Couple of neat pictures

Been a nice walk today, about 8 miles, here's a few pictures:

1) Where the dambusters practiced:



2) Now who'd like one of THESE:


3) This is what I went to see, it's called Alport Castles:

hi Nigel,
Thanks for the Nice pic's, especially Lady Bower dam area.
One of my old trekking locations.
Eric

Amazing pics Nigel. I find the dambusters one the most interesting.

Thanks for sharing,
tvtech

tvtech said:

Amazing pics Nigel. I find the dambusters one the most interesting.

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There's actually two dams with the towers, Howden and Derwent, the picture above was the top one, Howden - there's also a third lower one, Lady Bower - with no towers, but a giant 'plug hole' in the middle, my dad actually worked on it's construction .

Picture below of the Derwent - bit more water in this one:



And here's the elevation plot of my walk:



Incidentally, the elevation track and pictures are from my Garmin GPSMAP 62sc, so the pictures are all geo-tagged. Notice feet and miles, none of this EU metric crap!.

Steep climb..and then huge brakes to not fall downhill face first. Crikey you are fit.

I envy your energy. And balance

And I have to do this......anyone that does not know about dambusters.....read this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

Amazing stuff.

Thanks Nigel,
tvtech

tvtech said:

Steep climb..and then huge brakes to not fall downhill face first. Crikey you are fit.

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Nooooo!!!!! - not me

I struggled with the uphill part, and was really tired by the end of the walk - my feet were killing me

Although looking at the plot I see I climbed about 900 feet.

The downhill part of that graph is where the Softrak in the picture went down

I first saw it in the distance at about the highest point, but only caught it up at the bottom (where it had stopped). It's like a little pickup truck, and they had picked up a big metal box, covered in camouflage netting (presumably some sort of hide?) - I helped them slide it on to a trailer for taking away. Interestingly the team doing this (and who lifted in on the Softrak in the first place), were one man and three women

ericgibbs said:

hi Nigel,
Thanks for the Nice pic's, especially Lady Bower dam area.
One of my old trekking locations.
Eric

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If you're up this way, feel free to come for a walk.

Tired tonight....too many beers and a celebration yesterday...

Stay well Guys.

All the best,
tvtech