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Title: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: Dowser on May 12, 2012
The proposed trip on Sunday 6th May (http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3262) 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

Quote from: Matthew on May 05, 2012
(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e144/matthewrblack/mountains/Capture-8.jpg)

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Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: Mourneman on May 12, 2012
& what a super wee spot
 
           (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7149674799_09602030af_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79525903@N02/7149674799/)
P5060119 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79525903@N02/7149674799/) by anne1257 (http://www.flickr.com/people/79525903@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: Mourneman on May 15, 2012
is anybody going?
Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: Dowser 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  ;)
Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: sjh1 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 (http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/greywagtail/index.aspx)

Think we left the place pretty tidy, tidier than it was actually.
Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: 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?
Title: Re: Possible Very Short trek and Overnighter
Post by: whoRya 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.