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Fuck Dartmoor.
>Silver DoE Dartmoor hike roughly 4 years ago
>Missed the sign up for bronze the year before but felt ready to go straight into silver, only extra challenge was the extra day of hiking but thought nothing of it
>Picked on in school so the rest of the group didn't like me at all. DId what I could to help with planning the route though
>Practice hike, got shit advice from teacher running it and had all of the heavy stuff at the bottom of my pack, clothes folded and not rolled, being forced to wear poorly fitted plastic tick protector things (I've forgotten the proper name for them) instead of just tucking my trousers into my socks or using tick repellent and so on. Pack never settled well around hips and I was dragging everyone down and it made me feel like shit.
>Two months before the actual hike I start walking even more than I did before, from my usual hour a day to two or three with weekends for resting, never been on /fit/ then if it was even up back then and no one in my group wanted to talk to me let alone help me.
>Teacher running the trip decides to "treat" us with a barbeque on the night before the first day. We were told to bring meat to cook on it.
>Once the barbeque is ready everyone puts lots of meat on except me as they took up all the space, told to "wait my turn"
>Finally everyone finishes cooking, not as hot as it was before. That night I get up and throw up in the bushes after what I realise now was eating almost raw meat.
>Feel weak the entire first day, start getting moaned at by everyone near the end as I slow down from my still poorly adjusted pack.
>Second day start out okay but drag everyone down once my blister starts breaking through my patch.
>Third day told by third party judicator that we would have to walk constantly to make up for the distance we lost in the last two days. As it was foggy and my blister got worse I was told to wait with the organisers while the rest finished
>cont...
