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In March 2007, in memory of my father, Jeff Sloman, I walked alone from Land's End and four months later arrived at John O'Groats: A LEJOG of 1,687 miles. I walked for Sue Ryder Care, who had looked after my Dad so magnificently. Here, you can find out how it all went and what I am getting up to these days. Please feel free to join in with comments.
It s not a brilliant pitch, and it took me about fifteen minutes to get her this bad. I was trying for a high pitch assuming normal poor (not horrid) weather, so Trinnie is staked close to the ground. It seems pitched like this the doorway tunnel stands up proud from the flank, so I think it will catch the wind and we ll be buffeted. However the doorway is quite tall, if a touch narrow.
Again, I ve set her quite close to the ground assuming poor weather. This time she looks quite a bit better, with fewer wrinkles, and from emptying her from my pack it took nine minutes to get her to this state, which is better, but certainly not quick enough if it s peeing down with rain.
At this height the doorway tunnel is virtually flush with the her flanks corporate travel services which should make for a quieter night. corporate travel services Even thought the doorway is very slightly lower it s more useable because of the increased width. Trinnie looks to be considerably more aerodynamic at this height with quite shallow angles, whilst still giving decent headroom inside.
I was interested to see how much load the central pole was taking, and trying to lift it when pitched showed that it was quite considerable. This led me to wonder corporate travel services if the pole will sink into peaty soils in stormy weather and so I ve come up with a solution to that; I ve punched a hole in the centre of an aluminium Jameson whiskey carton top so that the pole basket sits snugly on top. This lid is 92mm in diameter and has quite a deep rim so is very stiff. It has a surface area of 6645 sq.mm. My Leki pole basket has a diameter of 50mm, so an area of 1964 sq.mm. So using the whisky corporate travel services top gives well over three times the surface area, so hopefully more chance of resisting being shoved down into a peaty soil. It weighs 19 grams.
Robin has come up with another neat idea tying a nylon loop of cord to the apex grosgrain loop to help packing corporate travel services in high winds; it will give me something positive to hang onto so Trinnie won t end up in the north sea two weeks before I do:
My next experiment will be to move the door position corporate travel services when Trinnie s pitched with Oook installed corporate travel services which will be pretty useful should the wind direction veer through 180 in the middle of the night. The theory s fine and I need to get Trinnie up in good order in two or three minutes.
I m an old hand: I always got both of those getting in out of my Akto. Whenever I m camping there are warm dry zephyrs (and Zodiacs to die for) or freezing ice covered tents. corporate travel services None of this rain mizzle for me, Sir. Oh No! Delete Reply addon Monday, March 17, 2014 9:49:00 pm
Quite a scientific business, this. Make sure you allow for the phase of the moon. Gravitational waves a concern? But good to see a bit of considered planning going on. Also good that you had all these empty whisky containers lying around. Reply Delete Replies Alan Sloman Monday, March 17, 2014 10:40:00 pm
I watched Andy Walker erect Treeza Trailstar quite a few times last year, and noticed that there was quite an art to it. Because of that I ordered corporate travel services Trinnie with enough time to ensure I wasn t going to end up wrapped up in a mess of ProSilnylon guy ropes in the middle of a Scottish corporate travel services bog. The lunar cycle is important. It accounts for a lot of the madness in women, and Trinnie is a little corporate travel services minx. Will the gravitational corporate travel services waves make my rucsack heavier? Delete Adam Monday, March 17, 2014 10:50:00 pm