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Going into a mine with a map but no map reading skills and getting lost when you are ment to be leading someone round a mine.
not that i have or have i ...
not that i have or have i ...
footleg said:In my experience, the following make an epic:
- Lack of planning
- Overconfidence
- Inexperience
- Underestimating the capabilities of your group
- Not reading the guide book properly (or mistranslating it)
- Lack of fitness (both physical and mental)
- Ignoring the advice of others
- Not taking the weather forecast seriously
Did I miss anything?
c**tplaces said:Surly all the above makes the trip more interesting. Be boring if navigation was stright forward. Getting lost is fun
Finding explosives and playing with it is funner!
Making someone climb a 80ft ladder at knife point... Thats motivation! :icon_321:
Bouncy rails over a shaft? What you worried about man! it will be fine, if not we just split your kit, as per the tag line
Is it wet?
Naa wear trainers... Once its past your nipples wellys would be full anyway! :blink:
That reminds me of the Meregill rescue, some time in the late '70s. Party heading up the hill met party coming down the hill & said "see you in the pub later". When no-one arrived, they went to look, found the car & called the rescue - there had been no other callout organised. Rescue goes up the hill, Meregill flooded so Aven Entrance was rigged & a party set off down. They eventually made contact with the party, trapped below a very wet pitch.gus horsley said:An epic is when you trudge over the moors to do Pwll Swnd and find that the pitches have been rigged and then discover that there's two guys right at the end of the cave who have been sat there for ages because they're too exhausted to get out under their own steam and never told anyone where they were going.
Langthwaite Pot said:footleg said:In my experience, the following make an epic:
- Lack of planning
- Overconfidence
- Inexperience
- Underestimating the capabilities of your group
- Not reading the guide book properly (or mistranslating it)
- Lack of fitness (both physical and mental)
- Ignoring the advice of others
- Not taking the weather forecast seriously
Did I miss anything?
Sheer bad luck!
cap 'n chris said:er, overestimating the capabilities of your group, surely; as well as any jinxing they happen to suffer from?
badger said:dont know what you mean footleg, although 1600 metres seems to ring a bellfootleg said:
- Not reading the guide book properly (or mistranslating it)