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Sunday on Hound Tor
Aug. 3rd, 2014 07:24 pmTo Hound Tor for today's bouldering where the weather was sunny but cold in the wind and where, despite overhearing a mother in the car park confidently telling her child that it was going to rain in half an hour, we managed to escape a drenching.
Having reset the exposure settings on my camera — they'd been cranked way up sometime yesterday — and tweaked some of the autofocus settings, I found I'd been lucky enough to bag a handful of decent photos, managing to capture both the moor and today's constant parade of cumulonimbi in all their glory.
Arriving at the top, we dropped the mats, shoes and other baggage, and stood around taking in the fantastic view of the moor looking east towards Haytor:
( Pre-lunch montage... )
Just before lunch we shifted round the corner to Little Prow where T and I worked up one of the problems while H&N went down to the Hound of the Basketmeals for burgers. After some solid attempts on the problem, during which I knocked off some of my scabs and we paused to watch a group of people scattering ashes just below us, we headed up to Summit Block to wait for the food — delayed by the need to defrost my veggie burger!
( Post-lunch... )
After seeing the crowds around Haytor, we ditched out plans to walk up and hightailed it for Exeter and Go Outdoors where the others were keen to look at tents. No-one bought anything in the end and they dropped me back at my place in time for me to light out for the supermarket while they headed back toward the motorway and the lights of London.
Despite my rather hesitant start and the hand-shredding delights of Dartmoor granite — "sharper than werewolves' teeth" — I had a fantastic weekend.
It was great to see T&N again and nice to meet P's mum for supper yesterday evening — I don't think I'd seen her since I bumped into them in Reading 13-14 years ago! It was also good to get a chance to play with the camera — I think I now know which settings I need to fiddle with to get the light balance right! — and I took enough photos that I managed to get a few I'm genuinely happy with.
Having reset the exposure settings on my camera — they'd been cranked way up sometime yesterday — and tweaked some of the autofocus settings, I found I'd been lucky enough to bag a handful of decent photos, managing to capture both the moor and today's constant parade of cumulonimbi in all their glory.
Arriving at the top, we dropped the mats, shoes and other baggage, and stood around taking in the fantastic view of the moor looking east towards Haytor:
( Pre-lunch montage... )
Just before lunch we shifted round the corner to Little Prow where T and I worked up one of the problems while H&N went down to the Hound of the Basketmeals for burgers. After some solid attempts on the problem, during which I knocked off some of my scabs and we paused to watch a group of people scattering ashes just below us, we headed up to Summit Block to wait for the food — delayed by the need to defrost my veggie burger!
( Post-lunch... )
After seeing the crowds around Haytor, we ditched out plans to walk up and hightailed it for Exeter and Go Outdoors where the others were keen to look at tents. No-one bought anything in the end and they dropped me back at my place in time for me to light out for the supermarket while they headed back toward the motorway and the lights of London.
Despite my rather hesitant start and the hand-shredding delights of Dartmoor granite — "sharper than werewolves' teeth" — I had a fantastic weekend.
It was great to see T&N again and nice to meet P's mum for supper yesterday evening — I don't think I'd seen her since I bumped into them in Reading 13-14 years ago! It was also good to get a chance to play with the camera — I think I now know which settings I need to fiddle with to get the light balance right! — and I took enough photos that I managed to get a few I'm genuinely happy with.
