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Wednesday 8th August 2012
It was 1.30am when we decided to leave the youth hostel and walk to the top of Dufton Pike. Each of us carried a torch, but the sky was clear and the half moon was bright. The brilliant light cast shadows upon the world and gave us plenty of light to see by. The track was by no means easy to walk up in the dark. I manage to trip over rocks during the day. I decided that I like walking in the dark. During the day you can see how far you still have to go. While walking in the dark you can only see vague outlines of hills and you can trick your mind into thinking you're nearly there.
It didn't take us as long as we thought to reach the top. It only took us about an hour. The sky was not yet light and so we set about making ourselves a little camp for the rest of the night. It grew quite cold stood on the top of the Pike, so the bivvy bags came out and we got to look all amazing wrapped up in the orange plastic.
For an hour or so we waited for it to start getting light. The whole purpose of going up the hill was to watch the sunrise. What we hadn't realised when we set out was that the annual Perseid meteor shower was this week. It is going to be the best on Saturday and Sunday, but we were able to see around 50 meteorites.
By 3.30am however, it had started to cloud over. The ever growing light and the patterns of clouds made for some interesting and beautiful effects... Unfortunately the cloud meant we couldn't actually see the sunrise in the NE. Looking to the west we got to enjoy the pastel colours of dawn over the village of Dufton and the surrounding hills.
Next time we'd better check the weather...
For the past two weeks I and four friends have been holed up in the small village of Dufton, Cumbria, England. As part of our geology degree we were expected to map the bedrock and drift geology of an area pretty much anywhere of interest in the country. A lot of my family come from the north of England, so I knew what I was in for when I suggested that we go to Dufton. Some of my friends haven't really ventured too far north, especially my friend from Somerset. It was a long days travelling for her.
The village of Dufton is a nice, quiet village on the Pennine Way. It used to have a small shop, but that recently closed. There is a steady trickle of walkers coming through the village. Staying in the youth hostel, we met all sorts of people, especially the walkers. It's quite amusing however, when you stick a bunch of adults in a place where they have no real responsibilities and where alcohol can be purchased and consumed. There we were sat on the floor of our dorm, trawling over maps and scribbling in notebooks, complaining about the noise the adults were making downstairs. God, we sounded old.
We headed out in all weathers: rain, sun, wind, fog and we sat through a hail storm in an abandoned lime kiln halfway up the valley we were working in. The first part of the valley was pretty all right to map. There was a lot of outcrops, even though a lot of them required climbing to. But slightly further up the valley was a placed we called "Moon Valley". Later we called it Mordor. It looked like something Frodo and Sam could have walked through. All the mine waste gave for a very volcanic looking landscape.
"One does not simply map in Mordor..."
Good old Boromir... He got that one right.
But while we were there to work, it was a lot of fun.
And it's not over yet. I have to write the report of my field trip by the end of September. In two weeks I am going to Austria. That should be quite enjoyable. I think we are going to see the glaciers. A few good photo opportunities there... And in September I am going away with university to Spain - Al Maria, I think. I never did well in heat and this is the only desert in Europe, I have been told. Still, it should be fun...
Okay, so that's a pretty mega journal entry. I'll leave it at that for now.
Toodles
It was 1.30am when we decided to leave the youth hostel and walk to the top of Dufton Pike. Each of us carried a torch, but the sky was clear and the half moon was bright. The brilliant light cast shadows upon the world and gave us plenty of light to see by. The track was by no means easy to walk up in the dark. I manage to trip over rocks during the day. I decided that I like walking in the dark. During the day you can see how far you still have to go. While walking in the dark you can only see vague outlines of hills and you can trick your mind into thinking you're nearly there.
It didn't take us as long as we thought to reach the top. It only took us about an hour. The sky was not yet light and so we set about making ourselves a little camp for the rest of the night. It grew quite cold stood on the top of the Pike, so the bivvy bags came out and we got to look all amazing wrapped up in the orange plastic.
For an hour or so we waited for it to start getting light. The whole purpose of going up the hill was to watch the sunrise. What we hadn't realised when we set out was that the annual Perseid meteor shower was this week. It is going to be the best on Saturday and Sunday, but we were able to see around 50 meteorites.
By 3.30am however, it had started to cloud over. The ever growing light and the patterns of clouds made for some interesting and beautiful effects... Unfortunately the cloud meant we couldn't actually see the sunrise in the NE. Looking to the west we got to enjoy the pastel colours of dawn over the village of Dufton and the surrounding hills.
Next time we'd better check the weather...
For the past two weeks I and four friends have been holed up in the small village of Dufton, Cumbria, England. As part of our geology degree we were expected to map the bedrock and drift geology of an area pretty much anywhere of interest in the country. A lot of my family come from the north of England, so I knew what I was in for when I suggested that we go to Dufton. Some of my friends haven't really ventured too far north, especially my friend from Somerset. It was a long days travelling for her.
The village of Dufton is a nice, quiet village on the Pennine Way. It used to have a small shop, but that recently closed. There is a steady trickle of walkers coming through the village. Staying in the youth hostel, we met all sorts of people, especially the walkers. It's quite amusing however, when you stick a bunch of adults in a place where they have no real responsibilities and where alcohol can be purchased and consumed. There we were sat on the floor of our dorm, trawling over maps and scribbling in notebooks, complaining about the noise the adults were making downstairs. God, we sounded old.
We headed out in all weathers: rain, sun, wind, fog and we sat through a hail storm in an abandoned lime kiln halfway up the valley we were working in. The first part of the valley was pretty all right to map. There was a lot of outcrops, even though a lot of them required climbing to. But slightly further up the valley was a placed we called "Moon Valley". Later we called it Mordor. It looked like something Frodo and Sam could have walked through. All the mine waste gave for a very volcanic looking landscape.
"One does not simply map in Mordor..."
Good old Boromir... He got that one right.
But while we were there to work, it was a lot of fun.
And it's not over yet. I have to write the report of my field trip by the end of September. In two weeks I am going to Austria. That should be quite enjoyable. I think we are going to see the glaciers. A few good photo opportunities there... And in September I am going away with university to Spain - Al Maria, I think. I never did well in heat and this is the only desert in Europe, I have been told. Still, it should be fun...
Okay, so that's a pretty mega journal entry. I'll leave it at that for now.
Toodles
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Hey there,
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Hope you will check it out C:
:damphyr: toodles
thank you!
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it's the first one i've sold on deviantart and i'm quite excited :happybounce:
remember, remember...
remember remember the fifth of november
gunpowder, treason and plot.
i see no reason why gunpowder, treason
should ever be forgot...
did you guys go out for bonfire night? i went down to abbey park in leicester with some friends to watch the fireworks C:
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it was pretty good. especially the bit done to a medley of star wars music.
:damphyr: toodles
Once Upon A Time In The West...
...well more precisely the spaghetti west.
You may know by now that I study geology at the University of Leicester, UK. We get to go on field trips all over the world. This summer we went to southern Spain, to the Desierto de Tabernas. Generally, I try and avoid desert areas, especially in summer as I do not do all that well in the heat. The temperatures at midday usually soared to around and over 35*C, and on a night it was a cool 20*C. While I worried about how I would cope with the heat, being a northern person who finds 20*C positively tropical, I found that I adjusted pretty quickly to the heat, although it was still unpleasant sometime
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