explorer Scouts became the first organisation to cross the line first on consecutive years" is not correct.  Plymouth DofE Award 45 did so in 2002 (at 09:23) and in 2003 (at 08:49), in each instance as a Complete team.  See All Teams list, 2002 and All Teams list, 2003 - the entry for 2010, noting that the 20th Torbay Explorer Scouts led the Teams home for three consecutive years, marks a truly impressive achievement! All Teams list, 2010  (These 'all Teams' lists are created to a tight format - it is possible to sort them on column 136 to list the Teams in time order...) TenTorswebmaster (talk) 14:12, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ten Tors 2009 

message: Having seen no responses I've applied the edits mentioned above, and added stats for most years.  I've also added what I hope is clarification to the original 'Teams of four to six...' text.  I've inserted 'Dartmoor Plodders' to the 2004 section and added a paragraph to 2012 relating to X2414 Kingsbridge Community College.  As before, I'm happy to discuss the changes, and apologies in advance if I've misused 'cites' and links.  TenTorswebmaster (talk) 17:00, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits applied... 

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message: Anyone know the 55 record please? AlistairPeebles (talk) 17:28, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ten tor’s