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    BGs on 3rd/4th June

    June 3rd/4th, 6:45pm start, clockwise, 23:30 schedule
    Support mostly sorted
    but still short of a navigator for Leg 2 (in the dark)

    (actually, Leg3 nav wouldn't go amiss either )

    PM me your email address if interested...

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    DTS
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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Have you thought about setting off later, I imagine L1 is easier to nav in the dark than L2, so you might get more offers if you start at 11pm?

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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    I think it is more a date issue than anything - both Duddon and Ennerdale are on the 4th June. DTS is a top bloke - I have run over this leg at night with him in blizzards and would have jumped at navigating it for him if it didn't clash.

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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Happy to help with leg 5 if you need it DTS!?

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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    andyb - believe you me, I've thought about every conceivable start time but 6:45pm is now set in stone.

    I'm co-contending with another guy (maybe two!) and we have most of our support covered - just a couple of minor gaps on the un-sexy night/early morning legs...

    Jim - don't remind me! [shudders] although tbf I don't think it was a full-on blizzard, and due to my wussiness we only made it as far as Helvellyn - I'm hoping any conditions in the first week of June will be slightly easier...
    Leg 5 should be well populated, but you'd be more than welcome
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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Quote Originally Posted by andyblackett View Post
    Have you thought about setting off later, I imagine L1 is easier to nav in the dark than L2, so you might get more offers if you start at 11pm?
    Leg 2 is a pussy cat, it's just a ridge with a few bumps on a path

    If I'm free Daz I'll do it but lots on and was hoping to be in Scotland for some long stuff that week end

    which way were you going to go up Fairfield?

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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Ian - I've PM'd you...

    re Fairfield - I'll be recceing it soon, probably trying the Cofa Pike route as I've never done that before, and will decide after that...
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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    I now have a volunteer for Leg 2 nav - a "top man" by all accounts :thumbup:

    final piece of the jigsaw would now be a Leg 3 navigator
    it's an early hours start, but road support has promised an abundance of bacon butties...
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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Quote Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak View Post
    Leg 2 is a pussy cat, it's just a ridge with a few bumps on a path
    Mind you, a lot of teams seem to find quite a few more bumps than they expected!

    DTS - the only tricky nav part of Leg 3 is from High Raise to Rossett Pike, once you are on the ramps going up Bowfell you are on the main walkers' paths for the most part so nav isn't a problem.
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    Re: Leg 2 Night Navigator Need

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
    DTS - the only tricky nav part of Leg 3 is from High Raise to Rossett Pike, once you are on the ramps going up Bowfell you are on the main walkers' paths for the most part so nav isn't a problem.
    the first time I went on a Leg 3 recce, the cloud was right down, and better navigators than I spent about 20mins trying to find Calf Crag in the clag
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