That's right, this years WRT GR have left the building. If you don't receive yours sometime today ....

1/ Check your spam folder
2/ Check all your email accounts - it'll go to the account linked to paypal
3/ Think hard as to whether someone else entered you. They did, the they'll have the email.
4/ Still nothing - get in touch.

Looks good! The offshore one seems to be missing for some reason so that's my whole plan wrecked already.

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:51 pm Looks good! The offshore one seems to be missing for some reason so that's my whole plan wrecked already.

Offshore...wrecked

A good set of co ordinates I had a premature route planned going up round Cadair … zero points that way so a quick shufty and a preliminary route is forming

Some great GR's in there Stuart.

Now to start thinking of a route for the LHC gang.

So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm Some great GR's in there Stuart.

Now to start thinking of a route for the LHC gang.

So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

Are there any grown up besides the leaders?

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

How on Earth are you meant to “stealth” camp with that many?

Taylor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:04 am

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

How on Earth are you meant to “stealth” camp with that many?

Foxholes maybe?

Is there a way to input a GR into Bing Maps or other in order to plot a route without having a physical paper map or the OS app?

woodsmith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:20 am Is there a way to input a GR into Bing Maps or other in order to plot a route without having a physical paper map or the OS app?

https://gridreferencefinder.com/ is your friend. Once you've exported as a GPX (waypoints), you can then load that into https://gpx.studio/, Ride with GPS, or some other service and plot a route while seeing the grid refs as markers.

Boab wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:30 am

woodsmith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:20 am Is there a way to input a GR into Bing Maps or other in order to plot a route without having a physical paper map or the OS app?

https://gridreferencefinder.com/ is your friend. Once you've exported as a GPX (waypoints), you can then load that into https://gpx.studio/, Ride with GPS, or some other service and plot a route while seeing the grid refs as markers.

Sounds exactly like what I need. Thanks very much.

Streetmap.Co.UK does easy grid ref look up if you don't subscribe to an app or don't have enought space for paper maps
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
Just type in into Smart search. Eg SN766934

note: zoom out one notch to view in 1:25k scale not 1:5k scale
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=276650 ... earchp=ids

I may follow just for food scraps aka The Seagull

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm Some great GR's in there Stuart.

Now to start thinking of a route for the LHC gang.

So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

Taylor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:04 am

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

How on Earth are you meant to “stealth” camp with that many?

With several helpers to split the group up in to smaller groups scattered around the area

Taylor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:04 am

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:27 pm So far with helpers included we have 13 boys and 3 girls riding in the LHC group.

How on Earth are you meant to “stealth” camp with that many?

curled up like puppies & kittens under one tarp.
John will be warm in the middle as chief cat herder...

think of the smell..

woodsmith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:20 am Is there a way to input a GR into Bing Maps or other in order to plot a route without having a physical paper map or the OS app?

With gridreferencefinder you can enter all the GRs on this page - https://gridreferencefinder.com/batchCo ... onvert.php, one per line. Do the conversion then in step 7 click the "View on OSM map" button and you get a view of them all at once.

whitestone wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:01 pm

woodsmith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:20 am Is there a way to input a GR into Bing Maps or other in order to plot a route without having a physical paper map or the OS app?

With gridreferencefinder you can enter all the GRs on this page - https://gridreferencefinder.com/batchCo ... onvert.php, one per line. Do the conversion then in step 7 click the "View on OSM map" button and you get a view of them all at once.

This worked a treat. Thank you

if you want to preview the potential terrain look up the grid ref on https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3464723
this is SN766936

it's intelligence gathering not cheating, Honest guv!

Caveat: you might be looking in another direction from 50 yards the wrong way

Preliminary 'join the dots' is leading me to Mach on the Sunday evening, just wondering which is the usual boners pub in town?

White Lion at the T junction seems to find favour. Does a very good breakfast too - had one there on the Winter Event. Or the Red Lion over the road. And there's the Black Lion at Derwenlas if you want to collect the set .

RIP wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:32 am White Lion at the T junction seems to find favour. Does a very good breakfast too - had one there on the Winter Event. Or the Red Lion over the road. And there's the Black Lion at Derwenlas if you want to collect the set .

Nice one Reg, Sunday crawl / wobble sorted..

On a similar vein, Saturday's dowsing sticks seem to be centring in on the ley lines around Druid Inn, Goginan, worth a visit?

Yes worth a pop in. Not what it used to be but usually does interesting beer, and food (a little pricey maybe).

You might want to uprate your shelter pegs selection in the light of recent events.

https://news.sky.com/story/north-wales- ... s-12586143

"The powerful gusts carried a[n] ewe out of a shed and picked up her lambs". I kid (*) ewe not, that sounds like a right calambity. Seriously though, the damage doesn't sound much fun for the poor farmers.

(*) hang on I'm getting the animal puns mixed up. I'll get my goat...

Talking of WRT, a little bird (*) tells me that we'll need cold hard cash to pay for Saturday's luncheon treats at BBT. I'm certainly very much looking forward to getting my hands on one of Colette's Baps, especially after she spurned my advances last time, but I'm not sure I've still got any real cash to expedite the transaction after The Man contrived Covid simply to remove cash from the system so that he can track our spending more easily via cards etc. I found some old pre-WW2 coins in my father's wardrobe the other day, I wonder if they'll suffice? If not I think I'll just have to resort to bartering (**) for my veggie burger (***).

(*) not Colette

(**) no not Bartering, unless Dave's willing to act as a go-between

(***) it'll have my name on it. And a tracker device baked into it. So if it's gone again this time before I get to the stand, the perpetrator will have no hiding place. I'm not lunching on chocolate raisins again before I set off.