We made it back after a successful night even if it was a little cold (actually, make that a lot cold). Our options for keeping warm certainly seemed to be an improvement on the last time, and Chris' first night hammocking went pretty well.
Got up there about 5ish and setup camp in the same spot as last time, Michael's Hennessey Hammock was very quick n easy to put up - just two knots either end and the hammock and tarp all pitched together. Got mine and Chris' tarps up to give us plenty coverage to sit under for food and get our hammocks in. Nice little crossover of tarps with some architechtural precision to get any water to run off away from our heads! With the tarps up and sleeping bags all sorted we settled down for tea.
'Mam' (aka Michael) had a lovely chilli pasta and meatballs prepared in no time which definitely hit the spot. Followed down by MOD Fruit Dumplings (Me) and Choc Sponge (Michael) finished off a cracking tea. Oh yeah; and some JD n Coke, more JD n Coke (minus the Coke), and some bottles of Bud that Michael and Chris drove out to Kielder to get!!
Decided around 10ish to call it a night partly because it was getting fairly cold and partly because we'd got sick of each other... lol. We all slept OK, Michael doing the best with a 12-6am stint. The underblankets and double sleeping mat worked well although the mat still kept moving around and the double was a bit too big once it got down to it. The underblanket is the way to go I think but some slight adjustments to be made to finish them off. Designs are being drawn up for Mk3.
Up at 6:30 the next day to a sunny morning, temp reading on the car showing 1.5 degrees at 7am so we think it got close to freezing point early morning! Brrrrrr. Couple of Croissants for breakie then packed up our stuff for home. All in all a good night camping. Can't wait to try it in the summer though!
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