Operation Red Flare 2004

This year's Operation Red Flare, a 12-mile night hike with 13 checkpoints, 8 incidents, 4 bonus questions and a challenge, took place in the area around Bentley Copse campsite on the night of Saturday 22nd February 2004. Altogether 17 teams – Explorers, Network and Rangers – took part and approximately 50 adults were involved in the running of the event.

The under-18 and overall winners were the Double Dragon Explorer team from Wallington, Carshalton & District with 417 points. The under-18 runners-up were the Erikson team from Richmond upon Thames with 348 points. The over-18 winners and overall runners-up were the Kenley B Team with 379 points and the ladies prize was won by the Fetcham Rangers team with 348 points. A full table of the results is shown below.

Place	Team	District	Time Bonus	Checkpoints	Incidents	Total Points
1st	Double Dragon	Wallington, Carshalton & District	70	120	227	417
2nd	Kenley B	Croydon	52	120	207	379
3rd	Fetcham Rangers	Fetcham	17	120	211	348
	Erikson	Richmond upon Thames	31	120	197	348
5th	Voyager	Kingston & Malden	0	120	202	322
6th	Croham Valley C	Croydon	30	90	200	320
7th	Hampton	Richmond upon Thames	30	90	186	306
8th	Croydon Network	Croydon	0	110	195	305
9th	Colliers	Croydon	0	110	182	292
10th	Kenley A	Croydon	0	90	199	289
11th	Herne Bay A	Canterbury, Whitstable & Herne Bay	13	90	177	280
12th	Cheam Village	Sutton & Cheam	0	90	182	272
13th	Marco Polo	Richmond upon Thames	0	90	162	252
14th	Herne Bay B	Canterbury, Whitstable & Herne Bay	30	60	161	251
15th	Croham Valley B	Croydon	0	70	159	229
16th	Croham Valley A	Croydon	0	70	108	178
17th	Severndroog	Royal Eltham (Greater London South)	0	40	75	115