BGR attempt this Saturday 25th

Glad to see the tracker update and he's at the top of Yewbarrow now.....phew! Thought something terrible had happened.

Ya from the previous two rounds using this device it is obvious that Wasdale Head is a phone reception black spot.

Wonder what happened between Dore Head and Red Pike?

Just seen on going thread come on Dave keep going mate:thumbup:

8.24 PM Dave's tracker is definitely not performing that well. Be interesting to hear how he is carrying it. Lets hope it picks up when he gets out of Honister.
9.25 PM Some really sketchy tracking on this one, rare we have seen this. Hold caution about where Dave is, he is probably having a wonderful time on one of the best evenings the Lake District is having this year.

Hi unfortunately I hit a really bad patch at kirk fell. I realised that under the circumstances I had to retire, I'm sure most of you where wondering where I was going.A decision was made that the easiest and safest thing was to drop back to Wasdale and return via styhead pass to seathwaite whilst one of my support headed to honister to inform my crew and send a car to collect me. Two of my support crew then headed up from seathwaite to meet us part way with head torches this became one of the hardest decision I have made.

The tracker is a peice of kit I think everyone should carry because when things went wrong I knew I could be found which filled me with confidence when I needed it.


I would like to thank my support crew and everyone on the forum for helping me have one of the most memerable days and hardest I have had even though I didn't make it to the finish.

Tough luck Dave, difficult decision to make when so near the end. Hope you recover and consider another go :)

Sorry to hear this Wingman. Wishing you a speedy recovery and I'll be cheering on the tracker when you have another go xx. Well done to all your support crew too for keeping you safe. :)

James,

Does the tracker device keep an accurate log of where it's been and what we see on the live update page is a bug in the reporting/transmitting mechanism? I know you've posted about how the device "sleeps" some functionality to save battery life which seems eminently sensible - my phone's battery life goes from two days to around 5hrs when I use a GPS enabled app like Strava - might this have something to do with it? Have you run comparisons between the live data and that pulled directly from the unit?

Might be worth starting a new thread about this rather than clutter up a thread about attempts.

Swimming the tarn at the bottom of Fairfield and Hill reps on Scafell will not have helped.
Onwards and upwards wingman.
Next time Sir, next time.