Taking on the ‘Ten Tors Team College-to-Coast Challenge’

On the 8-9 May 2021 12 Fourth Years and 15 Lower Sixth students will take part in the 'Ten Tors Team College-to-Coast Challenge', an alternative event to the cancelled Ten Tors 2021 Challenge event. 

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the two groups of students began training for the Ten Tors Challenge 2021. Since its cancellation due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Churcher’s College Adventurous Activities department came up with an alternative challenge which would demand the same skills, flexibility, resilience and determination to complete it.  

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The Fourth Year teams will now be hiking a total of 35 miles between Churcher’s College and East Head while the Lower Sixth teams will be hiking a total of 45 miles from Churcher’s College via Midhurst and also finishing at East Head. 

Unabated by this shift, students have persevered in their training, adapting as necessary to all the changing lockdown restrictions throughout the past 18 months.  

• They trained as individuals during lockdowns (when restrictions permitted) in their local area, recording their hikes using an app and sending in screenshots as evidence.  
• On 17 April we were able to return to face-to-face training with a six-hour training session which included hiking to the Queen Elizabeth Country Park and then completing the tough orienteering course in daylight, dusk and dark. 
• On 24 April the teams hiked half the distance of their respective challenges - the Fourth Years (35-mile challenge) hiked 17 miles between Marley Common and Churcher’s College via Woolbeding Common while the Lower Sixth (45-mile challenge) hiked 23 miles from Northchapel village over Black Down then past Marley Common and Woolbeding to finish at Durleighmarsh. 

We wish all the teams the very of luck!