The wind from the North tore at the fabric, it’s force pushing the body of the tent down onto me, the sound drowing out every thought, never mind the metal on my iPod. I unzipped the inner door and noticed that the earlier Southerly wind had filled the porch full of snow, my stove, poles and pack were now decorations on a Christmas cake, odd additions to a snow covered Victorian winter village. The pegs holding the porch down were showing more and more bare metal as it danced wildly on the spot, a Riverdancer with Lithium batteries installed. I opened the outer zip a few inches and winced as the rocket propelled snow sprayed my face, blinking through it I opened the door more and looked over to Phil, 20 feet away. My torch beam picked out his face grimacing through a crack in his door as he poked his torch out. The snow was passing horizontaly, his tent was shaking violently, as was mine, I could see his expression as he picked out it’s twisted shape through the blizzard. It was 0300, hours ’til daylight, -8°C in the porch. As long as it didn’t get any worse we could ride it out…we pondered the situation and each other through the darkness and the mayhem, we shouted as one…”Er, are you alright?”.
Nuts. How high were you camping?
See!… that’s what happens when you plan! ;-)
We weren’t that high Martin, 767m. Great fun, a great test of a stack of gear too. I’ll be writing this trip up for days.
Aye Beth, planning leads to the unexpected :o)
Looks great. Shame you didn’t nip outside to get a picture of the tent…! ;O)
Aye :o)
The camera went mental, it as too cold. Most of the photies didn’t come out, but there’s a few saveable so I’ll put a wee story together when I’ve had some more sleep.
There will be much to say about PHD as well.
Ooh, you tease…. good or bad? Good I’d have to hope.
It’s integral to the plot…
*grabs bag of popcorn and waits…*
Send that snow down here, you get an unfair proportion of our paltry annual snowfall up in Scotland!!
And why is your blog clock so far off? It’s 40 minutes fast!
Sounds like a grade A night. Knew you’d have a great one and told Charl how lucky I thought you were the other night. Get that report up – some of us are desperate….and nerdy!
Clock fixed (as much as WordPress allows), story half written, going to bed…
Bless you people.
as always, Monty Python said it best…
… you lucky lucky bastards…
ohhh i cant wait for the full story on this one!!
How did you post at 12:07 !!!
Were you still trying to work the cafine out your system from that massive mug of coffee !
I couldn’t sleep. The room wasn’t moving…