The Scout incident hike took place on the 23rd March 2002. It was a fourish mile hike around the edge of Harpenden, which en route were 6 incidents, which we had to solve either in a limited time or until the trailing group caught up!! It was a nice walk and (I think!) everyone enjoyed it!

We first got out into patrols, and the first patrol (mine) set off. Our first collision was found when I, being the map reader for our patrol, went the wrong way immediately, which led to us having to get a loft to the first incident.

The first incident was: we had to get a film canister, with some co-ordinates on, out of a vertical drainage pipe without touching either. As we were near the river, we decided we had to 'float' it out. Unluckily (or luckily depending on whose view you look at it), our canister got stuck at the bottom!! We finally got the co-ordinates and set of for incident 2.

Incident no.2 was common sense. We had to move the bottom slab of a pyramid to of one stick and to another. But on top of that were three other decreasing-in-size slabs, AND you could only put slabs on slabs bigger than it. Confused, then see the diagram below.

In incident 3 we had to find as many natural materials as we could and arrange them to spell out the name of one of the patrols. We had to do Bulldogs. This was easy enough!!

Incident 4 was to build a ballista from canes and elastic bands, and try to get it to throw a beanbag as far as possible. We got half an hour to complete the whole task (yep, throws an' all!).

Our next stop was the fire station, where we were marked on how we coped with a certain situation. We had to bring 'Daddy' and the baby downstairs, but 'Daddy' had broken his leg! Also, there was kind of an assault-course-arranged maze for us to get ourselves, and more importantly him, through.

The final incident was a fill-in-the-blanks kind of task, with one person having to cross of co-ordinates as we yelled them at him!! We did total rubbish on this one.

Now we had all the co-ordinates we needed, and using our (yeah right!!) superior mapping and my (that's better!!) search skills, we found our prize, Cadburys cream eggs. "HALF WAY ACROSS HARPENDEN ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE AND THIS IS ALL WE GET, ONE CREAM EGG EACH!!" I hear you scream!!

Overall, it was a very enjoyable day and I think a long walk did everyone some good. Afterwards, there were a couple of quizzes back at the hut, and some of us slept the night there. It really was a lot of fun.