Tors Challenge
For those who aren't aware, across Dartmoor are hundreds of Tors, the army hold a yearly '10 Tor Challenge' creating routes between the Tors and raising money for their charities.
We aim to do something similar but on a slightly smaller, less intensive scale.
We want to do this to celebrate Keira and her warrior status while raising money along the way for the charities that helped Keira and the whole family.
We will be raising money buy each person completing a mile and adding this to the group total of 452 miles. Each mile represents a bead of courage Keira earned during her cancer treatment and each bead represents something Keria had to go through. For example, chemo, blood taken, an operation, hair loss, and each night in hospital.
Below, is the details of each Tor we are planning, the route, timings and details of accommodation options.
Once the walking is over we hope you will join us for a party to really celebrate out beautiful daughter.
Date: 24th July
We shall be staying at the campsite on Friday 23rd July and Saturday 24th July, leaving after a nice breakfast on Sunday morning.
Location: Princetown Devon
The main event will be coordinated from the Plume of Feathers Campsite. We have also secured accommodation here.
We have rented out a function room for Saturday 24th July for lunch and dinner celebrations.
See later for the 7 stages of the walk, we anticipate people will want to complete different stages of the walk, with others staying at the campsite. At the campsite we aim to have children’s activities and tea/coffee whilst others are completing the walk. This allows parents to swap different sections of the walk, certain parts we expect children to be able to join in. The campsite will also be the location for our late afternoon / evening celebrations.
Times
Detailed times are provided in the section breakdown. Key times are:
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Setting off at 0830 for section 1. (You can arrive at the campsite to start later sections later in the day)
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Cars depart for section 2 drop off at 1030
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Lunch at the campsite 1200
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Setting off from the campsite for section 3 at 1300
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All back at the campsite for approximately 1700
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Dinner at the campsite from 1730
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Evening events / celebrations from 1830
Accommodation
The obvious accommodation is to join us camping at the plume of feathers campsite! No need to book for tents but please let us know your intentions so that we know how many tents we are expecting.
The plume of feathers has 2 Bunkhouses with different sets of rooms. We have provisionally requested all the new bunkhouse rooms so please contact us if you would like one of these rooms. If we don’t have anyone request to book the bunkhouse by late May we will have to let this provisional booking go.
As a separate company the plume of feathers inn has a B&B. They are not aware of our party and I have no idea if they have availability.
There are many other local B&B’s and hotels in the local area. Please book these independently from ourselves.
Stage 1
Depart from the campsite at 0830.
Arrival at car layby ~1030
Tors: 3: Kings Tor, Ingra Tor, Leeden Tor
Finish. Either continue walking onto stage 2, or transport can collect from the roadside. A good location to swap with a partner if sharing parental responsibilities. Please note there isn’t a car park here but there will be many cars from the campsite which can offer transportation from / to this location.
Number of Beads per person: 5
Stage 2
Depart from the car layby at 1045. Please note – cars will depart from the campsite at 1030 to drop people off at this location. It is not possible to park in the layby but we expect there will be shuttle cars from the campsite to this location.
Arrival at campsite ~1200
Tors: 3: Black Tor, Hart Tor, South Hessary Tor
Finish. At the campsite for lunch with wider party.
Number of Beads per person: 3
Stage 3
Depart from the campsite 1300.
Arrival at Four Winds Car Park ~1400
Tors: 3: North Hessary Tor, Rundlestone Tor, Hollow Tor
Finish. At the Four Winds Car Park. Meet up with any party members that wish to drive to the car park to complete the next stages from there. A good route for children who can push themselves with walking. Younger children can be driven to the car park to start from the next stage.
Number of Beads Per Person: 2
Stage 4
This is the big one! We hope everyone can join this stage to walk to Little Miss Tor. Our nickname for Keira from day one of knowing she was a girl has been little miss. We had no idea when we thought of this weekend that there was a Tor called Little Miss. We had to make sure this was in-cooperated and once we've reached it we will doing doing our celebration for Keira here.
The path from the car park is gravel underfoot. It appears to be buggy / wheelchair / mobility scooter accessible.
Depart from the Four Winds Car Park 1415.
Arrival at Little Miss Tor ~1500 (taking this part of the walk slowly)
Tors: 1: Little Miss Tor
Finish. At Little Miss Tor. At which point you can join stage 5 to visit Great Mis Tor, wait at little Mis Tor for the group to rejoin, or start to return to the car park (stage 6).
Number of Beads Per Person: 1
Stage 5
A Quick extension of the walk up to Great Mis Tor. There is no track from Little Mis Tor to Great Mis Tor so this is only accessible to those able to walk over moor ground.
Depart from Little Miss Tor. 1515
Arrival back at Little Miss Tor to rejoin group ~1540
Tors: 1: Great Mis Tor
Finish. At Little Miss Tor. Must continue to stage 6 to return to car park!
Number of Beads Per Person: 1
Stage 6
A simple return down the track back to the car park.
Depart from Little Miss Tor. 1540
Arrival back at Four Winds Car Park ~1600
Tors: 0:
Finish. At the Four Winds Car park. At this stage we will have set up a car shuttle to run people back to the campsite. Anyone that drove here to start stage 4 from here can obviously drive straight back to the campsite. (And maybe offer others lifts!)
Number of Beads Per Person: 1
Stage 7
An opportunity to get those extra miles and beads in. A potential optional route which can be chosen on the day, if tired can catch the car shuttle after stage 6, if feeling good can add this bit onto the walk.
Depart from Four Winds Car Park. 1600
Arrival back at Campsite ~ 1715
Tors: 0:
Finish. Back at the campsite ready for a full meal and a night of socialising and celebrating!
Number of Beads Per Person: 3
Time to RSVP
We would love as many people as possible to join us. Below is an RSVP form. Please fill this out so we have an Idea of who will be joining in and also so we can send you a sponsorship form.
Please RSVP for each person who will be attending with you.
