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Take a hike
PICTURE the Crusades and you conjure
hill walk, bagging two Munros, Ben Macdui and
up images of knights and Saracens,
Cairngorm en route.
sandy fortresses and mediaeval cities.
And when not yomping and climbing around the
Highlands, there were plenty of things to keep the
Scotland probably doesn’t figure.
adventurous bunch busy (or help them relax): health
Cairngorm Crusade 08 was intended to give RN
spa, quiz night, barbecue, plus visits to some of the
personnel north of the border a taste of the outdoors
Cairngorms’ culture.
– in line with Fleet HQ’s growing emphasis on
“Feedback from this year’s personnel confi rmed
adventurous training (AT) and imbuing sailors and
that Cairngorm Crusade was a resounding success,”
marines with added moral toughness.
enthused PO(PT) Rob Greetham.
Three five-day packages of activities – chiefly
“It was a physically and mentally-demanding week
biking, walking and climbing – were organised by
– but also a very enjoyable one, which ticked all the
the team at the AT Store in Clyde Naval Base, who
right boxes and defi nitely achieved its aim of taking
then decamped to the other side of Scotland and the
people out of their comfort zone in a challenging but
Cairngorm National Park.
enjoyable environment.”
Participants – all volunteers – arrived at
Indeed, on the back of feedback from this year’s trip,
Rothiemurchus Lodge, near Aviemore, and were soon
it will return next year (cunningly titled Cairngorm
involved in a nine-kilometre (fi ve-mile) ‘leg stretch’
Crusade 09), likely to be run as two fortnightly
through the Chalamain Gap, a loop beginning and
packages.
ending at the lodge.
That will allow operational units to choose suitable
They were then divided into groups for the
dates outside deployment periods: June 15-19 and
following three days: rock climbing at Huntly’s
22-26 or October 5-9 and 12-16.
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