{"id":1489,"date":"2013-07-07T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T06:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-07-29T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T09:15:10","slug":"doan-bivvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/doan-bivvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Doan Bivvy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning to meetup on Meelbeg<\/a>, but ended up running late\/biting off a bit too much.<\/p>\n

2100 start from Carrick (plant) Little car park. Planning to do another bivvy<\/a> on the top of Ben Crom, while watching out for lights from Meelbeg<\/a>. Hit Ben Crom dam just as all light was failing. Anyone know if there are fish in BenCrom? Saw several big ripple marks being formed on the water, insects being eaten off the surface from below by fish or above by bats.<\/p>\n

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2330 no sign of light at the top of Meelbeg (you guys must have been around the other side), decided to find a spot high on the side of Doan instead (catches the sun early). Came face-to-face with a badger on the Ben Crom River, it ran that way, I ran the other way and Bow spent a couple of minutes rubbing himself in the spot the badger had been in before I figured out when he was up to (great, badger fleas in the sleeping bag!)<\/p>\n

0000 found a spot almost at the top of Doan in a large patch of Bog Cotton (anyone else notice that bog cotton has gone mad this year? There is tonnes of it about). Nice view down Silent Valley. Watched clouds roll in around Donard and drift down the valleys, hoping for a cloud inversion.<\/p>\n

0500 Sun woke me up. Photo, roll over, sleep.<\/p>\n

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0700 With no wind, the midges were out in force. Woke up being eaten. Another quick photo and up to the summit were the wind was just enough to keep them away. Big monster Spanish omelet for breakfast (eggy burps for the rest of the morning!)<\/p>\n

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Sat am\/pm: Dropped down and over to the foot of Bearnagh. Contoured around to Hares Gap. Along the Brandy Pad, then down beside the Annalong River to Carrick Little, with lots of water stops along the way to cool down. Back to car park at 1700…was wee bit broken.<\/p>\n

Original thread here. With thanks to Chuck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planning to meetup on Meelbeg, but ended up running late\/biting off a bit too much. 2100 start from Carrick (plant) Little car park. Planning to do another bivvy on the top of Ben Crom, while watching out for lights from Meelbeg. Hit Ben Crom dam just as all light was failing. Anyone know if there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}