2007 January, Scouse's Cairngorm Danger Death Adventure
(whilst Danny has a Sauna)
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Luckily for Scouse, he got to ship out at the crack of dawn & drive 5 hours between sites to do a days work ... |
Danny's big hard one |
at least Scouse got to enhance his night driving skills in the 4 hrs drive to Aviemore ... |
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At least we got to practise our night hiking, setting off for Coire an t-Sneachda around 01:15 |
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At least we find a top spot to camp at the lip of the
Coire an t-Sneachda |
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Then we get a chance to practise our snow wall building skills, as rather fortunately the wind is gusting at 100mph |
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 Self timer familiarisation |
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At least we get an early night, around 5am |
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At least Scouse got to feel what it would be like camping in Antartica in a pair of wet curtains ... |
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Whilst Danny got to feel what it's like camping in Hawaii ... |
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so after a night listening to the poetry of the gusts of wind as it played with the flysheet (and not from Danny this time), we "woke" to find that at least the weather forecast was sporting ... |
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Fortunately we got to practise our snow wall building again, as the rain had worn away the wall |
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Then we had a sumpuous feast of a muesli bar for breakfast before seizing our opportunity to climb ... |
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just poppin up central gully, "travelling lite" |
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Danny got to practise his ice axe arrest ... |
 whilst Scouse takes a picture ... |
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Then we get to practise our night nav skills as we hunt for the tent in the dark ... |
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Much to our disappointment, after only 1 hour in the blizzard we locate the tent ... |
Danny pops on a bru whilst Scouse rebuilds the wall for fun ... |
Scouse's 1st, inbetween & last course meal of Earl Grey is well received |
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Whilst Danny is tucking into his 7th course, we learn about spindrift ... |
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and find that it's built it's own snowman out of our boots, how amusing :) |
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after checking his watch every 30mins to verify that it's not making that damp, chattering sound, Scouse is happy to see the morning |
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Danny is a little slower to emerge as he is suffering from heat exhaustion & over eating |
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Admiring glances from the rare passer by in the blizzard, wanting to know where our carer was ... |
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Reluctantly we leave our cosy nest & head for the big lights of Aviemore and the trappings of warmth, shelter, food & drink |
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and Scouse got to drive back for 6 hrs |
