Yesterdays walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club was a good test for our foul weather gear, mine failed abysmally 🙁
We 11 started from St Mary’s Church car park at Rougham, in very wet and windy conditions, so it was heads down for the first 9 miles to Bradfield St Clare and a spot of lunch in the shelter of the church porch, followed by a drink at the Fox & Hounds in Bradfield St. George. The afternoon cleared up a little so we started to dry out.
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| From Rougham Walk |
Very disappointing for me in that the left boot of my brand new Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots sprang a leak. So it’s back to Open Air with them today! My RAB Bergen jacket (QWA-05-RDB) was as useless as ever with little streams inside the arms and the pockets filling with water. It’s time has now come – I will return it to RAB. A quick survey of the other 10 people in our party showed the Karrimor & Berghaus as highly effective, the Paramo did OK too but they are really heavy to lug around on extended walks.
Here is the walk and photographs:-
Rougham circular walk
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Update 021109 – Open Air agree boots are faulty , should have new pair by Friday 🙂
very hardy people us walkers, not put off by the rain at all……. and lets face it what else would you do on such a wet and windy day 🙂 .
very hardy people us walkers, not put off by the rain at all……. and lets face it what else would you do on such a wet and windy day 🙂 .