REALLY crap day

[up-the-dubs]

Beautiful morning, out for a cycle, and it turned nasty. Too cold, wet and windy to get any better .


Back at the car

VERY windy and effin cold!....

[gorvid]

Lovely place by the looks of it - where is it??

[up-the-dubs]

Glenmallure (sp?) in Wicklow about an hour south of Dublin.

[Andy M]

I was expecting to hear tales of broken bones/equipment. Whip a plastic bag on your camera next time and get snapping (frostbite is for puff's )

[up-the-dubs]

Andy M said:

I was expecting to hear tales of broken bones/equipment. Whip a plastic bag on your camera next time and get snapping (frostbite is for puff's )

38mph in horizontal rain, blurred vision from glasses that were too wet and being dunked in a stream. It was only a Canon compact with me, space and value being the determining factor . Touching wood, I've yet to ever break a bone .

[KB_S1]

up-the-dubs said:

Touching wood, I've yet to ever break a bone .

when cycling it is sometimes the speed at which you touch wood that leads to broken bones.
or in my dad's case 'tarmac'.

[Andy M]

up-the-dubs said:

38mph in horizontal rain, blurred vision from glasses that were too wet and being dunked in a stream. It was only a Canon compact with me, space and value being the determining factor . Touching wood, I've yet to ever break a bone .

A few weeks ago - just before the cold snap - I was up Hellvelyn. I had intentions of getting a good few photo's, but when I got up there taking a photo became a chore more than anything else- my trekking partner reckoned it to be minus 15 degrees at the summit. Got home, checked my photo's - crap! All hugely underexposed due to me accidentally flicking the wrong switch

Best just to smile and look forward to the next opportunity

[up-the-dubs]

Andy M said:

Best just to smile and look forward to the next opportunity

Yea, it was lashing rain in all the above photos. It's the first time I remembered to throw the camera in my back pack and was determined to get one or two . Despite the pack having a waterproof cover and the camera in a LowePro case, it was still kinda damp by the end . First time in 2 years anything inside the pack got wet! Going back today/tomorrow as we were only out for an hour today due to utter saturation.

[up-the-dubs]

KB_S1 said:

up-the-dubs said: Touching wood, I've yet to ever break a bone . when cycling it is sometimes the speed at which you touch wood that leads to broken bones. or in my dad's case 'tarmac'.

I cracked my first helmet by saying an intimate "hello" to a rather solid tree . That hurt for a while.