Jake of Winter Hill Adventures

This blog is about my adventures, exploring Interesting places around the United Kingdom and in other countries. I live close to Winter Hill in Lancashire, hence the title and a lot of our adventures are local to here. We don't just go running, we find places that are interesting, such as old mines, brickworks and other local historic sites. I hope you enjoy the blog and please feel free to make comments and I will try my best to reply :-) Dont Just run or Walk explore !

Showing posts with label Night Time Navigation. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Two Lads to Rivington and back again in fog/deep bog

route

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/61372130

around 4 miles in very foggy and failing light ,

the bogs were very deep tonight between the pike and the mast ,

Jake was at one point thigh deep !

very wet underfoot and wind chill left it feeling cold ,

This run was to test equipment and Jake's navigation .

for people who are unaware Jake has a full set of safety kit on him , full cover, phone, online GPS tracker -there are no blackout areas for the GPS on this route , whistle, walkie talkie ,headlamp ,spare torch, Two strobe lights -1 mile visibility , Hi reflective clothing, spare clothing, food .compass/map . we take Jake's safety very seriously, the clothing he uses is waterproof, multi layer high performance, His trainers are Walsh trainers designed for these conditions, Jake is very experienced on these fells but we err on the side of caution and kept to easy navigation routes. please be careful what Jake makes look easy really isn't in the dark and poor conditions. Please be careful !

Towards the two lads

the two lads in mist /fog

Me on two lads

race down towards Pike cottage

Brown Hill

River Douglas

getting foggy now

The pike in the fog/mist

Roly poly down from the pike

getting a drink

between the pike and the mast

The three photos shows you the visibility issue with the boundary wall

3 metres away

1 meter away

the boundary wall - this is very distinctive but unless you were on-top of it almost invisible

Headlamp allows me to see

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Night Time Navigation Two Lads , Crooked Edge Hill ,Russian Food Night

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/59866910

View towards Rivington Pike

The Mast

rear reflective stripes

I had to find my way up to the two lads I was using map and compass
Note from Dad
weather was very gusty although clear driving rain/Hail in the gusts 3c with high wind chill due to wind and rain , Some of the Gusts measured 45mph , wind 15 to 20 mph, Jake was struggling to move against the wind on top of the two lads ,

Two Lads - I was testing extra layers of clothing tonight , the hail was not nice !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail

me navigating from point to point , I found the post ! I was on the way from the two lads to Crooked Edge Hill but the wind was very strong and we were facing the wind and rain which made this difficult,

the weather was getting back now we were lower down I had to find my way without paths from crooked edge hill back to the road !

I am making sure that the red needle (N) is kept between two dots, this is difficult sometimes it take practice , my dad just watches me do this and trusts me to get to the place we need to get to !