Patron's Exercise 2013

William Gronow-DavisThe weekend of the 5 & 6th of October (later than in previous years) has been set aside for the 2013 Patrons Exercise. Hosted by our Patron William Gronow-Davis on his Rushmore Estate.

We thank William for his continued enthusiastic support and encouragement of DorSAR on a day to day, year to year basis and in particular for the use of the Rushmore Estate to run this Exercise Weekend. The event has been aptly named the Patron's Exercise.

The weekend has multiple objectives, from serious search practice, a chance to socialise and opportunities to gain new skills in differing areas of search & rescue.

Camping is available from 17.00hrs 04/09/2013 until 13.00 06/09/2013 at Park Cottage Stables (see below for location references)

As we are guests on Williams land attendees must be pre-known and 'booked in' so it is essential that if you wish to attend you have registered this with Simon Thomas (Operations Coordinator) ASAP ideally by 18:00hrs Sunday 29th September.

Venue: Rushmore Estate Tollard Royal.

Camping

Grid: ST 94030 17470, Lat/Long: 50.956622, -2.0863650, Post Code (nearest): SP5 5PU.

Camping in Angie's field from Friday evening at 5.00pm.

A single Port-a-loo will be available on site from the Friday for use until Sunday.

Exercise to start at 9.00am on the Saturday morning and be concluded for the day session by 16.30hrs to allow the game birds to roost for the evening.

Ex Plane DownWe will break around 5.00- 5.30 pm for an evening meal prepared by Angie.

18.30-19.00hrs start evening search exercise using the surrounding woodland. We plan to end the evening exercise at 9.00pm.

Breakfast Sunday 8.00-8.30 Angie has said that she will provide some bacon rolls for breakfast.

Cas CareFrom 9.00am on Sunday we plan to run some equipment familiarisation exercises (specialist stretchers and medical equipment) and also the first introduction to most members of the new Cycle search competence (a non- compulsory Basic Competence) . There will be 3 sessions lasting 1 hour each and repeated 3 times as the teams revolve to have a go at each event.

We plan to end the weekend exercise by midday and will have cleared the site by 13.00hrs.

The Rushmore Estate is an active Shooting Estate, it is essential that we observe that the birds will be roosting in the evening/night and do our very best to cause as little noise and disturbance as possible.

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