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Post by mulv on Jan 20, 2023 8:26:53 GMT
Been out to scrape the boss's car, and it hardly needed doing.
Clear blue sky with some clouds in the distance.
Couple of aircraft going past waaaay overhead left clear contrails which caught the sun and glowed red against the blue of the sky. Beautiful.
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Post by Su on Jan 20, 2023 9:08:13 GMT
A positively beautiful winters day here today. Blue skies and 3 degrees
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Post by tom on Jan 20, 2023 9:33:58 GMT
Yes.
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Post by will on Jan 20, 2023 12:53:55 GMT
Very much the same here, but we didn't risk going to Widecombe in case they hadn't gritted the road over Hay Tor and into the village. Them's some very, VERY steep roads and I like to be 100% sure that the brakes are going to work. So we went to Haldon again.
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Post by mulv on Jan 20, 2023 13:29:50 GMT
Haytor Tor is where they sound the trumpet fanfare to start the Ten Tors walk (don't call it a race, they don't like it).
I've been there three times and I never heard a damned thing from Okehampton Camp.
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Post by mulv on Jan 20, 2023 13:34:55 GMT
Correction - Haytor is probably about 20 miles in a straight line from Okehampton Camp. I think it's fixed in my head as it was the furthest point we walked to the year I did the expedition (I was in the support group the other years).
I think High Willhays is where the fanfare sounds from. Still never heard it though. 😁
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Post by anglais on Jan 20, 2023 13:52:04 GMT
We woke to about 3 inches of snow. Its bitterly cold but lovely and bright.
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Post by will on Jan 20, 2023 15:23:39 GMT
Correction - Haytor is probably about 20 miles in a straight line from Okehampton Camp. I think it's fixed in my head as it was the furthest point we walked to the year I did the expedition (I was in the support group the other years). I think High Willhays is where the fanfare sounds from. Still never heard it though. 😁 I was going to say that you'd got that wrong! As you say it's at least 20 miles from Okehampton, and I'm not even sure that the Ten Tors goes over Hay Tor - maybe the 55km route, but I doubt the 35 and 45km ones do. What it is reasonably famous for is that it is often the finishing point of one of the stages of the Tour of Britain, and it really tests the very best cyclists in the world. The road from Bovey Tracy is pretty steep, especially the final kilometre up to the finishing line. I don't think they'll ever come from the opposite direction as the incline from Widecombe up towards Hay Tor is absolutely brutal, but even I could manage the final two kms, so that wouldn't be much of a spectacle! |
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Post by will on Jan 20, 2023 15:30:07 GMT
Correction - Haytor is probably about 20 miles in a straight line from Okehampton Camp. I think it's fixed in my head as it was the furthest point we walked to the year I did the expedition (I was in the support group the other years). I think High Willhays is where the fanfare sounds from. Still never heard it though. 😁 I was going to say that you'd got that wrong! As you say it's at least 20 miles from Okehampton, and I'm not even sure that the Ten Tors goes over Hay Tor - maybe the 55km route, but I doubt the 35 and 45km ones do. What it is reasonably famous for is that it is often the finishing point of one of the stages of the Tour of Britain, and it really tests the very best cyclists in the world. The road from Bovey Tracy is pretty steep, especially the final kilometre up to the finishing line. I don't think they'll ever come from the opposite direction as the incline from Widecombe up towards Hay Tor is absolutely brutal, but even I could manage the final two kms, so that wouldn't be much of a spectacle! I was right ... www.tentors.org.uk/tentors/locations |
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Post by mulv on Jan 20, 2023 18:37:10 GMT
You were correct except for the distances - they're 35, 45 and 55 MILES, not km.
It's a damned long way, especially given that you start walking at seven on Saturday morning and finish by five on Sunday evening, but you're not allowed to pass a checkpoint after (I think) five on Saturday evening. The plan is the get to a checkpoint just before that, then walk to the next checkpoint and camp there. The checkpoints open at seven on Sunday, so you can be first in the queue and yomp off.
As a scout group from the Midlands we were extremely lucky to be involved, as it's normally restricted to the armed forces, police and local groups.
Needless to say, there's no way on earth I'd do* it now.
*Manage it or want to do it - take your pick. 😁
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Post by will on Jan 20, 2023 19:33:08 GMT
You were correct except for the distances - they're 35, 45 and 55 MILES, not km. It's a damned long way, especially given that you start walking at seven on Saturday morning and finish by five on Sunday evening, but you're not allowed to pass a checkpoint after (I think) five on Saturday evening. The plan is the get to a checkpoint just before that, then walk to the next checkpoint and camp there. The checkpoints open at seven on Sunday, so you can be first in the queue and yomp off. As a scout group from the Midlands we were extremely lucky to be involved, as it's normally restricted to the armed forces, police and local groups. Needless to say, there's no way on earth I'd do* it now. *Manage it or want to do it - take your pick. 😁 At Paignton we used to send at least one team out every year, which wasn't bad considering that we were basically a Secondary Modern. The Grammars and the private schools would dominate it down here, except in those areas where there were true comprehensives, such as Exeter and Plymouth |
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