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| + | Right up to the point we got onto the Forestry Commission roads, everything was going fine (apart from missing a couple of turns because the road Betty (the satnav) was suggesting looked like a farm track. | ||
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| + | I'd never driven on a public road where a gate was across it before. I'm glad I had a passenger to deal with the gates is all I can say! | ||
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| + | Driving on the Forestry Commission roads was an experience too. I wasn't too happy crawling at five-ten miles per hour. How rally drivers do 60+ on the roads and round the bends I'll never know (especially when it's raining or snowing!) | ||
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| + | We got to within 5km of the point, but weren't happy about leaving the car and hoofing it to the target point. | ||
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| + | When I get some time, I'll try uploading some of the photo's we took of the general area. | ||
== Tracklog == | == Tracklog == | ||
Revision as of 21:05, 19 August 2010
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Location
Very near Kielder reservoir, but were unable to get to the sweet spot.
Participants
[User:Nstoker|N Stoker] was the driver (blaming myself again I notice!) J Stoker was shotgun.
Plans
We had a quick look on google maps, and thought "this one'll be easy". So packed some grub, the camera's and set off. No doubt the experienced geohasher's will be wetting themselves laughing at that. And they'd be right to.
Expedition
Right up to the point we got onto the Forestry Commission roads, everything was going fine (apart from missing a couple of turns because the road Betty (the satnav) was suggesting looked like a farm track.
I'd never driven on a public road where a gate was across it before. I'm glad I had a passenger to deal with the gates is all I can say!
Driving on the Forestry Commission roads was an experience too. I wasn't too happy crawling at five-ten miles per hour. How rally drivers do 60+ on the roads and round the bends I'll never know (especially when it's raining or snowing!)
We got to within 5km of the point, but weren't happy about leaving the car and hoofing it to the target point.
When I get some time, I'll try uploading some of the photo's we took of the general area.
Tracklog
Next time i'll have to set my satnav to keep the log (it might make it easier)
Photos
I have taken some photo's of the general area (I'd not been to Kielder before, and it's an attractive area) and will upload them later (James also got some pics, I'll see if he's happy for me to upload some of them too).
Achievements
Fail. Is there an achievement for failing? I'm fairly certain I've messed up the editing below here.
