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11th November 2003
Mt. Biking: caer caradoc Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Cold - Fogy -Wet - Dark Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Yet another mini adventure around the Shropshire hills at night. Decided
for a change that we would go around the back of caer caradoc to the Lawley
and back to Stretton.
When we got to the back of the Lawley the mist had descended and with no
stars or moon visible it was going to be fun staying on the path. About a
2miles off the road we heard cries of Help! And after stopping discovered
an old man totally lost in a bog with no torch of compass.
After guiding him to the safety of the path he told us he had been out
walking on the hills and when the mist had fallen he had got disoriented
and a had been stumbling around in the dark for a few hours. Mark lent him
his mobile and he called his wife, who had already alerted the police.
We decided to split in to 2 groups of 2, with me and Geoff walking the Guy
back to Church Stretton, which we duly did. Then after feeling that we had
not really had a bike ride chose to do a slightly short route around 3
fingers rock at Hope Boulder, which was a new route only tried once this
summer. And guess what we got completely lost almost biked off a rock face
and after an hour of stumbling around in the bracken, we heard the road
noise and headed for that.
Finally getting back to Stretton to find that the others had completed
their trip out and had gone home. Well at least we did our good turn for
the day, therefore a 5 star.
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