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Dowser

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Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« on: May 12, 2012 »
The proposed trip on Sunday 6th May didn't work out but it is a cracking campsite so I'm planning a visit next Friday evening (18th May) if anybody fancies it.

I'll probably leave straight from work and arrive at camp around 19:30.  Not sure what route I will be taking yet, that will be dependant on the weather  ::)

It's been a while since I've been out with you all so hopefully there will be a few people free for night around a fire.  I would also like to do a bit of bushcrafty type stuff but again don't know what that will entail yet.  Might just be cooking a rabbit or something over the fire  :P

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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2012 »
& what a super wee spot
 
           
P5060119 by anne1257, on Flickr
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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2012 »
is anybody going?
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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2012 »
I'm still planning on taking a Dander up, weather permitting. Just going up to relax and enjoy the scenery so if the weathers bad I might end up giving it a miss. This one not intended as an endurance test  ;)
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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2012 »
After contacting Dowser me and a few mates camped out here on Fri and Sat night. Rain on Fri night, dry on Sat. On the Fri night I was fully waterproofed up but got into my bivvi in the wet waterproofs ... by the morning I was dry.

Got a good bit of fuel from the steep slope across the river, mostly dead gorse. Some tiny birch saplings emerging here which I hope can escape the sheep. In the wooded area there is very little regeneration, which is a pity because the mature trees are mostly oaks. There is little wood lying, so not much fuel. We climbed Luke's Mountain on the Saturday for a dander.

There were a pair of grey wagtails nesting just upstream, adults constantly carrying food to their young, there were five chicks in the nest.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/greywagtail/index.aspx

Think we left the place pretty tidy, tidier than it was actually.
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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2012 »
This looks a nice spot! where exactly on the map is it?
And is there much flat land to place a big 6man at all?
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Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2012 »
Quote from: Rory on May 21, 2012
This looks a nice spot! where exactly on the map is it?
And is there much flat land to place a big 6man at all?

If you scroll to the right so you see all of the picture, you'll see the blue line takes you right to it.
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