Fire Starters

Went on another hike up the local mountain yesterday evening, this time planning to get some more night shots of Cwm Lickey. Adam, Paul and myself set out at the later time of 4pm from the Lamb and basically went via the mast, the local reservoir, up to the top on the mountain, back to another mast and finally bounced off that back to Cwm Lickey.

I know I said it was cold in Cardiff on Friday night, but it wasn't nearly as cold as it was last night, there was a non stop wall of wind which we had to contend with, making it much harder to move around than usual, coupled with the fact that there was quite a lot of snow still up there which would blow up in your face at inappropriate moments. Other than that the walk itself was very successful (read: we didn't get lost this time!).

When we actually got the Cwm Lickey Paul and Adam started a little camp fire and I circled the lake to get some long exposure shots:

This week we actually managed to get a proper fire started which was quite nice to warm your hands on. As we left, like good little campers we put some water on the fire to put it out, the fire turned to embers. Just as we were starting to leave a gust of wind caught the embers and restarted the fire! This led to Adam and Paul running around the place like a couple of flamenco dancers trying to stamp out the fire/embers which spread quite rapidly (this was very funny at the time but doesn’t seem to translate as well in text).

Here is the link to my gallery of shots from this hike.