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Day 7 - Saturday 31st July 2010 - the SCs into Wiltshire, and lots of
driving!
Jimmy advised me to park in a lay-by by the entrance to Ellick House at
ST489580. From here we walked south before bearing half-right at a big junction
of paths. Now we were heading diagonally up the hill, and then along the gentle
broad ridge to the trig point. Liam, as usual, set himself up to play
Nintendo DS at the trig point (the USB charger I bought for the car was inspired
- I need to get another - how did I ever cope without them?). Craig, as usual,
set himself down for a sleep on the summit. Jimmy went for it again on 2m FM and was untroubled in cruising to seven
QSOs. I decided to have a little change and went for 30m CW, resulting in a
relaxed, if unspectacular 11 contacts. More "exciting" was the descent. As usual, as we started to pack away, Liam
commenced his descent. "Don't forget to turn left" I called after him. I was
next to leave the summit, with Jimmy and Craig behind me. But I made it all the
way down to the car with no sign of Liam! We all returned to the big path
junction, and Jimmy and I turned on our handhelds on an agreed working QRG of
145.575MHz FM. I sent Jimmy and Craig back up the summit path, while I went up
the path to the left - where I suspected Liam would be coming down if he had
missed the first left turn. Indeed this was the case, so we were all reunited
after only 2 or 3 minutes, and a big sigh of relief.
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