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Title: Frozen shoes!
Post by: chris on February 03, 2010
Took a little jaunt up the mournes there with the dog and camped just between cove and beg. There was a lot of surface run off about and it was hard to find a dry spot for the tent. Got it up eventually and got the head down. When I woke up this morning everything had frozen! There were icicles on the inside of my flysheet, the tent was frozen to the ground and my shoes had frozen solid (took me nearly an hour to get them on!) and it had started snowing! Good times in the mournes! ;D
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: simon on February 03, 2010
 :D Good stuff!

Could be a case for carrying a few plastic bags - bung your shoes inside and put them in your sleeping bag. I sleep with my water inside my bag so that it doesn't freeze overnight ... although this only works if you trust you bottle not to leak!
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: Spark on February 03, 2010
Class   :o
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: fatty-arbuckle on February 03, 2010
Hi chris, finally got myself onto the website!

Phots to follow.....

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww89/fatty_arbuckle/DSC_00532.jpg)
You can just make out the horizontal snow.

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww89/fatty_arbuckle/DSC_00433.jpg)

(http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww89/fatty_arbuckle/DSC_00324.jpg)
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: ulsterwalker on February 03, 2010
Sounds like banter  :D
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: chris on February 03, 2010
lol your on the site 10mins and you can embed photos in a post, I still don't know hoe to do it! On a side note could someone explain it too me!
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: suspectmonkey on February 03, 2010
Quote from: chris_8764 on February 03, 2010
you can embed photos in a post, I still don't know hoe to do it! On a side note could someone explain it too me!

Just click the "insert image" symbol (its the one under the italics button) and it will put IMG (image) tags into your post, like this [ img][/img ].

Now paste the web link for your photo between the img] and the [/img tags.  For example, one of the images above has the web address http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww89/fatty_arbuckle/DSC_00532.jpg.  So paste that web address between the two tags like so:

[ img]http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww89/fatty_arbuckle/DSC_00532.jpg[/img ]

Now click Post, or Preview to check if its worked.  Et voila, embedded image!

By the way, that looks like a class wee camping trip :)
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: RedLeader on February 03, 2010
Looks like a great trip. How did the Pro Action cope with the ice and snow?
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: billy56 on February 04, 2010
what about the dog hopefully it did,nt freeze to anything!!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Frozen shoes!
Post by: fatty-arbuckle on February 04, 2010
The dog didnt freeze - but it did eat my sausage breakfast  ;D