Congratulations

Amy, Emily, James, Chris

The day started well for everybody coming out of camp at 7am or shortly after. They only had a relatively small ascent to make today of a mere 500m height gain. Spirits were high, but the clouds weren't - there was a threat of rain. The rain never materialised and after a cool start the day soon heated up into another scorcher.

Peter, George, Jess (blister girl!), Izzy

George found this hat - and felt as if he HAD to wear it all the time!

Becky, Phil, Charlie, Tom, Mandy

This is at thre highpoint of the day - just another 11km and 600m descent from here.

Jess's incredible blisters ! (I've just noticed the fly on the blister!!)

So finally everybody made it back to base camp and so they had all passed their Gold Qualifying expedition. Congratulations to all. We moved on to the debrief and the presentations. It was about this time I found out about Jess's blisters shown above. She had done incredibly well to walk all week with these - done mostly on day 1. Massive congratulations to Jess for continuing with these blisters.

So the scout camp is over, and now the Gold expedition is over. Well done to everybody, and congratulations to Jason for organising such a successful set of events... Jason only has to plan a successful MIA assessment now!