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Post lock down overnighter at Gelli

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Went to a friends spot, Near Narberth, called Gelli. Privately owned, mixed woodland, mainly spruce and oak with a few birch, beech hawthorn and rowan dotted about the place....
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The tent is old and covered in moss, site was formerly used as a retreat, owners life on site in a caravan, lovely salt of the earth couple.
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Jay showed me a new tarp setup, which I have adopted as my Own. Placing the tarp over the ridge line, and rotating the trap by 90 degrees, so the seam of the tarp runs horizontal to the ridge line, giving more attachments at the sides to pull out giving a little more space, and a better surface to deflect the wind (I feel an explanation video coming up in the future)
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First day, was a wet one, so the day was spent around the campfire, cooking eating and talking, catching up with what we had missed over the lock down period.
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Got to finally try out my new sleep system, bit warm for the summer months, but very very comfortable. DD camping hammock with DD under quilt, Vango self inflating mat, Snugpack TBS sleeping bag, Andes fleece liner. Ended up sleeping with the bag open and like a quilt as wayyyyyyy too warm.
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Day two was spent with Jay teaching me some knots, alpine butterfly, sheet bend, klemheist, French prussik, to name a few (Hes a fire and rescue serviceman, sailing & climbing instructor) showing me a way he likes to set up his tarp as a tent, followed by more eating and talking, and sharing ideas about our next camp out together. All in all was a great time and just awesome to be out in the woods again.
 

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That looks a cracking place for a getaway Jon, you'll have to talk nicely to the owners. Good to see the dutch oven getting used, heavy buggers but great on the open fire, glad you had a good one mate.
My mate has the owners permission, they turned up and had a chat while we were there, lovely couple. The dutchie was used to bake bread, but no pictures sadly as after 5hrs slow baking it was burnt on the bottom and still uncooked on the top, try again next time. The lamb stew I made was cracking though! Both went to bed with full stomachs and plenty of gas to keep us warm:rofl::rofl:
 
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