QMHS DofE: Gold and Silver Qualification 2018

Ribblehead viaduct

Yorkshire Dales 2018 - Simply beautiful when mother nature allows!

This year we had 2 teams qualifying for their Silver and Gold expedition. Our base for the week was Broadrake in Chapel-le-Dale. the above photo was taken early one morning in front of the bunkhouse. It is fair to say that the weather for most of the time was less than ideal. The challenge that the students from Y12 and Y13 took on was significant. The life skills they developed during the week will most definitely be an asset. The determination, team work and resilience that was needed was beyond the normal remit of our expeditions. We were and are so very proud of the students that took part.

Monday 17th September 2018

Heading north - we all need a bite to eat...

Everyone in for the 1st night at Broadrake. Base camp set.

Tuesday 18th September 2018

Gold expedition day 1 and Silver orientation day

Gold are go...

The teams set off into the glad to summit Whernside (736m) as part of their day 1 expedition. Pete Rich of Rich Adventures and Mr. Dalgleish were on support for remote supervision.

Off they go. I think we can have another brew fro now in this lovely Bunkhouse!

Silver orientation day

The rest of the staff and the silver teams set of for Ingleton waterfalls car park from here we planned a circular walk that would allow our silver teams to observe the amazing waterfall and get their navigation heads back on.

Thorton Force

Food and shelter

Which way next...

Next... exped time!

Wednesday 19th - Friday 21st September 2018

Over the next 3 days the Silver teams completed their qualification expedition in some awful weather. The gold teams managed Pen-y-ghent (694m) summit on their final day of expeds but had to adopt their escape plans on day 2 so were unable to do Ingleborough summit due to visability and strong winds. Overall all of the groups did extremely well and had an adventure.