What did you get up to? Feel free to add your own photos of trips in 2008 :)

First up, SimonRL's photo of Sunday's trip to Moel Fferna, an excellent way to round off the year:

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Myself and a couple of cousins tried our hand at gold panning. 🙂

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Bloody ell .... thats just what i thoiught you looked like.... eerie or what???? 😉 :lol:

Edit..... Which one is Billy Joe Jim Kie?
:flowers:

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Oh well here goes.... This had to be my highlight at Penmaenmawr back in May, ICLOK, Waggonwayman, and Penmorfa. Would you buy a used De Winton from these people????
Happy New Year to all.
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Shouldn't this be shown after the 2100 watershed? :lol:

Happy New Year to you all. :flowers:

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Shouldn't this be shown after the 2100 watershed? :lol:

Happy New Year to you all. :flowers:

We will all be dead by then! Also, isn't 92 years a bit late for a review of this year?
😉

oOpsH CrAnkie wat dish yew sHay... Hic..... Whersh ThIs Ear WatEr SHed .... aM BustINg foR OnE...... :confused: :lol:

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I think my photo of the year wasn't taken by me, nor was it actually taken this year!

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Uploaded by Seend.

Good likeness tho ::)

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Some memorible trips of mine:

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Smallcleugh with Ben, Wheel and Ballroom flats.


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Gleann Sannox Barite Mine, with Allan.

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Varios trips to Wales with Merddinemrys, SimonRL, Vannoord, manicminer, Hymac, Colonel Mustard.

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That 'trip' to Honister that six of us did.

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This certain dirty Iron Mine I went to nr Barrow-in-Furness.

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Wonderful photos from LAP but I suppose if forced to choose it would have to be the sequence of the Black Angel Mine. Obviously not taken by me.

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Feeling everyone of my 21 years at the moment.

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Boulby 2008, superb trip, met some super fellow mine explorers, lucky to get a place, thanks to all

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:thumbsup:

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July 2008. Not sure if this counts. Sitting on the terrace of our house on Cyprus watching the sun go down after another day of 40 degrees + Celsius and sipping an ice cold beer.

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Idly wondering if it's still raining in Nenthead and imagining the feeling of cold water slowly overflowing into my wellies at the Smallcleugh entrance.
Earlier I had walked down to our nearest Internet Cafe and logged onto Adit Now, but nothing new had happened. Most of the mines on Cyprus (and there are a few) are big holes in the ground, except one north of Larnaca which has a traditional adit entrance supported with steel arching British steel - style, but you need a 4x4 to get there. Rather sit out here getting toasted.
Only another 6 weeks to go ..... sorry. Until later this year, that is.


Manxman.

Idly wondering if it's still raining in Nenthead and imagining the feeling of cold water slowly overflowing into my wellies at the Smallcleugh entrance.


Manxman.

Nah the sun was splitting the heavens at Nenthead today.
.....has been for days.

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Nah the sun was splitting the heavens at Nenthead today.
.....has been for days.

It was truly gorgeous up there on New Years Day.

I'll vote JamesL's picture of a flooded Harnisha Burn which I can't find now. That and a Saturday morning with nothing else to do helped me discover that the North Pennines were more than a place that you speed past on the way to the Lakes. 😉

I have edited my original posting. That was last year. Never fear, Nenthead/Weardale/Teesdale are still special places for me, both on the surface and underground, but UK summers are the pits. Global worming, give me a break.

Manxman.

An excellent set of photos from LAP, looks like you had a few good trips.

One of my aims, after signing up to Adit Now & ME, the very reason I decided to start underground exploration again after a very lengthy break, was to try and discover the old haunts from the 1980's.

One place in particular, an old favourite, was Long Rake spar mine in Derbyshire,last visited by me in 1988.

Although there have been many collapses of timbering in that time, you can, just about, explore a great deal of the mine, so I was glad to rediscover a couple of places very recently.

Especially this shot of the small ore wagon, taken in 1986 .

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I finally found it again n December 2008,

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And it is the same explorer now aged 62 in the wagon.

Another spot was the great stope, very badly lit in 1986,

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I finally got round to photograhing this stope late December 2008, and quite by chance took almost the exact same shot without realising it, although the lighting has got better.

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So all in all,I can say I've had a really good first years exploring.

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Thanks;
Must have been very rewarding to re-descover those places.

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A couple more:

Under the Hoover Dam:

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Parys mountain - a great day out, although I think SimonRL may have bent the truth a bit when he said "all the tunnels are at least seven feet high"

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Floor 2 Adit work at Cwmorthin - a huge amount achieved, thank you to all who attended:

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