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29/5/2014 at 3:15pm
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Actually, I was beginning to think I wasn't going to make this month's camp for various reasons. As well as work, there was a family wedding, and also, Heather and myself camped in Hawes. Anyway, I did make it, so on the 27th I found a lovely spot on Colborne just South of Gowburn Tunnel. I was protected by a peat wall on one side which caused the North Easterly wind to blow right over the top of me.
After cooking my dinner, I thought I would give my new Soldier Water Filter a go and was a bit nonplussed when the water came out brown. Yes, it was peat water and therefore very brown.....I just thought it should have been clear? Perhaps someone could comment on this? I would appreciate any help.
My second new piece of equipment was a new sim, which I had bought from Aldi. One word...BRILLIANT!! I went back to buy another, but they had already run out 
I thought it would be fun to find another water source which I had spotted on the map, so I took a compass bearing and set off to find it, only to see that in the distance there was a hunting lodge with smoke coming out of the chimney. My first reaction was surprise, as I didn't remember seeing this on the map, so a ran back to my basha and just hoped that I hadn't been seen. It was only when I looked at my map that I realised that my hunting lodge was actually an air shaft for the Cowburn Tunnel, and that the smoke was diesel fumes venting from below. I went to have a look at this very fancy chimney and was in awe of this Victorian structure and the gaping hole which must plunge to 250 metres below. It did, however, stink. I went back to my camp and opened some wine. I was treated to the most beautiful sunset and I slept very well that night.
The next day bucketed it down with rain. After breakfast, I struck camp and set off for Brown Knoll. The peat bogs were very wet and I sank more than once up to my knees and found the going a bit tough, but great fun. I said hello to people coming up Jacob's Ladder as I made my way to Barber Booth, where my car was waiting.
The Soldier Water Filter
The 'Hunting Lodge'
The actual shaft
Barber Booth
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