Fair weather boxing
brinbunny
2011-11-15 18:21:09
Question?
Do you weather watch? Are you prepared to go out in every weather?
My answer is no i only plan to travel down if the weather looks promising, but if I am out I keep going as long as possible.
Another daft question?
Are the 'extreme' boxes? Such as boxes that require serious skills?
bog_baby
2011-11-16 19:24:05
We go down to see family so weather is not really a factor (unless we can't get there because of snow). I have no problem going out when it's grey/chilly/drizzly and find it can be quite atmospheric. In fact my best experiences (although limited) have been in the drizzle because everywhere we've been on lovely days have been overrun.
I've never heard of extreme boxes and would think it would go against the idea of safety but I'm by no means an expert.......
Dartymoor
2011-11-17 07:26:12
Agree with BB, but sometimes that decision to go out is a lot harder to make when it's wet and horrid, but usually when I am out in the rain I tend to enjoy it.
I find the trigger point when I want to go home is when my underpants get wet, or my trousers so heavy I have to keep hitching them up.
My family have a running joke this year. I live by Hennock on the east side, and on many many occasions this year I've left on a beautiful sunny morning and when I've reached my destination elsewhere on dartmoor it's been wet, rainy, windy, foggy or all four at once. They think I have my own personal cloud, rather than the moor being it's usual unpredictable self.
Nik - KOTM
2011-11-17 07:33:39
I have been out there in nice pleasant days, extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme wet, hurricane force winds, blizzards, hail storms, sub-zero, freezing fog, pea soup fog... the best days are obviously cool fresh light breezy days, the worst are extreme heat and pea soup fog, and the high winds can be annoying trying to light a tab.
Gemma
2011-11-18 20:23:50
When one travels a lot of miles to get to the Moor one is not put off by a little dampness. I recall many times sitting in the car saying to the other half it is getting better, and then 10 minutes later,rain still lashing down, getting sorted & wandering off. It is only rain folks & skin is water proof!!
Still wet though!!! :D :D
Sowerby Streaker
2011-11-18 22:20:42
Yes skin is waterproof and also if you have a very good set of waterproofs there is no problem with going out in the rain. BUT the problem comes when you find a box, try to open it in pouring rain, try to keep the book and stamp dry in the pouring rain and most of all, trying to get a decent copy of the stamp in the pouring rain plus trying not to get all your cards, or books or whatever you stamp in dry. Thats why I don't letterbox in the rain :roll:
Nik - KOTM
2011-11-18 23:07:46
Tried an umbrella?
Dartymoor
2011-11-19 07:17:44
What about a bowler hat and pinstripe suit too? :)
Sowerby Streaker
2011-11-19 09:10:21
Yep - trying to hold on to one whilst its pouring and blowing, tthen trying to stop the drips from my hood dripping on the book and stamp is not easy. Have tried stamping up with hands and box inside a polythene bag, but not worth it. I like a nice copy of a stamp that I have walked a fair few miles for, not a soggy bit of paper with the colours all running :roll:
Gemma
2011-11-19 19:52:16
Yep - trying to hold on to one whilst its pouring and blowing, tthen trying to stop the drips from my hood dripping on the book and stamp is not easy. Have tried stamping up with hands and box inside a polythene bag, but not worth it. I like a nice copy of a stamp that I have walked a fair few miles for, not a soggy bit of paper with the colours all running :roll:
Yep been there. Under the brella, blows inside out, drips off the sleeve of the water proof. Splat on the post card big mess OH what fun we do have.
But it is a record of the day :D
Nik - KOTM
2011-12-07 19:16:54
Extreme boxes can only mean boxes a fair distance away from any road. Boxes are not allowed to be put in any dangerous sites like quarry cliffs. But I have known a few in hard to get places like under an overhang next to a river which required a bit of wriggling to get
moorland wizard
2011-12-07 20:35:08
saing that nik, there used to be boxers that did do extreme boxing having to wade out to get boxes in some cases......
Sowerby Streaker
2011-12-07 20:38:47
There used to be a letterboxer - still around - who put boxes down mine shafts and in Adits :roll: You would be surprised how many still went in after them. Grants Pot one was a doddle compared to many others. I remember going to look for one in the Bushdown Mine Adit, only got a few feet in and chickened out :?
whoisthechallenger
2011-12-07 20:45:04
Let us not forget those boxes hanging in willow clumps in head mires! I also seem to remember climbing down into underground workings at Foggintor Quarry to collect a box too.
The Wandering Artist
2011-12-07 22:27:56
Can recall quite a few that challenged the most ardent boxer some of which -
1. on a ledge high up on Dunnagoat Tor!
2. Merlins cave - when river in 'flood'!
3. Grants Pot
4. cliff face Foggingtor Quarry - SE side.
5. Two Brothers Adit
6. Adit in large gully just NE of Bennets cross (back in 1990`s) at N end - not very well known!
7. Dragonfly pool - on a small island in a very watery/ bogey area!
8. Fox Tor mires - on a small 'island' in a very (dangerous) boggy area. but not far from the 'tinners way' across the mires.
moorland wizard
2011-12-08 13:38:57
wonder if these are still going on in obscure places