Clowed types

These are the cloud types, there prity interesting. Alto and stratuse clouds are good they mean high pressure and god wether. Cumulus clouds are a shin of pressure dropping and bad wether on the way and nimbostratus means low pressure and rain!

Moveable feasts

This book isnt as good as the one below as it takes a little more skill involdved, like building a fire and stuff, but it gives really good, simple, student freindly recipies.
I'd highly recomend this book for fellow campers or true picknicker's. Its got meany resipies that can be made from useing your camping stove. I think its awsome as it give's you ideas healthy food to eat and give's insperation fort houghs camping trip that super noodles really dont hit the spot.

The resipie for flap jacks are really good. My favrot is adding banana and rasins humm......

Brockenspectre

A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, or even from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region. It can be seen in any mountain region, such as the Haleakalā National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii, or the Cairngorms, Scotland.

The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects the climber's shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points at all by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.

The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory, rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets. The effect is caused by the diffraction of visible light.

Mark Twight is an alpine climbing ledgend, he's writen this book about his carazy alpine climbing ethics, were less is more, where taking the bare minimum to survive is the norm for him. For example having an energy gel very 30 minutes and drinking 4 leters of water an hour to climb some crazy loss hard climbs in the alps.

Makes me feel like a bit of a wimp.

A rout that took me and my freind 2 hole days to do he could do it in 4 hours!

BBC's

Event: BMC British Bouldering Championships

Britain's premier bouldering competition will take place over the weekend of 26-27 June. This year the British Bouldering Championships will be held the weekend before the Cliffhanger outdoor festival in Sheffield, to make way for the IFSC Bouldering World Cup the following weekend!

After entering the British Uin's compition in March and winning! I thought that just maybe I might be good enough to enter the BBC's this summer! I will be competing with Britens best boulders. Better get cracking with the training!

Outdoor Mountain Quillifications

Hopefully by the end of the summer I will have my: SPA and Summer ML assessed and possibaly MIA.

Wish me luck!

OUTDOOR FABRICS AND STUFF

PENNINE OUTDOOR - Sells outdoor fabrics

FABRICS - N - STUFF

RIPSTOP NYLON: 1.1oz ripstop nylon fabric: Ripstop fabric, sometimes called a sports fabric, is a woven, lightweight, nylon-threaded material that resists tearing and ripping.Ripstop fabric can be water resistant and is commonly used for camping equipment such as tents and the outer shells of sleeping bags. It is also used to make hang glider and parasail wings, parachutes, hot air balloons, sails, kites, flags, banners and sports clothes. The tough beating ripstop fabric can take makes it ideal for any application that requires material that won't fail under stress.

PERTEX- High performance nylon microfibre.

Condensation free. Quick drying. Wind, down and fibre proof. Very high abrasion resistance. Uses: Inner tents, sleeping bags, wind and showerproof clothing. Ideal for making "Slide Sheets" for moving patients. This fabric should be washed at a maximum of 40 degrees.