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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #650 on: 26 March, 2012, 11:22:12 am »
I am around on Friday if the baton comes this way: I have a day off.

jogler

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #651 on: 26 March, 2012, 12:01:03 pm »
Mr Smith & I will be heading to & from Ashbourne over the May Bank Holiday, if it's still around your parts (as they say, jogler) then. We'd like to bring it south and east for a bit.

are you audaxing?
300km Skeggy ride out of Alfreton?

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #652 on: 26 March, 2012, 12:18:49 pm »
Mr Smith & I will be heading to & from Ashbourne over the May Bank Holiday, if it's still around your parts (as they say, jogler) then. We'd like to bring it south and east for a bit.

are you audaxing?
300km Skeggy ride out of Alfreton?
Yes & no. Perm-ing Up & Down some of them thar Hills. A wee holiday in the peaks. That we ride to.

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #653 on: 26 March, 2012, 12:51:26 pm »
I am near Loughborough which is about 40 miles East-Angliawards from Cheadle.

It is also halfway towards the Rutland Water camping location...  :thumbsup:

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #654 on: 27 March, 2012, 12:47:43 am »
The baton was forced into my hands under protest! I go into hibernation from October onwards and this year has been a bit grim with illness & depression.

I had a good ride today & am making plans to do a ride to http://www.canalcentral.co.uk/ at Maesbury in Marsh near Oswestry for an overnight camp next Saturday.   Hopefully I'll meet up with Jogler en route and hand the baton on to him.

If anyone's interested it's a nice quiet little site with it's own cafe  for breakfast and a pub / restaurant within walking distance http://www.thenavigation.co.uk/
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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #655 on: 27 March, 2012, 09:10:06 am »
I am currently planning to meet you at the campsite

ETA I have sent you my mobile # via PM

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #656 on: 27 March, 2012, 10:42:20 am »
Jogler, don't forget there should be photos of each handover.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #657 on: 27 March, 2012, 11:51:10 am »
I've not forgotten

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #658 on: 28 March, 2012, 06:43:46 pm »
I'm intending to use a tarp & bivvy bag instead of a tent.

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #659 on: 28 March, 2012, 07:15:18 pm »
Hard Man !   I think I'll be using my Shangri-La 3 with just it's ground sheet.   Have you seen the MLD Trailstar ? Looks interesting but you need 2 trekking poles for the pitch.  http://www.stevenhorner.com/?p=1003

Are you planning on cooking or eating at the pub ?

Anyone else care to join us for an nights camping ?
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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #660 on: 28 March, 2012, 07:36:36 pm »
That MLD Trailstar looks a bit muttsnutts but it is expensive compared to my £30 DD tarp,which I shall use two walking poles with.
Since my last post my g.d. has expressed an interest in coming.I do think however that I might yet be relegated behind a day at Alton Towers with her friends.She is currently  :-\
If she does come I will have to use the Vaude tent.

I am planning on eating at the pub & limiting use of the cooker to boiling water for coffee.

Kim

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #661 on: 28 March, 2012, 07:56:38 pm »
Anyone else care to join us for an nights camping ?

Hmm, that's about 100k from here, and I've just bought a new tent...

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #662 on: 28 March, 2012, 07:58:23 pm »
Anyone else care to join us for an nights camping ?

Hmm, that's about 100k from here, and I've just bought a new tent...

 :D
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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #663 on: 28 March, 2012, 07:58:29 pm »
It's now Alton Towers on Friday & the weekend with the old wrinkly grand dad :thumbsup:

So we will be using this

http://www.outdoorfair.de/epages/61191849.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61191849/Products/Vaude-Mark-II-Light

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #664 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:05:28 pm »
Are we talking the 31st or the 7th?

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #665 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:07:32 pm »
Anyone else care to join us for an nights camping ?

Hmm, that's about 100k from here, and I've just bought a new tent...

You were a bit Wyatt Earp ( quick with the trigger finger) buying that tent.As I typed & tried to post on the thread I got the "someone has replied" message.
I reckon you have an excellent vfm buy :thumbsup:
You could get a train to Stone & g.d. & I could meet you there or elsewhere en route,or not as you wish.

jogler

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #666 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:08:13 pm »
Are we talking the 31st or the 7th?

31st

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #667 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:13:12 pm »
That's probably a goer, then, assuming I can get all the urgent stuff that needs doing done tomorrow and fix the gears on my bike...

jogler

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #668 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:22:43 pm »
Emily will be right chuffed 8)

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #669 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:23:59 pm »
 :thumbsup:

Maybe I'll find the tent peg I left in the ground last year!

Must remember to pack the baton......
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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #670 on: 28 March, 2012, 08:26:16 pm »
I must remember to pack a camera.

jogler slopes off to charge camera battery

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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #671 on: 29 March, 2012, 12:36:55 am »
...I also note that Gobowen has a station with infrequent but reasonably cheap trains to Mordor Central, which would make the emergency backup bike (and indeed getting home in time to go out for a pootle with barakta, should she express an interest in such a thing, to say nothing of the immunity from the baton afforded by rail assistance) an option.

YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #672 on: 29 March, 2012, 09:44:01 am »
It's a nice, quiet little site, from memory there is also some sort of minature railway....
I've got nothing planned for the Easter weekend yet, so using this as a base for some day rides could be a possibility.
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Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #673 on: 29 March, 2012, 10:16:13 pm »
Andrew,have you booked a pitch at Canal Central?
is it necessary?
do you know how much £ the camping fee is?

Re: YACF LEJoG Relay - Currently in Shropshire
« Reply #674 on: 29 March, 2012, 10:58:18 pm »
I've not booked, the last time I was there was April 2011 and there was only 1 other tent on the site http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46689.msg923863#msg923863   They claim space for 10 tents, but I think they could get more in.

I can't remember the cost but certainly less than a tenner. It's a Camping & Caravanning Club Certificated Site, though they didn't ask for my card. ISTR I had trouble finding someone to pay !

If you are concerned I'll call up & book for 4 people / 3 tents tomorrow.

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