By: Blonde Two
Tonight is a very exciting night dear Blondees and Blondettes (cue drum roll) … tonight is NightNavOff night. The Two Blondes will be heading for Dartmoor in a few hours armed with compasses, maps, each other and a booked pub meal. We have been sent our “RV”, a secret location on Dartmoor. At 17:00 hours we will be meeting our course assessors (who appear to be feeling quite mean today) and being given our instructions. After that will follow some time of wandering round the moor looking for small things in small places (I mean a time of careful calculation and navigation!) We may not now have a boys and a girls team as some boys have dropped out (I couldn’t possibly comment on this). A few options present themselves; a) two mixed teams (one of the remaining boys each), b) the Two Blondes against “the rest of the world” or c) some girls becoming honorary boys for the night.
Looking at the weather today, I am fairly convinced that we have made a timing error as I will be doing my chores during the sunny daytime and waiting for the dark, when it will undoubtedly be quite chilly, to have my walk.
Like with all Blonde planning, things have had to be dynamic – I think we are only up to Plan C though which, for us, is impressive. Last weekend with Ten Tors had us calculating Plan Z on the run (I did actually run – but only briefly!). Right back at the start of the planning for NightNavOff, I wrote a few rules. Like our planning, these expanded exponentially (maths word!) – I thought you would like to see the most important ones;
Altimeter? Bear packed. See you at 2!
No altimeter … good news about bear. Looking forward to it!
Such a fun sounding idea!
Have fond memories of doing night exercises with the Venture Scouts on the New Forest, navigating to various ‘checkpoints’ where we would have to do problem-solving tasks or other challenges successfully before being told the location of the next checkpoint that we had to get to. We’d be competing against teams from other local packs of Ventures, and it was always a blast!
Looking forward to the NightnavOff blog post 🙂
It really was a tremendously good evening – post be written as we speak!