Dartmoor Christmas gathering

[andyn]

i'm going to send a PM message to everyone who originally said they were going - unless they have already said they aren't anymore.

 

[arctic hobo]

Argh... not going to be able to make it I'm afraid guys... sorry

 

[jakunen]

Well, aside from the fact that Nick was supposed to be giving me and the family a lift...

I can't make it either now due to trying to get my partner's divorce sorted so we can get married.

Sorry folks.

We WILL be making the next one!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bikething]

Afraid I'll have to miss this one......
I'm off doing a winter bushcraft course with Dave Watson!

Maybe next time folks

Steve

 

[leon-1]

As long as I can get there I have the time, so I wil be there.

 

[pumbaa]

Sorry to say the bacon hunter and i cant make this one , so your bacon should be safe !!
I will be doing my Kickboxing grading for my red belt .
Only a couple more and i can start competing !!
Pumbaa

 

[leon-1]

Having just posted the other day to say that I will be there something has cropped up (computers will be the death of me I am sure) that cannot be avoided (not happy).

I will try and get there ASP, but may not get there now untill Saturday.

 

[jdlenton]

I can't make it either got to get the turkey for christmas dinner sorted and lots of other local food goodies hope you all have a good one

James

 

[JonnyP]

Well after all the initial interest, three of us (yes three of us) managed to get to the campsite, but were we detered from having fun........Oh no, we had a great time, the weather was superb with clear skys (no rain). It was cold at night, going down to minus 3, but we were kept warm with the home made mulled wine in us. We had some good walks including a night ramble through the woods and a trip to the top of a tor, and some good chatter by the fire. It was good to meet you Andy and Paul and thanks for a great weekend.............Jon

Getting the fire going with the frying pan tecnique.

Getting the fire wood in.

Mulled wine by open fire, Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Keeping warm by the fire.

The moon was bright.

Freezing fog in the morning.

 

[Phil562]

Glad you had a good time, AndyN is a top bloke.

Nice chair by the way

 

[The Joker]

Spoke to Andy earlier, glad you had fun despite the poor turn out. I'll make up for it guys I'll throw one down my way.

 

[andyn]

Good to know you got home saftely Jon, was great to meet you, pictures looks excellent, the moon shot came out really well. If you drop me a PM with your address i'll send you a cd with all my shots on of the weekend.

As to the rest of you drop outs....neer neer neer...coz while you were all sat inside doing nothing we were having a great time.

As Jon said..we popped up to Haytor rocks and had a bit of a ramble around, night walk through the woods and general chatter throughout the weekend. Weather was especially kind to us and we were fortunate enough not to get even a spot of rain.

My bro and I both fell asleep around the fire last night and woke up close to 1am then had to stumble off to our cold sleeping bags. God knows why we didnt just stay there all night.

Anyway will host some of my pictures after a nice long bath

 

[Adi]

Andy from the images you look as if you had a good time.

I am amazed after reading through the thread seeing all the interest that only three of you had turned up.

Dartmoor is a stunning location.

 

[andyn]

Yeah it was dissapointing the turn-up, we were hoping to all chip in and get the guy that owns the place a nice bottle of something for christmas, but would have been quite an expensive "chip-in" between just the three of us.

Anyway - here are some of my pics.

The breakfast fry-up

The rouge wood collection agency hard at work

On top of the world...Well 433 metres up, after some verbal debate with the GPS system

Jon demonstrating the sharpening power of the spyderco

The glory of a cold and misty morning. Beautiful

 

[pumbaa]

Glad you had a good one guys .
Would have loved to have been able to make it too .
There is allways next time
Pumbaa

 

[jakunen]

Looks like you had a great time <cue muted muttering>.

Me, the missus and our kid WILL be at the next one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's two Dartmoor meets I've missed now... :sulkoff: :sulkoff: :sulkoff:

 

[leon-1]

Guys my apologies, thing swent totally pearshaped for me at the last minute, I won't go into details, but it was serious enough that I would not even be able to visit family at the time.

The next time we have one I do hope to see you and Jon we will discuss cameras / Huntleys (possibly Sue and Barry) and the like for a while

 

[Lithril]

Sorry guys, I had everything packed in the car ready to go, family issues stopped me coming down Friday night, then on Saturday the lock on the front door decided to self destruct so that needed replacing... which was going well until the door itself started falling apart! Needless to say I was rather miffed, and had to just unpack everything... gutted.

Glad you had a good time, its a fantastic location.

 

[andyn]

Hope you both managed to get things sorted.

Look forward to meeting you all next time.

 

[leon-1]

Hope you both managed to get things sorted.

Look forward to meeting you all next time.

Thanks, I am still waiting to find out a final outcome, but hopefully it is sorted.

Have a good Xmas and hopefully see you next time