Ten Tors 2010 - Diary...

With a little less than an hour to go to the close of Ten Tors 2010, there are only about twenty-five Teams left out on the Moor - and a glance through the Route cards shows a lot of Complete Teams coming in - fantastic effort!!

We're coming up to the big push - there will be a huge number of Teams coming in over the next couple of hours. If you're wondering when your Team might finish, visit the map link on their route card and see how far they have left, or try the Calculator on the FAQ page...

Our broadband link from Dartmoor is creaking under the load - you've probably noticed the patchy Route card updates. We're taking lots of photos, but we can't squeeze them up to the web site over the link - we'll upload them all this evening and tomorrow. Judging by the crowd at the finish line though most of you are here in person, applauding them over the line!! Brilliant stuff!

Welcome to Ten Tors Sunday - your Teams are coming home! The webcam is now live on an overcast and chilly Anthony's Stile - and Emit's tracker site is now on-line, follow this link, and select your Team(s) from the drop-down list.

More Teams are camping now, and we'll leave the updates running overnight so that you can check up on them all, but not much will happen after about 21:00 (check the camping rules, below). Spare them all a thought as you head for your beds, your Teams will be climbing into their possibly less welcoming sleeping bags, and if you possibly can be here tomorrow to welcome them home please do - it will be an unforgettable day!

The Route cards are showing a few of the Teams as 'Camping' now, and a little explanation might be needed:

no Team may pass a Tor checkpoint after 20:00
Teams on 35-mile Routes (A to L) must camp at a manned checkpoint
If the staff at a checkpoint calculate that a 35-mile Team will not reach their next checkpoint before 20:00, the Team will be stopped where they are
(A quick look at your Team's Route map should show why they're camping where they are)
Teams on 45- and 55-mile Routes (M - V and W - Z) may pass a Tor checkpoint at any time before 20:00, then camp at any sensible point on their route
(Many 45- and 55-mile Teams will scramble to pass one of their checkpoints shortly before 20:00, then walk on into the night and aim to camp just short of their next Tor, ready for an 06:00 start on Sunday morning)
The final part of the Camping rules are that no Team may pass its ninth Tor (?!) on Day One of the Event

We've been off down the Moor to meet a few of the Teams crossing to the South Moor, and while it's grey and drizzling here at Okehampton, it's dry and cool down there. The Teams we had a word with said they were feeling fit - and they looked it - but no doubt they'll be looking forward to a meal and a few hours sleep, after they've stacked on a few more miles! We have photos, but you've seen some of the Route Cards go blank through the morning as we were trying to squeeze the last batch up the line - we'll upload later.

We're starting to see a few fallouts on the Route cards - these appear as letters in the 'Fallouts & Status' column on the Route Cards. If these apply to your Team, follow this link for an explanation. Essentially a letter (representing a Team member) in the Status column of a Route Card means that the individual is safe and is in the recovery system, on their way back to Okehampton and their Team Manager.

Sat 08-May-2010 at 10:12:33 - Updated:

We're removing the link to the Emit tracker site while they clear the problems - once they're resolved we'll reinstate the pointer, apologies, but we hope you're following your Teams' progress on the Route cards here!

Sat 08-May-2010 at 09:41:18 - Updated:

Our broadband link from Okehampton has a few issues - we're attempting to upload the photos, but they're killing the link throughput. We'll get there, but not as fast as we'd like... meanwhile your Teams are putting in a sterling effort on their routes, enjoy!!

The Teams were unleashed on their routes a few minutes ago, and we'll post 'Photos' on the link opposite as soon as we can. You'll be eager to see when they reach (and they'll be eager to get to) their first Tor checkpoints. The web site is linked directly to the Ten Tors control system and we'll have regular updates (every fifteen minutes) detailing the Teams' progress - you'll have the information as soon as it's reached us!

The Tor closest to the start is Oke Tor, about 4km from the start, and is visited by four routes on the outward journey. The Teams on the 45-mile Route T are likely to reach it just ahead of their 35-mile colleagues, at around 07:45 - you'll have time for coffee and toast while the Teams head towards their first checkpoints - breakfast for them will already be a distant memory...
The 'live tracking' feature seems to have a few issues just now - the Emit guys are checking it out - please bear with them...

The uploads are still occasionally patchy, but with just eleven Teams left to register we'll leave them running unmanned overnight... some photos to upload later from a chilly Teams' campsite, but other than cool the weather is being fairly kind - hope it stays this way tomorrow and Sunday!

The Teams will be told the routes they've been assigned when they register, from 10:00 this morning, then they'll begin the task of plotting their exact paths across the Moor. We'll publish the Route allocations here, as soon as possible after 10:00, then we'll track them as registration of the 400 Teams proceeds through the day.

A few shots from the end of the afternoon on the photos link, focusing on the Sea Kings ferrying out the Tor parties to the more remote checkpoints - while the Ten Tors managers and support crews were putting the finishing touches to the Teams' camp at the other end of the site.

We're live from Okehampton Camp! In between connecting up kit I'm attempting to keep up with your emails - weather here is a gentle drizzle, with the near Tors hovering in and out of the mist. Looks set to improve slowly over the weekend, meanwhile the Teams' campsite is filling. Hope to get a photo or two later this afternoon to set the scene!

We're on our way! The website has packed all its bits into a backpack and it's heading for Okehampton. Updates could be patchy until mid-morning tomorrow, when we should be reconnected to the world. See you there!!

Ten Tors on your iPhone! Bristol Cabot Scouts have crafted a site to deliver the crucial times-at-Tors in a more iPhone-friendly way than the generic mobile phone site can. If you have an iPhone, enter the URL: www.cabottentors.org.uk/iPhone/ and give it a spin!

The web site is moving up a gear for Ten Tors 2010 - there are a few more links to check out in the list opposite:

● all the Teams	the list of all 400 Teams and the latest status of each
● Team Update	list of any status changes over the last 15 minutes
● Team Status...	get a map of where your Team is on the Moor
● Site Search...	find that vital piece of information on the site
● Webcam...	a view of the Teams over the Event
● Photos...	from the Event weekend

These are waiting for Ten Tors 2010 to begin - no information will be available on these links until 10:00 on Friday, 7-May, when the Teams find out which Routes they'll be walking. Team allocations to Routes will be posted here as close to 10:00 as possible, and from then until 17:00 on Sunday this site will be updated direct from the Ten Tors control system every fifteen minutes.

Ten Tors 2010 Diary: the build-up