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The Landy Guy:
Got back off my Qualifying Expedition for Duke of Edinburgh Sliver award yesterday evening,

Left early Thursday, got to Trawsfynydd (North wales) at 12 lunch time and me and the rest of my group set off with me leading, hit the 1st check point with no problem, then hit the 2nd checkpoint with also no problems, between the 2nd and the 3rd checkpoint the mist and fog dropped in about 5mins it dropped to about 2ft visibility and we strayed from the path. Tried to get ourselves back to the track but ended up walking in circles.

Found ourselves at Nant Pasgan-Mawr a small bunkhouse situated about 3 miles from the disused Nuclear power station in Trawsfynydd,

We warmed up and found out where we were and then decided the route to get back to the track, so we left the bunkhouse pretty sure we knew where we were going and the mist dropped again and we went too far up the mountain and decided to pitch a tent and try and contact out school leader which we couldn't, so we called the police thinking we might be able to do a phone trace and get a grid ref from them,

The police couldn't give us a grid ref but they said they were going to call us back! this was 7pm and we got a call back from mountain rescue saying that they had sent some guys out to help us off,

The mountain rescue guys found us at 10pm and got us off the mountain at 11pm, we got back to the campsite at 1am, wet cold and tired!

The other 2 days were easy and had no problems what so ever!

Just want to say thank you very much to the Welsh Mountain Rescue Team for acting so fast and finding us with the very vague details we gave then!!!!  :D

I am still up for doing Gold award aswell!

The Landy Guy:
sorry forgot to mention the main bit!

we were picked up by 2 defender 110 ambulances with 2 seats in the front and 3 in the back then a stretcher in the rear! we got 9 people in the 110 we were in! 5 on all the seats, 1 on t he cubby box, and 2 in the rear!

cant beat a good old landy ambulance

TDi90:
omg! what an experience, i love D of E!  8)

Lee_D:
Pah!

When I were a lad you had to make smoke signals from Moss. Grow a Tree, chop it down and hollow it out with a Swiss army knife , then white water raft down the nearest brook to the next checkpoint....

mobile phones indeed!

 :wink:

Enjoyed every minute of my D of E. Put some hairs on me chest and no doubt accounted for a number disappearing from the head too.

pilgrim:
did you have an emergency contact somewhere with a landline?

i am an award supervisor/assessor and it is award policy to ensure that there is always a landline number you can contact. if not, then your supervisor is a bit naughty!

glad it didn't put you off though!

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