@Gecko76, nice pics and congratulations on getting a teenager out bikepacking. From the smile on her face, she enjoyed it.

Result! Respect!

@frogatthefarriers, I think we chatted briefly on a lane in the first few hour or 2 of this years WRT? You'd just visited the old house we'd passed. 97 BaMs That's quite something! Plans to make the 100th is a special one? That was you? If only I’d known… As to BaMs, I’d already done 29 (on a Trek ...

Me. I’ve had mine since 2017 and it’s my go-to bike for bikepacking. Bought pre-owned (second hand) from somebody in Cornwall. He’d bought it on a cycle-to-work scheme and must have spent quite a few bob on it, then decided to sell. He’d put a few bits of bling on, - and 11 speed NX gears, fancy red...

dorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 9:46 am July Bivvy

Lemon Chicken Video
https://youtu.be/H7QeCzX41YM

Respect! You’re a man after my own heart. It just goes to show that bikepacking meals don’t have to be “add-water-to-a-packet-of -summat-dehydrated”. And it gives you something to do in the evening before bed-time.

BaM for July already done, so I’ve put this in here. So I turned up at work as usual, to find that my bit of the factory was shut down (maintenance or summat) for two days. The choice was two days of boredom or make-work or two holidays. My choice. I chose the holidays and trundled off home but on t...

July BaM with Reg, in Criccieth, on the Slate tour. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPE5hK0x7wxhC3bf4B7Ab1MqVD1G7nbT_wsbsRSo9npA3BFEHTiGo33wtZBqNRvdoHWXioNI_EdpBemfe7H1ffRN3YTithOI5m7NqCIqA3PkkgH1fUc=w640-h480 7 of 7 for 2024. Now I think about it, it also fits in with my wild-flower linke...

Here are a few more pics… Menai Straits, after Port Dinorwic https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNGpppP8dsXY-37PshGeAfx6nT-uj91se9piqR7teaTIwwRKhE2QVASDl7URUpzWqKzbNo00KXCGhpPXPbxNh0QKBrwCdMED1i0XiWI-e3PmpK1X7UF=w640-h480 Castell Caernarfon… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczN-_hfb2Q...

Woodpecker on the lawn. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNAJModT6l0FVk4t148negX8SJ12n_H7v2yr1AGJsqF_Cwi4QFqlNx2ghyRjntQjBwEdvfL9pLCOmar0-PTbaz_5q3xqiwGlJ-hQd8OiDGcwKZlzElj=w1920-h1080 Usually, we see them on the nut-cage but I haven’t filled it up and probably why this one’s looking for an...

OT, Sorry, but…



It’s a parsnip I left in the veg patch from last year.

Just milk the situation in your BaM report Lu. Or is it just a load of udder bull in the first place? You want bull udder? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczN_33wxHlW_YyVjizREFPc8TrmqeXjp2me8rfV2HPX4gggEZIcEiaBhSI24PZQMfBi38b0K_TpMgm5unABNyCLMlOKdCP4NroqNpxlFlIPhNYZza_ix=w640-h480 :-bd

Dunnit! Almost last gasp June BaM. Set out just before seven and huffed up lots of hills to where I’d thought to progress my “Bivvy in wild flowers” campaign. Didn’t work. :sad: A few years ago there had been a very pretty display of big purple thistles and I’d expected there to be another one. http...

Last minute June BaM in progress. Just finished setting up on second choice of spot and a herd of cows has turned up.



I'll survive, I expect, but will my kit? I've seen what cows can do to a tent.

Oh, and it's chucking it down with rain and the wind's getting up. Ooh err missus!

Been to the PYO. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNrD43F4N4hVSQ6VW6CcpgAx8qzQxfCs-848OF4mjo55j297VVdSv4ZKPihtJ6MjyRsf3S8glkizeMiUSn3FVbyQrVs0m0iwp8K_FvgdjxjwWu6o_P4=w640-h480 These became nine jars of strawberry jam and six one pound bags of sliced-up strawberries 'n' sugar for in the free...

I had a similar thing happen some years ago, but I don’t remember the manufacturer of the pillow. Multiple air leaks over a wide area. At the time I put it down to using Deet. I’ve always been a midge magnet, and not knowing any better, was using Deet spray to keep ‘em off. At bed time, of course, t...

GoneCaving wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:12 pm 5/12 for the year. It'll get a bit more interesting next month.

I Dunno! To me, it seems interesting enough.

Been there, done that. In Spain too - on the Camino. On the third day out I found I couldn’t hold a knife to cut my food up. This was last September/October. It didn’t seem to be getting better a month after my return. so I went to our doctors to get it seen to. Doctor said “I don’t know, I’ll refer...

Ticked off an item from my bucket list - completed the Great Glen canoe trail today. Corpach to Inverness on the Caledonian Canal, and some big lochs, including Loch Ness. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMUC0ZNXDfQ0diRGAMbY8LZ7EIlwZe3_Rh1CU8CfLe8IuZ2TVpr9wTICBgosJOYfBi1K0eVJeV-zyfnk_1MFYd...

As per WRT.

The bivvy...


That's 5/12 for 2024.

WRT - Done. My tenth WRT. Picture heavy - Sorry! :roll: With my son, Mike, we set off on what was to be my shortest WRT ever. Just 15 miles to 1st bivvy, 30 miles to bivvy no.2 and an easy 15 miles back to the Towers. 6200ft of ascents. Ha! the best laid plans of mice and men, eh? In the event we'd ...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 9:02 pm Your lad better Lu?

Thanks for asking. Yes he’s (sort of) better - got home with no more pukes anyway.

But in the few days since I last mowed my lawns, the grass is ankle deep and needs cutting. But before I cut the grass, I need to prep the ground and sow my beetroot. But can’t sow the beetroot because I must wash the bikes. So I can’t wash the bike because the grass needs cutting, I can’t cut the g...

That’s a pretty neat idea. I get irritated by the pole in the middle of the Gatewood. Me not being a weight-weenie, the extra weight might be a worth-while penalty.

Verena wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:11 pm Housemartins are back, and have started settling back into last year's nest under the roof.

Ever since my friend said they look a bit like tiny orca whales, I can't not see that any more...

I always think they look like a budgie in a tuxedo..

BaM April 2024. Mrs Frog is having a rheumatoid arthritis flare-up, so this BaM is of necessity close to home - a couple of hours from home and somewhere I’ve used a couple of times before. Near Ellesmere. That’s a parked-up canal boat in the background. The first time I was there in my first BaM ye...

It's Friday. I'm lying in my hammock on my April BaM., snug and warm, listening to the rain pattering on my tarp. The 100 ml of Lidls finest cognac is just starting to kick in...