calling all north westers

[gaz_miggy]

ok you may or may not know that iv been thinking or trying to get a regular meet to gether for awile, and now thanks to rangerman i think we can pull it together, the venue is beacon county park to start with and evry last weekend in the month starting hopefully the weekend of the 26th of august,

[sxmolloy]

ok you may or may not know that iv been thinking or trying to get a regular meet to gether for awile, and now thanks to rangerman i think we can pull it together, the venue is beacon county park to start with and evry last weekend in the month starting hopefully the weekend of the 26th of august,

Is that Beacon Fell Country Park near Garstang / Preston ?

[Bisamratte]

I wish I still lived in Preston!

[gaz_miggy]

near scem of all places

[kaoss]

count me in

[sxmolloy]

As long as the dear wife will drive me there, and pick me up I should be up for that.

[WERDNA]

i was up there a couple of months ago having a wonder,
you can count me in, its just down the road from me,

[hawsome34]

Count me in Gaz, and if you need transport let me know

[gaz_miggy]

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...&multimap.y=55

[Goose]

Well done Gaz
Not sure if I will be able to make this one as yet, I will know nearer the time. I went up there a couple of months ago for a recce, just not had chance to do anything about it since.
It seems a good site with lots of scope for camping but possibly limited for hammocks.

[gaz_miggy]

right i was up at the park yesterday and confermed dates with mark the weekend of the 26-27th of this month, pm me and ill give you my moblie its quite a big site so may need finding, the only stipulation is be sencible with fire and we rope of our area so the public dont just wonder through

[RodStrod]

I'd like to give this a go, went to the moot and had a pretty good time so why not continue!

I'll confirm deffo nearer the time, Gaz you have a pm

thumbs up for organising

[Singeblister]

wont be able to make this one but I hope the next

[IamSam]

Its strange what you stumble on just before bed. I was a volunteer at the beacon before I moved to uni in Manchester (still here 10 years now). Grew up in Upholland/Skem and spent most of my child hood there making fires and shelters and hiding from the rangers . Will try to get down to this meet up should be a great trip down memory lane. Get to see the trees I planted and see how the place has aged.

Sorry for the ramble

[sxmolloy]

Gaz, you have a PM...Cheers....Stu

[andy_scouser]

Id say, provisionally, can myself and a freind come along too. we both live in Ormskirk so theoretically could turn this into a hike as well

[gaz_miggy]

well im hoping to start a good rapore with the park, the rangers there wont us there and i quote we wont the woods to be used, they are getting a charcoal kiln soon as well,

[PJMCBear]

Can't join you this time, but would be interested in coming along in the future.

[andy_scouser]

8ollox, I can't make it either as ive got a double header shooting comp (UKAHFT) that very weekend....

I promise ill be at the next one, you've got my number so your welcome to call any time if you want.

[WERDNA]

My Better Half Might Be Coming To This With Me, Is Anyone Els Bringing There Partners

[Womble_Lancs]

ok you may or may not know that iv been thinking or trying to get a regular meet to gether for awile, and now thanks to rangerman i think we can pull it together, the venue is beacon county park to start with and evry last weekend in the month starting hopefully the weekend of the 26th of august,

Excellent! It'll give me a chance to go and have a blat on my bike too, I love riding up there.

What time are you likely to be starting?

[gaz_miggy]

ok well update, i didnt get a chance to get up the the park to scout out a good site, as goose has sed dont think its very good for hammoks so might be a good chance to practice setting up tarps with out trees, and anyone is welcome, ow yes its £3 a night

[timtom1]

doubt i will be able to make this weekend but at the next one I will bring my Birchbark canoe model it should be finished by next month.

[sxmolloy]

I'm defo up for this, really looking forward to it . How many others are definately going to be there?

[PJMCBear]

How did this go?

[sxmolloy]

Firstly thanks to Gaz for sorting all this out. I had a great time and learnt some new things along the way.

Secondly thanks to Jonothan for the lift, without which I would have been unable to attend.

There was just Gaz, Jonothan and myself at this meet so it was quite cosy and I feel we got to know each rather well considering we had never met before. We all seemed to get along great and the chat (both bushcraft and non bushcraft) was very interesting but most of all was in no way awkward, like it can sometimes be when you meet strangers for the first time.

Gaz had picked an ideal little piece of woodland for our camp so after setting up tents/tarps/hammock we got a good fire going using the firesteel and birchbark followed by twigs then progressing to thicker wood.

More chat follwed by food and drinks and the weekend just better and better the longer we got into it. A bit of knot learning and gear comparison and so on.

Laughter was plenty and what was impressive was although a few people did wander throught "our patch" that Gaz had cordend off no-one seemed to mind we were there (of course we had permission and Gaz went throught the correct proceedure for events like this).

After packing away on Sunday, following the take only photos leave only footprints rule, we decided a quick visit to a near pub for a farewell pint of the good stuff was in order and we went our seperate ways.

In my opinion it was a really good, fun and sucsessful meet, my first in fact and it certainly will not be my last.

Gaz, let me know if you require the DVD's and we can sort something out.

Jonoathan let me know how you get on with your knife and PM me if you need any tips or want to post it to me so I can have another look at it.

All in all a great weekend, once again thanks you two, I feel I have made a couple of good, new pals.

All the best....Stu

PS the knot site I mentioned a few times is : http://www.iland.net/~jbritton/index.html

[andy_scouser]

Damn, i've just checked out the dates for my shooting comps, it looks like I won't be able to make a meet until the end of November as all the comps seem to be 'end of month' dates. If there is any interim meets, please let me know and ill be there.

[sxmolloy]

Forgot I took this. Gaz Miggy limbing a dead, standing tree with a Laplander saw to feed the fire throughout the whole weekend.



ATB Best....Stu

[Soozy]

Hi,
Whereabouts can you camp at Beacon Park, I didn't realise you could????
Are the meets still on or is it invited people only?!?!?!?

[RodStrod]

I just realised that I never left a comment about this....oops

Suffice to say, pretty good weekend out and about in the woods, just what we like. Good company, good laughs and good ideas - learnt some new stuff, met some good folk - is there anything better?

Soozy - Gaz talked to the ranger and managed to arrange it, I don't think you can just walk in and pitch up. We roped off an area of trees - didn't really work, i think people's curiousity got the better of them - ooooooo, I'm not supposed to go down there, i wonder what is there....come on, lets have a look...sheesh! some people.

Stu - still working on my knife....its one of those "when i get time" jobs, i have filed it down and it works a little better....lets call it "work in progress", bring your file next time and we can do some work on it

are we having another one?, i'll happily talk to the rangers if Gaz has gone to Cornwall as he intended. Or is....hmm, was it Rangerman on these boards? if he's still kicking around then maybe we could ask him if its still ok......thoughts, people?

J