Halloween Camp 2013

[RedLeader]

I'm a bit tired of complex camping meals. Am thinking maybe just some good quality burgers and sausages with maybe some bacon thrown in for good measure! You not having the usual half dozen steaks

Such a shame it's giving rain after today being so cold and crisp
You decided on food yet Jonno?
I reckon a medley of meats with Jack Daniels sauce

[Ed]

I was thinking early on some noodles to keep me going with a big feed of steak later on. Just two steaks tho, my usual half dozen just gets expensive sometimes ;-)

I'll be bringing the reactor for easy brews too

[RedLeader]

What sort of noodles do you go for? I was just thinking that where there's water and easy boiling it makes sense to throw some noodles in the pack in case of hunger. They weigh next to nothing and are tasty and full of energy.

I was thinking early on some noodles to keep me going with a big feed of steak later on. Just two steaks tho, my usual half dozen just gets expensive sometimes ;-)

I'll be bringing the reactor for easy brews too

[Ed]

Usually I bring a pot noodle for the first bite, and super noodles to eat out of the pot afterward if I get peckish later on. Goes well with some dried meat to chuck in with it. The pot noodle pot saves me crapping up a perfectly good bowl too.
Im bringing a water carrier to make bringing water over from the river that wee bit handier, suspended from tree with a guyline / paracord / that roll of string dowser stashed and we literally have water on tap. Wee tap on it, quite a novelty lol

[RedLeader]

Genius. I'm a big Super Noodle fan myself. They're tasty and super easy to make, though like you say, the pot takes a bit of cleaning without decent running water. I can't get behind Pot Noodles though. They taste great at the time but I'm usually still tasting them a few hours later

Usually I bring a pot noodle for the first bite, and super noodles to eat out of the pot afterward if I get peckish later on. Goes well with some dried meat to chuck in with it. The pot noodle pot saves me crapping up a perfectly good bowl too.
Im bringing a water carrier to make bringing water over from the river that wee bit handier, suspended from tree with a guyline / paracord / that roll of string dowser stashed and we literally have water on tap. Wee tap on it, quite a novelty lol

[specimanYak]

As i've just received the following email, the Super Noodles are on me:

"We Donated 2,000,000 dollars to you
Please contact:
Name: Gloria Mackenzie.
Email: [email protected]
Regard,
Dale Penrod"

So that's roughly two million packs of noodles then, may need a hand with them. 

Genius. I'm a big Super Noodle fan myself. They're tasty and super easy to make, though like you say, the pot takes a bit of cleaning without decent running water. I can't get behind Pot Noodles though. They taste great at the time but I'm usually still tasting them a few hours later

Usually I bring a pot noodle for the first bite, and super noodles to eat out of the pot afterward if I get peckish later on. Goes well with some dried meat to chuck in with it. The pot noodle pot saves me crapping up a perfectly good bowl too.
Im bringing a water carrier to make bringing water over from the river that wee bit handier, suspended from tree with a guyline / paracord / that roll of string dowser stashed and we literally have water on tap. Wee tap on it, quite a novelty lol

[RedLeader]

Some of us are going to take the kids for a wander up to Percy Bysshe Caves before Annalong Wood on Saturday. It's only up the Annalong Valley from the wood anyway. The weather is a bit variable and we don't want to be monkeying around in the dark so we're intending to leave Carrick Plant Hire Car Park at 1pm ish. Anyone who wants to come along is most welcome.

[Glenn B]

Hope you all have a great night and the weather ghosts are kind.....

[Craigy123]

I'm also I for this one. Its been too long (as usual). going early with a few guys to get a hike done too. See you all there!

[kilmegan]

regretfully going to have to bow out folks.
My wee man is just getting over being sick and if the forecast is anything like what we can expect I don't want him ill again or me suffering a sleepless night :-)
So down to Newcastle to watch the fireworks then home.
Have a safe and fun night everyone

[Kayakgirl]

Hi All,
Unfortunately I'm working late tonight and then I'm on the hills tomorrow with a DofE group.. So won't be able to make it.

[LandyLiam]

Darn, events conspired against me and I can't make it out tonight  smoke me a kipper, i'll try and get out for breakfast 

[Dowser]

Awesome Camp everybody... As always, great meeting the new folk and having a laugh around the fire till the wee small hours. Rain stopped play about 3am but it was probably just as well cause we've no sense to take ourselves off to bed otherwise 

I arrived at the top of the lane about 1pm but the heavens opened and I made an executive decision to stay in the car till the worst of it passed.  My daughter and I sat and played Xee-Osees and Hangman on the steamy windows for the best part of an hour but I'm so glad we did as it meant we were arriving at the campsite with dry gear. 

After a quick pitch of my tarp and sleeping kit, for my daughters first Bivvy, a few of us set off to find the Percy Bysshe caves before the sun set.  It's a really handy hike up, which helps build an appetite, and after a bit of searching we found the entrance.  Well worth a look if you've never been and there was even talk of arranging a camp for the brave were we overnight in the second chamber.

Anyways, enough waffle from me... Here's a few photos from last night:

[fourman]

Great night everyone !,
Good set of photo's ,we where lucky with the weather.
Good to see some new face's even wolfie made an apperance  !
Parking tickets indeed , what next traffic wardens in hiking boots, lol.
My kids realy enjoyed it and now want to go on the xmas camp, c u all then
if not before.

[clairebear]

Great photos was good to put a few faces to the names.  Has a cracking big fry at meelmore lodge after a ride through the mountains.  See you all at the christmas camp.