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A Coniston backpack and some great news off Chief Happiness Officer,Ron

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Back in 2005 Oscar joined our family and the search for a shelter started,was along road.Then i saw a few odd pics of a Trailstar,a quick dash up after work to Langdale and Gordon Green let me put his up on the campsite ....WOW....So in 2011 i bought a Trailstar from Ron and the rest as they say is history.   The pics an adventures ive had under that Grey posh tarp ! are already posted up over the years,over those years ive chatted with Ron abit online,a recent chat about a web page id started left me coming away from the laptop grinning   Ron said he would send me a Trailstar in the new Silnlyon F.O.C   It landed in 10 days so i quickly cut ten  22" guys and one 90" one to be used on door guy   The weather was a bit pants so had to comprise a bit for seam sealing duties       New ones even lighter too.   So this wknd i set off walking with Ste over the Coniston range of hills,meeting Lee la

Two nites wild camping in the Lakes

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  Just a few odd pics and the video from my two night trip in the Lakes over the 12 th to 14 th Feb.Made possible in part by Alex Harper,,who very kindly picked up and returned my poles/Gopro that id left behind in a road side layby.Still a few good people out there,thanks again Alex                                                                       Above is the video of the trip