As per the title really!
I got to the woods at about 10am on friday and started putting up the 'chute shelter
PING the high line that the chute hangs from parted ... take everything down, find another 100m long rope (the synthetic one the nice - but now rotted one that the replaced the synthetic one for ethical reasons) and start again. Replacement rope too short to go over the normal tree forks so had to be restrung on lower forks...
Pretty well destroyed my duff shoulder throwing the rope over the new forks...
Rope got hung up out of reach..
Broke the "hooky stick" that is in place for pulling down the highline if it get pulled up out of reach...
Remade the "hooky stick" ,retrieved the highline and pitched the chute..
Rope stretched as the wind got up..
Repitched the chute...
And - relax!
A late lunch - pitched personal shelter then made a new Maul to replace the one I broke at home.
A great evening after spending too much time getting the fire to burn - everything soaking.
Early bed.
Woke in the night to high winds and lashing rain - went back to sleep..
Woke 5am to the sound of trees falling...
Got up
Chute blowing around badly - the rope had stretched again and the wind was whipping it around.. tried to tension the rope but the wind would not let me ... sound of falling branches. Little branches falling in various parts of the woods - only twigs falling in my area...
Re-lit the fire, had breakfast... pondered...
Decided to call my wife for a weather forecast - lull then more wind and rain...
Decided to cancel the meet - unable to reach 3 of the 4 who were going to join me - left messages...
Slowly abandoned the woods and the weather steadily improved.
Found that the storm had eroded the new/replacement high line ... need to buy more rope..
Went home - still trying to tell folk that the meet is cancelled!
I got to the woods at about 10am on friday and started putting up the 'chute shelter
PING the high line that the chute hangs from parted ... take everything down, find another 100m long rope (the synthetic one the nice - but now rotted one that the replaced the synthetic one for ethical reasons) and start again. Replacement rope too short to go over the normal tree forks so had to be restrung on lower forks...
Pretty well destroyed my duff shoulder throwing the rope over the new forks...
Rope got hung up out of reach..
Broke the "hooky stick" that is in place for pulling down the highline if it get pulled up out of reach...
Remade the "hooky stick" ,retrieved the highline and pitched the chute..
Rope stretched as the wind got up..
Repitched the chute...
And - relax!
A late lunch - pitched personal shelter then made a new Maul to replace the one I broke at home.
A great evening after spending too much time getting the fire to burn - everything soaking.
Early bed.
Woke in the night to high winds and lashing rain - went back to sleep..
Woke 5am to the sound of trees falling...
Got up
Chute blowing around badly - the rope had stretched again and the wind was whipping it around.. tried to tension the rope but the wind would not let me ... sound of falling branches. Little branches falling in various parts of the woods - only twigs falling in my area...
Re-lit the fire, had breakfast... pondered...
Decided to call my wife for a weather forecast - lull then more wind and rain...
Decided to cancel the meet - unable to reach 3 of the 4 who were going to join me - left messages...
Slowly abandoned the woods and the weather steadily improved.
Found that the storm had eroded the new/replacement high line ... need to buy more rope..
Went home - still trying to tell folk that the meet is cancelled!