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Team info sheet, and rules
- Walking adults – All walking adults will have valid and in-date DBS check
- Walking teams
- All teams will carry at least one mobile phone, number to be known to the Hike Co-ordinator
- Teams if they wish may text the Hike Co-ordinator at every check point
- All teams will carry survival bag, first aid kit, two x Hi Viz (not worn except in emergency)
- All teams will nominate ONE Scout as team leader before the hike
- Scouts walking
- All Scouts participating to be in Year 7 or older except by arrangement with GSL and event organiser (DC)
- All Scouts to demonstrate before setting off that they have:
- Magic maker/felt tip/ Sharpie pen
- MAP sheet 187 or similar
- First aid kit and survival bag
- gloves, hat, scarf
- Appropriate outdoor coat
- Boots or stout trainers (not wellies)
- Torch – working
- Sweets/chocolate
- Drink
- Appropriate rucsac to carry the above
- In emergency or event of injury to a team member
- If any team member is injured or incapacitated – whether adult or young person – the team should:
- 1) STOP and make themselves SAFE and/or get into shelter
- 2) STAY TOGETHER – DO NOT SPLIT UP
- 3) CALL FOR HELP Either 999 as necessary and then the Hike Co-ordinator or the District Commissioner
- 4) KEEP WARM – Put on all available extra clothing, eat extra food, and put the injured person in a survival bag as appropriate
- Minibuses
- There should be more than one adult in the minibus at all times when carrying young people
- All minibuses will carry and display a valid Section 19 Permit
- All minibuses will carry a first aid kit, torch and High-viz vest for the driver
- Minibus drivers should have valid DBS
- Minibus drivers should be dressed appropriate to outdoor conditions at night
- Minibus fuel tanks should be more than 1/4 full at all times during the Colditz Night Exercise
- Searching cars
- All searching cars will carry and display to Scout teams, a numbered ID tag
- The principle of “searching” is not to find Scouts but to motivate them to hide
- To repeat: the searchers are not there to FIND the Scouts, they are there to provide an incentive to the Scouts to conceal themselves
- Searching cars will not stop during their searches except for usual purposes of traffic and safety – no silent running, turning off of headlamps or other “lurking” allowed…
- Searching cars will not linger near check points
- Within 100m of check points all Scout teams are in “den” and safe from detection
- No searching to be done alone – pairs of adults only
- All searching adults to have a valid DBS check
- Searching persons should be dressed appropriate to outdoor conditions at night
- Searching cars should carry a first aid kit, torch and High-viz vest for the driver and passenger