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2020-05-03 11:23:37 UTC
Anyone still around?? Wow! Twenty years on and the traffic is certainly not what it once was.
Ok... this is a call out for Martin Richardson and everyone who attended URW expeditions in the 00s. I was at 10 of those meetings along with my camcorder and I inexpertly took footage of each one. It wasn't great footage but as far as I know, I was the only one doing so. So, it's all there is and all there will ever be. Now, I knocked out a few VHS tapes for interested parties back in the day. Martin sent back his tape for me to add some new ones and that was well over a decade ago. Possibly over 15 years ago. I always said that I would get around to doing it and, due to the excess of free time just lately, I have. At last. And not before time as the medium of those tapes is utterly obsolete and I had to go on ebay for a secondhand camcorder to play them back as my own camera was kaput.
The meets I filmed were: Expedition 1 - Snowdonia / 2- Lakes / 3 - Gower / 6 - Skye (including an epic and always memorable ascent of the Inn Pinn, thanks to Graham Seed) / 7 - Rhinogs / 8 - Dartmoor wild camp / 9 - Brecon Beacons / 11 - Edale / 13 - Bala / ?? - Patterdale (can't recall the number).
This is now all on MP4 and amounts to about 10GB in all. I can put on USB and mail it to whoever wants a copy.
I realise that this may not reach those interested parties but I hope it will. It is horrible how quickly time slips by. It is now almost 10 years since the 10th anniversary Snowdonia meet. I guess that for some of the group, their walking days are over or have been scaled back. And I fear that one or two may no longer be with us.
They were great times and I am glad we all made the effort and put some excellent memories into these fading memory banks.
Best wishes to all. Ian.
Ok... this is a call out for Martin Richardson and everyone who attended URW expeditions in the 00s. I was at 10 of those meetings along with my camcorder and I inexpertly took footage of each one. It wasn't great footage but as far as I know, I was the only one doing so. So, it's all there is and all there will ever be. Now, I knocked out a few VHS tapes for interested parties back in the day. Martin sent back his tape for me to add some new ones and that was well over a decade ago. Possibly over 15 years ago. I always said that I would get around to doing it and, due to the excess of free time just lately, I have. At last. And not before time as the medium of those tapes is utterly obsolete and I had to go on ebay for a secondhand camcorder to play them back as my own camera was kaput.
The meets I filmed were: Expedition 1 - Snowdonia / 2- Lakes / 3 - Gower / 6 - Skye (including an epic and always memorable ascent of the Inn Pinn, thanks to Graham Seed) / 7 - Rhinogs / 8 - Dartmoor wild camp / 9 - Brecon Beacons / 11 - Edale / 13 - Bala / ?? - Patterdale (can't recall the number).
This is now all on MP4 and amounts to about 10GB in all. I can put on USB and mail it to whoever wants a copy.
I realise that this may not reach those interested parties but I hope it will. It is horrible how quickly time slips by. It is now almost 10 years since the 10th anniversary Snowdonia meet. I guess that for some of the group, their walking days are over or have been scaled back. And I fear that one or two may no longer be with us.
They were great times and I am glad we all made the effort and put some excellent memories into these fading memory banks.
Best wishes to all. Ian.