Stu

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My tent

Clean and tidy

Archery area

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Safety control

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Another busy day

and a bit of a weird one in terms of my body clock....
 Last night it was the first overnight shift for me on the site safety team, once everyone on site had settled down and gone to sleep not much happened, other than a leaky tap, and some deer in/arround serrengetti subcamp at 3am.
 After that it was off to breakfast and then an attempt to catch up on some much delayed sleep, before waking up for lunch, a quick shower then back on duty.
 Tuesday was visitors day, and with more people on site we had an incredibly busy day, ive just finished now until tommorow so it will soon  be time to catch up on some missing sleep.

Absailing

Not been to bed yet heres a photo of the absailing wall at 5 30

Three forty two am

Its now 3:42 am and all is quite, less than three hours to go

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Chips and burgers and stuff

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Street hockey

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Street hockey

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A Wet morning at peak

I woke up this morning to an warm but dry start, however this didnt last long and its now raining, although its supposed to dry up later.
 My next shift is tonight from 9:00pm to 06:30am the next morning,  so as far as the rest of today goes im planning on taking it easy, as im going to be up for quite a while.
 Yesterdays shift was the early 05:30am to 1:30pm shift which started quietly by patrolling round the still asleep campsite with not much more than  the odd bit of snoring from some leaders tents breaking the silence( loudest was on barrier reef subcamp) 
 The camp started to awaken just before 7am, and then it was off to man the main camp entrance towards the house, with plenty of day leaders arriving on site not knowing where they were supposed to be going, and quite a few other  random people who just  wanted to come in and have a look, these had to be turned away or re-directed down the public footpath that runs into baslow at the bottom end of the camp.
 As its going to be a long day im just chilling out at the moment before tonights shift.
Today also sees the start of the cub/brownie visiting days, which run until wednesday, and on Tuesday its visitors day/evening.
 There will be a few more photos from around the site posted later this afternoon, all being well.

Aerial photo

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Peak 2005 time capsule

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Frisbe

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Setting up

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Foam?

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Peak

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Black hole under construction

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Arrived on site

I finaly made it past the diversions (the A6 was/is closed in two places ) im all set up (just  ) and about to head out to the bar to see who else is here.

 its looking more like a campsite and less like empty fields now, the abseiling tower is taking shape, the main marquees are up, the toilet blocks and water taps are all connected, and the generators are chugging away quietly in the background.

 If you want a sneek peek at any areas of peak let me know by posting a comment below.

 all being well there should be more photos tomorrow

Peak 2010

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This way

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Less than a week to go

With less than a week to go, i think ive got everything sorted, and if nothings changed my first shift is on Saturday from 1:00pm to 9:30pm, followed by an early start with the 5:30am to 1:30pm shift, Monday its overnight from 21:30 to 06:00 and so on. 

 In the meantime have you read the peak information pack? you can download it form the official peak website at  http://www.peak2010.org/ its in the red box on the main page.

 ive got a few more photos, mostly of empty fields, so the next set of photos should be of the camp itself from later on Thrusday afternoon.

 Most of the updates on here will probably be done from a mobile phone, complete with a predictive text input that often causes some words to come out wrong, so the Rain has now stopped may appear as "The pain has now stopped"  

 There is a copy of a draft map towards the bottom of this blog, some things may have changed slightly, but the layout is the same.

Just to give you an idea of how long the camp is,  It took me over 20 minutes to walk the length of the camp, and that was with no one else around.

 Comments on this blog are welcome and can be made by clicking on the comments section at the bottom of each post.

Peak 2005 photos

Here are a few photos from the previous Peak camp, held in 2005














Theres more on Peak 2005 including more photos, and news from that camp here
Peak 2005 website (click)
And Peak the 2000 website Here 
Both websites contain a huge amount of photos, and information about what a peak camp looks like.