Last Minute Preparations

In less than 48 hours Catherine and I will be on a train to Bangor with enough camping gear to stall a minivan. With that in mind, you'd think I would have bought essential items, fixed my bike and planned the route by now; but you would be wrong. The list of things to do over the next two days is growing by the hour. It includes: buy helmet, repair spare inner tubes, cut hair, sew up the hole in my pannier, download audiobooks, do a 50 mile training ride, etc...

But at least some things have been ticked off the list. Finding campsites and planning routes is coming along well, and I am assembling them all into one google mega-map. On Saturday I managed a 92km training ride around London's northern green belt. I have even tested out updating this blog from my phone, although I still need to find a way of attaching the bottle dynamo that is supposed to charge it as we ride. Catherine has also obtained the OS maps we need to safely climb Snowdon, Scafell and Ben Nevis.


One important factor in this trip will be the weather. We are going to be travelling through some of the rainiest places in the UK at the end of one of the wettest months on record. However, the 14 day forecast for Cumbria (incredibly inaccurate as it is, especially coming from the shady metcheck.com) looks pretty good. We can only hope it stays this blue by the time we get to the lake district.

There is still so much more to do, so I shall get to it. The next time I post we may have climbed all 1085m Snowdon has to offer.