2013-05-12 51 -0

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Location

A green space near the River Lee navigation and cycleway in Enfield.

On Google Street View [1], looks like this is a public park called Ramney Marsh, but I can't find any reference to rights of way, etc. in either Ordnance Survey or OpenStreetMap. Oh well, I'll just go for it! I should be able to reach S Ordnance Road, follow the footpath by the channel for 200m, then enter the green space heading WNW then N. Hopefully I'll be able to see the footbridge through the trees, bearing 085, and the junction of paths, bearing 180.

It's also within a few hundred metres (as the crow flies...) of the neighbouring graticule's hashpoint 2013-05-12 51 0. Of course, I'm not a crow, and there are the small problems of a river, a side-channel, several hedges and the M25 motorway in between... As Huinesoron said, "Gotta love that Prime Meridian!"

Participants

• jondclarke
• PainterJaguar
• MrsPaintedJaguar

Plans

jondclarke intends to reach the hashpoint by Sunday 11am. If I head out at 9am via Kings Road and using roads through Walthamstow [2], head N to the nearest bridge to achieve the double at noon, [3], then return from the double using the Lee Navigation cycleway and South of the River Thames [4], I can claim Tron and hopefully be back when my family arrive. That was surprisingly fiddly to plan!

However, it's currently p*ssing down, and tomorrow's plan involves lots of off-road cycling, which will now require lots of mud-based cycling and trudging. Hmm... When will I have another chance?!

OK, organisation, take: cycle route out, map & bearings for 1st hashpoint, route between hashpoints, map & bearings for 2nd hashpoint, cycle route back, hand compass (plus 2nd compass built into bike), waterproof map case, phone for photos, bike computer, food & water, waterproof boots (!), coat, toolkit, remember to record evidence!

Biggest threat to success? Hmm, how far should I take this... Rain could make my print-outs dissolve, so email myself the street names & bearings for the hashpoints. The landowner at the 2nd hashpoint could conceivably be raising raptors and/or guard the field with raptors, but it looks purely arable near a well-used path, so I'll take the risk. I could get fed up cycling, lost, along a muddy path for five hours, but surely that's the point?!

PaintedJaguar intends to catch the 10:51 train from Cambridge to Waltham Cross, and then walk to the hashpoint, arriving at around 12:30 (just missing Jondclarke, but maybe finding some kind of marker that he might leave behind from the earlier expedition?). MrsPaintedJaguar's desire to explore the Lee Valley area, rather than the M25, means that the double hash with the neighbouring graticule probably won't be possible.

Expedition

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