AUTUMN  TRAIL 2/10/2005
What's an Autumn Trail - well it changes each year but this year it was based on a theme of "Lost Photographs" and was pitched somewhere between a Treasure Hunt and a Naviscat. Tim had taken some photographs during the summer but lost the locations - the task was to help him find those locations armed with a a map, some co-ordinates and some cryptic clues. Find the locations on the map - navigate your way there - identify the location - identify a bonus photo and answer another cryptic clue - easy !!

If only some of the answers hadn't been moved ! Doh !.
If you go down to the woods today .....you'll find seven MGF/TFs hidden in a forest car park. Well here we are glinting in the sunlight at the Ockham Car Park. at10.JPG (122960 bytes) Sally & Johns F lead the field. at03.JPG (105374 bytes)
at01.JPG (121874 bytes) Time for a natter before the serious business begins. at02.JPG (107951 bytes) Nervous tension is increasing
We're off - time to delve in to that question sheet - Here is Kevin getting stuck into the plotting with rest of the field sitting in their cars behind him. at04.JPG (102432 bytes) Emma and dad looking perplexed before they realised one of the clues is actually at Ockham Car park !!

 

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at06.JPG (76279 bytes) Cars primed and ready to go. at09.JPG (124257 bytes) Emma speeds off - never to be seen again - Come in Emma your time is up - she is heading for the biggest minus score in the history of Autumn Trails - makes Don & Liza being 65 minutes late at the finish look like small fry !! Where's your answer sheet ?
Some cars arrived at the finish point of The Anchor at Pyrford Lock on time -  some were late and one never seen again !! at07.JPG (93454 bytes) We did manage to work out a winner in the end - Well done to Kevin and to Tony & Lynne who were runners up by just one point - five minutes earlier back at The Anchor and they'd have won ! at08.JPG (100988 bytes)
at11.JPG (111191 bytes) Just a sample of the clues - This is the photo of the Ockham Bites Cafe - Everyone was facing it and it still took twenty minutes to realise ! at12.JPG (114272 bytes) The bonus was a little more difficult - the question was What Can't you do in general public ?  - The answer - "Galloping or jumping" found on that notice board - but first you had to find the board which proved not to be as easy as you'd think.!