DeltaHotel
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What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Fair play, I've walked home from penkridge before but was worse for wear after visiting the swan at whiston
Carole
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Ten Miles? TEN MILES?!!!!
Thats not so much when you think about it.
We bought fitness tracker watches from Amazon ages ago (like Apple but ours were about £30) and it’s surprising how many steps/miles you do just by pottering about.
A normal day doing housework, mooching, popping to the shops is easily 10,000 steps but on holiday exploring or weekends is 2 or 3 times that.
Ten thousand steps is approx 4 miles.
On average, it takes approx 15 or 20 minutes to walk a mile, so if you are out on a walk with friends and chatting or stopping for a sandwich or to admire a view, a 10 mile walk can be done in about 3 or 4 hours.
Gramaisc
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We'll be back to Sundays after this weekend, if you're in the vicinity.
But, two of us have been doing midweek ones lately - not sure about this week, but it won't be Wednesday.
Without the noise of the group, we've had rather more interaction with wild and 'free range' animals.
And, the midweek expeditions mean that we generally encounter few, if any, other people.
10 miles in three hours is good going, if it is off-road, four would be an easier target for the novice walker - going just a little slower than you think you could results in little added time, but a great deal more pleasantness.
And, midweek timing means you get nobody in the way of the pictures.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm either great or terrible on walks, depending on your aim. I'll slow you down for sure, but there will be a lot of pictures taken
Carole
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I presumed that the walks were in Ireland but if they are in Staffs and we’re around then we’re definitely up for it.
Gramaisc
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You would have to walk a good way, and swim a bit, to get to these walks, let me know if you're coming over....
Carole
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I'm trying to do the maths of 20 mins per mile to get to you before the actual walk starts.
Then the swim and how long to dry my bikini.
Hmmm, not sure.
But we are due to visit some relatives at some point so when we come over in Kevin (motorhom)
then we shall let you know
Gramaisc
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I will be here most of the time - let me know, if you head this way.
Mudgie
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Yes Carole, but I'd rather get out in the fresh air and along a towpath towards a few nice pubs, then get a train or bus back to Stafford.
Carole
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Yes I agree, it’s good to get out an about so I wasn’t suggesting it was one or the other.
I was just saying that a person probably does more mileage than they realise by not doing much at all.
(Unless they just sit watching tv all day!)
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
On holiday I regularly hit 40k steps, quite surprising tbh!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Yesterday we went back to talacre, bit windy but everyone seemed to enjoy it. 2 hours parking for 20p is a bargain for a UK beach, and we realised if you both install the parking app you can do a second lot for 20p again rather than £2 which was nice.
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Gramaisc
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I currently have two weekends each week. Two of us do midweek expeditions, able to pick the better weather.
There were multiple targets yesterday, all were achieved.
One was to measure the depth in the centre of a 'secret lake', often alleged to be bottomless.
The idea was to suspend a pulley in the centre of a rope long enough to span the lake, about 30 metres diameter, then lower a sounding weight from that, by means of another rope, and then to measure the distance between the surface and the bottom by measuring the amount of rope deployed to perform that movement.
To be honest, I expected this to be a development test, requiring some modifications and a subsequent return visit in the future, to actually complete the task - but, it actually worked well and we determined the depth, to a very soft bottom, to be 2.79 metres. Hardly bottomless, but I suspect you would sink in a fair way into the sludge at the bottom.
The weather was much better than it looks above, the cloud base was only about fifty feet below the top of the ridge, where the lake is.
Various other locations were visited, including what I call the Concrete Submarine, the remains of an old water supply facility.
We considered the possibilities of using it as a location for a low-budget remake of Titanic.
There were multiple targets yesterday, all were achieved.
One was to measure the depth in the centre of a 'secret lake', often alleged to be bottomless.
The idea was to suspend a pulley in the centre of a rope long enough to span the lake, about 30 metres diameter, then lower a sounding weight from that, by means of another rope, and then to measure the distance between the surface and the bottom by measuring the amount of rope deployed to perform that movement.
To be honest, I expected this to be a development test, requiring some modifications and a subsequent return visit in the future, to actually complete the task - but, it actually worked well and we determined the depth, to a very soft bottom, to be 2.79 metres. Hardly bottomless, but I suspect you would sink in a fair way into the sludge at the bottom.
The weather was much better than it looks above, the cloud base was only about fifty feet below the top of the ridge, where the lake is.
Various other locations were visited, including what I call the Concrete Submarine, the remains of an old water supply facility.
We considered the possibilities of using it as a location for a low-budget remake of Titanic.
DeltaHotel
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Gramaisc
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Due to having access to somebody who currently has the freedom to do midweek expeditions, we decided to reconnoitre a possible route for the Sunday people.
We are both nearly dead - and lucky to survive.
It is definitely not on.
Up the ridge on the far side, 1,000ft+ above the level of the lake, with almost vertical drops in places.
The descent on this side of the lake involves fairly serious risk of injury, although we both got away with minor damage.
From there, we went into the next valley, to inspect the rather more accessible waterfall there.
We then accessed a 25m tower in the middle of nowhere, where construction ceased 230 years ago, but you can still just arrive and climb the 92 steps to the top.
An excellent day out.
We are both nearly dead - and lucky to survive.
It is definitely not on.
Up the ridge on the far side, 1,000ft+ above the level of the lake, with almost vertical drops in places.
The descent on this side of the lake involves fairly serious risk of injury, although we both got away with minor damage.
From there, we went into the next valley, to inspect the rather more accessible waterfall there.
We then accessed a 25m tower in the middle of nowhere, where construction ceased 230 years ago, but you can still just arrive and climb the 92 steps to the top.
An excellent day out.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
That looks like somewhere I'd like to go!
Gramaisc
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During the four hour journey round the ramparts of the lake, we encountered one person.
There were around 15 at the rather more accessible waterfall.
And nobody at the tower.