White Edge 30th January 2025

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Route

We parked in Curbar Edge car park for an easy walk up to the edge. The car park has good wi fi reception and you can use the Pay by Phone app with the location code 807041. You arent suppose to park overnight but I paid £6.30 to cover us to the end of the day. I did get a reminder at midnight that the parking was running out, and offering to extend it, but annoyingly I left it until it had actually run out and had to pay a fresh £6.30. Lesson learned!
The route up is pretty straightforward. Leave the car park and follow the signs past an walled field enclosure system, on a fairly steep but short, well paved set of steps and then along the well trodden path to the trig point. We spotted some rocks just off from the path and soon had our tents pitched.



Weather
The forecast was for a pretty cold evening with temperatures down to zero but a windchill of below -5. It was very cold, but once in the tents we soon warmed up. At about 2:30am I was woken up by rain and looked out from under the tent to see it was snowing. We didnt get as much as predicted but there was a very slight covering the next morning.

Equipment
I was very pleased to be back in the Lanshan 2, its a smashing tent. I had packed the z light closed cell sleeping pad actually inside my backpack, with a foil mat and Big Agnes Rapide SL inflatible pad. I used my OEX Leviathon 900 and Flextail pillow.
Cook system was the Wildside Featherlite windshield with its Tokes 700ml pot.
The DJI Osmo Pocket  3 kept complaining it was too cold to charge, but I kept it in my pocket and there was plenty of charge left. My tent light cut out towards the end of the evening, the battery had completely drained with the cold. I was very surprised to find that my 10,000mah power bank had also completely discharged, I should have taken steps to keep things warm.
The DJI Neo continued to misbehave. I was able to take an aerial shot at the car park, but it wouldn't do its follow me trick. When I set it to do a 20m circle quickshot in the morning, it happily trotted off to the 20m mark and started its route, but I realised that we were on a slope so as it swung around, it got closer and closer to the ground and eventually crashed on the heather. A second attempt with me stood on a rock was more successful, but this time as we were now in a more exposed location, and as the wind hit the Neo, it really struggled going into the wind. As it came to the leeward side of the circle, the wind pushed it towards the centre of the circle, so I got a very nice flypast shot. Once the circle was completed though, it had clearly lost the subject and just hung in the air about ten feet up. I eventually had to knock it out of the air with a tent pole.

Summary

Great weather, dry when we needed it but cold. Clothing and camping equipment behave very well and I was plenty warm enough.



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