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ramtopsyesterday we went for another walk; we left it a bit late, not leaving the house till about 3.30, so I was quite adamant I didn't want to go too far.
we decided to go to the Blaise Castle Estate, which is about five miles from where we live. It's lovely, although a little steep in places. And, with hindsight, going down a bridleway after all the rain we had was perhaps unwise - wading through three inches of mud, even in proper walking boots, is hard work.
the rain came down, but we didn't care - we had proper waterproofs. And then the sun came out again, so we packed them away and tramped onwards. And onwards and onwards and onwards. I'm really not quite sure how we got so badly off the track we were meant to be following, but we were just on the last quarter mile to the car at about 8 p.m., when the heavens opened again. The rain came down so strong and so hard that we were wet through before we had a chance to get the waterproofs out of the pack.
we arrived back at the Moose in an extremely soggen condition (i.e. soaked, literally, to the skin, and frozen), and squelched our way home to hot showers and baths, and huge slabs of Dexter steak with chips.
we decided to go to the Blaise Castle Estate, which is about five miles from where we live. It's lovely, although a little steep in places. And, with hindsight, going down a bridleway after all the rain we had was perhaps unwise - wading through three inches of mud, even in proper walking boots, is hard work.
the rain came down, but we didn't care - we had proper waterproofs. And then the sun came out again, so we packed them away and tramped onwards. And onwards and onwards and onwards. I'm really not quite sure how we got so badly off the track we were meant to be following, but we were just on the last quarter mile to the car at about 8 p.m., when the heavens opened again. The rain came down so strong and so hard that we were wet through before we had a chance to get the waterproofs out of the pack.
we arrived back at the Moose in an extremely soggen condition (i.e. soaked, literally, to the skin, and frozen), and squelched our way home to hot showers and baths, and huge slabs of Dexter steak with chips.
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Oh dear :(
Date: 2004-06-28 01:24 am (UTC)I have a related problem - I keep having to stop the motorbike and read maps. Which is a royal pain in the neck, and a worse one if I don't as I inevitably get things wrong navigating on spec.
So I bought a GPS. It's a joy. For walking, you can get nice little ones just perfect for being out and about, but perhaps the thing that will sell it to you (as it did to me) is that there's a company that does Ordnance Survey mapping on computer, and you can download walking waypoints into the GPS directly from the OS map.
Actually..
Date: 2004-06-28 01:28 am (UTC)Re: Oh dear :(
Date: 2004-06-28 02:01 am (UTC)I'm v. tempted to upgrade to a StreetPilot though - I need to upgrade the storage anyway to fit more bits of map in so what's another couple of hundred quid on top of what I'm spending already? :-)