Them that know me know that to do a wildcamp has been on my list of things
to do for a long long time.
This is just a very brief TR tonight before I fall asleep...
This is me actually managing to get the bag on my back without falling over!
Me n Lexi were very kindly accompanied by Humper Lumper, Frankie and Donna.
On our walk on Friday afternoon up Yewbarrow, we spotted a good place to try out this new venture
near a stream but also in a place where good views could be reached easily.
We decided to try out a spot just below Yewbarrow just near to Dore Head.
Here are the tents, which went up no problem due to the help that Rich and Donna gave me.
I'd got a Banshee and oh what a funny shape it was!
The next bit of this exciting time of trying out new things was to just stand and enjoy the views as the light
faded
and the reality of it being just you, the mountains and the baaing sheep. And on this occasion. The wind.
And some funny shaped rocks...
I lay in my tent and was way too hot in buffalo gear and my minus 10 sleeping bag and began the process
of taking off layers and it wasn't long after 9 30pm that I was soon fast asleep.
The next morning I awoke. ***** I thought. It was light. Well half light. I looked out of the tent door way
and saw this..
Now, I didn't know what time it was and the light was half light and for some reason I was all fingers and thumbs
and I didn't even think of switching on my phone to see what time it was, I just wanted to get out to see
what it all looked like in the morning!
Thinking that that was it, I started to walk and as I walked, I realised that the greyness of the light was
changing to this omg and I realised that what I first saw was towards the west and so it was the moon
and this new view facing east was in fact the sun rising...
I just couldn't believe it!
But, not only that. I had staggered half awake almost to the top of Red Pike.
Me here, alone and with this glory.
Something funny that happened whilst I was taking about 50 photos of the sunrise was in the silence,
this very LOUD BAAA behind me, and I went "OOOHHH!" and turned round and there was this sheep
saying hello!
This is just another one of the shots..
And, this is the very last one. I had decided that I shouldn't be looking at the sun through my camera
lens so I was pointing and clicking without looking, so sorry if any of them seem to be lopsided!
I wandered back to base camp for a bacon buttie and a cuppa. When I switched my mobile on, it said
5.38. So I must have woken some time after 4am!
Thanks Rich and Donna for making this an event in my life time. Your help, especially with the tent
and letting me use your stove too is much appreciated. You have been kindness itself to me and
Lexi. Thank you to you both. I couldn;t have done this without you.
Here is one after brekkie up Red Pike again sitting on the chair...
If it is ok with anyone, I'll include some more tomorrow.
I am SO omg! I want to do it as much as possible in all the places I've ever wanted to.
I'm going to call it the dibble way.
Life is so good to have awoken to see a sunset and to have slept on this very land I love and adore.
Thank you to my life events that have led to me being so so lucky to be able to do this.
It feels so very funny to be in a house now. I wish I was back there now.