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Author Topic: Ron Dough nobilmente e maestoso - your help requested for an excellent cause  (Read 6089 times)
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« Reply #90 on: 08:22:23, 21-05-2007 »

Loving these, Ron, especially the wonderful sunset colours of #83. Keep 'em coming!
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« Reply #91 on: 09:23:11, 21-05-2007 »

Here we are, starting to collect for the first walk; the extreme youthfulness of most of the party is no doubt apparent.

The lad in the white vest looking back at the camera is not yet twenty-one; the man in a grey vest and shades, fourth from the left, is the second oldest, though still a full twelve years my junior. The big blond guy in the red top is Henk (soon to become almost universally affectionately known as "Big Dog"), our walking leader. Behind the group may be seen a flat-roofed shed: this is a shower and toilet block, something of a luxury on treks where normally the dreaded 'long drop loo' - a deepish lime-filled pit with a tubular metal seatless frame over the top enclosed within a narrow tent - is the order of the day. They can be quite stomach-churningly stenchous. Showers, too, are not common, baby wipes being the optimal solution; our party had it really easy in this respect: virtually every packet of wipes ended up being donated to the orphanage.

If you refer to entry 78, then starting from the centre of the picture we'll be setting off to the left and describing a large circle before reaching the picture's location and making our way back down into the camp.
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« Reply #92 on: 19:32:37, 21-05-2007 »

Welcome back Ron and well done and thanks for the ongoing series of pictures. Looking forward to more.
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« Reply #93 on: 20:21:04, 21-05-2007 »

Ron, welcome back. Those photos are truly amazingly brilliant! How do you take pics like that?
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« Reply #94 on: 20:54:58, 21-05-2007 »

Thank you r: it's my pleasure.

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Look, Think: Point, Look, Think: Look, Think, Shoot.  I think that's what I do... Wink


Here's a view back up the valley towards the campsite and the mountains which figured in the sunset shots:

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« Reply #95 on: 08:26:02, 22-05-2007 »

That first walk set off at a cracking pace, by the way: more like a quick jaunt to the shops than a first trek, even though it was to be by far the shortest and easiest. Although I set off in the front group it was quite a fight holding the pace, though nature helped in an unexpected way when our route crossed the river previously seen in the sunset pictures. Since there were no bridges, it was a case of fording, so off came boots and socks, and the wading began....

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« Reply #96 on: 09:01:38, 22-05-2007 »

Great stuff Ron- you must have had to run ahead to take some of these? #80 is a marvellous capturing of the light-
music in it perhaps.
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« Reply #97 on: 09:05:53, 22-05-2007 »

I like number 94. It is such a beautiful morning and colours are captured so well.
I am for nu 94. There is music in it (start the new day on a positive note kind of, or middle movement of Beethoven though he mostly had forest in mind).
May be it is Mozart violin concerto.
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« Reply #98 on: 09:16:33, 22-05-2007 »

Well, folks, there's plenty more to come...

As for running ahead, I wish I could, mf! The twentysomethings could, but Ron's knees preclude it.

Talking of knees, someone sneaked one of my cameras as I put my socks back on after the river (notice two pairs for walking boots): not in the Ollie class, I fear....
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« Reply #99 on: 09:20:30, 22-05-2007 »

Never mind your knees, Ron. What about those EARS?! Are they permanently bent now after all that time under your hat?  Smiley
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« Reply #100 on: 09:41:37, 22-05-2007 »

Oh no GreenMan, the Dough ears are amazingly resilient, and eagerly awaiting delivery of this month's cds (which were never ordered due to the rush of departure.... Wink)
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« Reply #101 on: 13:22:57, 22-05-2007 »

From the river, with both pairs of socks safely replaced and feet rebooted, we started the first of the climbs (which are only to be expected in mountain treks Wink): this was a gentle one, however...

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« Reply #102 on: 21:12:46, 22-05-2007 »

Ron's off on his travels at some unearthly hour tomorrow morning en route for work in Bristol, and since he's going that far anyway, also fitting in visits to friends in Pensford (Avon), Egham, and Montgomery. Probably away until Monday.

We'll leave the walk at the first stopping place: Stadsaal, where the already amazing rock formations have been further eroded into caves and tunnels.



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« Reply #103 on: 21:33:32, 22-05-2007 »

Natural structures are even more impressive than human made.
I read that prehistoric people lived in caves. May be they lived in this caves., though I doubt it. They look like eroded rock formations like you say.
Have a good trip tomorrow and I hope you will continue to post the pictures you took.
Thank you for posting. I have a good time looking at them.
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« Reply #104 on: 21:34:14, 29-05-2007 »

And he were are back for a couple of days before zooming off again to help someone else out....

t-p,

I think you're almost certainly right about people living in those caves: only about half an hour's walk away, in the next big rock outcrop, there's proof...

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