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Steve
Guest
Aye, I did, I went for a bimble yesterday, a walky bimble that is, to Linhope Spout... and
missed it!!
Another cold, cold day, valley temp of 5degC but a northerly wind at 25-30kts and it felt
like flensing time for exposed flesh!! Strangely enough there was no-one else in the Ingram
Valley that day.
Plodded up the line of the road to the fort on Knock Hill. Gosh, the slopes up to Brough Law from
this side look mean! Ridge walk to trig point, hang a left and a long ridge walk to Dunmoor Hill.
Ouch, horizontal hailstone, thankfully short-lived. Ait temp 1.6degC, oh that makes me feel so-oo
much better, that extra .6deg, now all I need is someone to stop the wind and I'm puttin' me
shorts on.
Thought I'd play clever, take a bearing to Linhope Spout to confirm line-of-sight. No way! Ah!!
metal Flasks and compii (sic.) don't mix. Adjust position, still there's no way, re-check bearing,
no need to adjust for mag bearing 'cos just looking for general direction. Hmm, defintely "over
there" and not where I would have headed.
Take line of bearing, fix on landscape, put compass away.
Fifty metres, is this right?? Looking down. Surely there's no col giving flow to the north, yet I
can see a definite valley then a col then a valley. Map show no such. Bollox map.
Aim off, I know I want the valley that goes south, so aim off from the south of this col. Its
obvious, the map's wrong. Aim off, you be right blue.
That col is bugging me, stop to check again, everything lines up; Linhope Burn from the West,
Dunmoor Burn from the north... but it can't, there's that col, stopping it. Gah! Continue to aim, at
least I can see a point I recognise and head for.
Perspective and foreshortening, well, now then there's two words. The col didn't exist, its was a
shoulder and I "missed" Linhope Spout, saw it well enough, about half a mile to the north and I'd
had enough uphills, besides it was snowing again.
Hah! Secondary objective; "waterfall", hove up right on top of it. Ah well, nailed at least one.
Short walk impersonating Haggis (traverse steep slope, wishing one leg was longer than the other),
Linhope, hmm, quaint.
Trudge down road to car.
Just to give a general idea of where i was, here a StreetMap page:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=396500&Y=616500&A=Y&Z=3
the walk started at the car park, here:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=400815&Y=616350&A=Y&Z=3
While I'm here, a quick question; I'm using an eTrex Summit (hehe, no, not for navigation ;-) and
its limited to 3000 track points... which means my track-logs are truncated as it overwrites the
early stages of the track. Is there any way around this?
What I want to do is to have a complete log of walk, eos. What handy tricks do other folk use to
save the entire track?
SteveO
NE Climbers & walkers chat forum; http://www.thenmc.org.uk/phpBB2/index.php
NMC website: http://www.thenmc.org.uk
missed it!!
Another cold, cold day, valley temp of 5degC but a northerly wind at 25-30kts and it felt
like flensing time for exposed flesh!! Strangely enough there was no-one else in the Ingram
Valley that day.
Plodded up the line of the road to the fort on Knock Hill. Gosh, the slopes up to Brough Law from
this side look mean! Ridge walk to trig point, hang a left and a long ridge walk to Dunmoor Hill.
Ouch, horizontal hailstone, thankfully short-lived. Ait temp 1.6degC, oh that makes me feel so-oo
much better, that extra .6deg, now all I need is someone to stop the wind and I'm puttin' me
shorts on.
Thought I'd play clever, take a bearing to Linhope Spout to confirm line-of-sight. No way! Ah!!
metal Flasks and compii (sic.) don't mix. Adjust position, still there's no way, re-check bearing,
no need to adjust for mag bearing 'cos just looking for general direction. Hmm, defintely "over
there" and not where I would have headed.
Take line of bearing, fix on landscape, put compass away.
Fifty metres, is this right?? Looking down. Surely there's no col giving flow to the north, yet I
can see a definite valley then a col then a valley. Map show no such. Bollox map.
Aim off, I know I want the valley that goes south, so aim off from the south of this col. Its
obvious, the map's wrong. Aim off, you be right blue.
That col is bugging me, stop to check again, everything lines up; Linhope Burn from the West,
Dunmoor Burn from the north... but it can't, there's that col, stopping it. Gah! Continue to aim, at
least I can see a point I recognise and head for.
Perspective and foreshortening, well, now then there's two words. The col didn't exist, its was a
shoulder and I "missed" Linhope Spout, saw it well enough, about half a mile to the north and I'd
had enough uphills, besides it was snowing again.
Hah! Secondary objective; "waterfall", hove up right on top of it. Ah well, nailed at least one.
Short walk impersonating Haggis (traverse steep slope, wishing one leg was longer than the other),
Linhope, hmm, quaint.
Trudge down road to car.
Just to give a general idea of where i was, here a StreetMap page:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=396500&Y=616500&A=Y&Z=3
the walk started at the car park, here:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=400815&Y=616350&A=Y&Z=3
While I'm here, a quick question; I'm using an eTrex Summit (hehe, no, not for navigation ;-) and
its limited to 3000 track points... which means my track-logs are truncated as it overwrites the
early stages of the track. Is there any way around this?
What I want to do is to have a complete log of walk, eos. What handy tricks do other folk use to
save the entire track?
SteveO
NE Climbers & walkers chat forum; http://www.thenmc.org.uk/phpBB2/index.php
NMC website: http://www.thenmc.org.uk