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Chase Day 26 5 June Reports & Pictures


Tom Lynch

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Posted
  • Location: Cumbria UK
  • Weather Preferences: Cloud 9
  • Location: Cumbria UK

What a smashing day. If there are no storms, do something truly awesome , go to the top of a 14,260 high mountain in Colorado.

Started the ascent at Idaho Springs 6,000ft app drove the 14 miles up to the car par near the summit and some of the team completed the climb to the absolute summit , which is 14270. The last stretch was flipping hard and the altitude sickness kicked in.

We rounded the day off with a lovely meal in Idaho Springs and spent the night in Denver ready for action tomorrow.

Tom

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Outdoors
  • Location: West Sussex

Cheers Tom - did you catch my offer for a free exclusive mouse mat (yeah really, it's a limited edition too) for the best scenic picture, or most imaginative use of a chicken?

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  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL
  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL

Well done guys, good timing, as the road has only been open for a couple of weeks, as borne out by the snow alongside the road.

Did the chicken recover from the lack of oxygen?

The airs a tad thin up there isn't it?

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Outdoors
  • Location: West Sussex

To add to Lewis's 360 panorama, Arron has created a cool photosynth here http://goo.gl/OZgm6 (couldn't resist linking to it Arron, sorry ;-) )

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  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales
  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales

No problem, I was just heading over to post it but my laptop is still encoding a time lapse from yesterdays drive up and down the mountain! It's going slower than me on 2 hours sleep with a hangover lol! Will upload when done :D

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  • Location: West Malvern, West Midlands, 280m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow! Severe storms.
  • Location: West Malvern, West Midlands, 280m ASL

Chicken 1: Mt Evans 0 rofl.gif

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  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales
  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales

Here's a couple of shots from me and Ian has posted my 3D photosynth stood at the top of the mountain :D This is really cool because you can pan around and also zoom in :D

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=a774ca6b-69fe-446b-aa1a-1e60f6a324d9

Few pics :D

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I've got a time lapse that is uploading at the moment of the journey up and down so will post the link when done :)

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  • Location: Milton Keynes
  • Location: Milton Keynes

Fantasic day ! It really was hard work getting to the top, but soooo worth it, heres a few pics

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But thats enough sight seeing, back to the storms now clapping.gif

Craig

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  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales
  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales

Here's the time lapse, could probably have been better slowed down a bit but hey ho :) I think it's better half way through on the way down :D

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