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35of a steep hill when we saw the hunter force comprising of some army unit looking up at us down on a road. We just sat there until they finally realised, they would have to come up the hill to us. After a bit we moved off and away, quite confident that they could not catch us. No doubt if they had done so we would have been for it. There were 4 of us in my team and one of them was quite skinny and not all that fit. His brother had been a venture scout and had died of exposure during some scouting activity. One of the RVs was in a wood and we could not find it in the dark. Eventually we were so tired that we decided to stop and wait for daylight. We just stepped off the track, lay down on the ground and immediately fell asleep. After an hour or so we woke up and got ourselves ready to go. We shouted at our weaker colleague who had already annoyed us because, although he was training to be a nav, could not read a map and got us lost. After a bit when he had not moved, we deduced that he had died like his brother and the best thing to do was go on to the RV and tell the directing staff. We really were that tired. Anyway, we set off but had only gone a few yards when we heard a shout and realised, he was not dead after all and he got up and joined us.At one point in the dark, we were walking along a road when we saw car headlights. No problem, I jumped over the low wall but there was a big drop the other side which I and one of the others rolled down losing bits of kit on the way. Once at night, I saw a workman%u2019s bench in the middle of the road with a metal pipe on it and the hand machine that plumbers used to put a thread on galvanised pipes. I knew exactly what it was as when we moved to Little Bookham my father had had central heating installed and I had seen this apparatus then. One of my friendsasked me why I had walked around something. I looked back to point to what it was but there was nothing there. It was just an hallucination. We also kept walking into electric fences which gave us a shock each time causing us to curse the farmers. On the other hand, we did help our-