Wales and Scotland

[Lightspeed]

OK, good Scenario

Of course nbeing LS I'd have to first fire up SW radio gear which is housed in a permanent manpack/faraday cage. That will allow me to gauge what's going on.

BOL is appox 2.5 hours travel.

Approx 1hr by bike, then pushing / carrying them another 1.5 hr uphill to the BOL, replenishing water from aquafer sorce stream just befe reaching BOL

Bikes already good to go.
BOB's already good to go
PV gear already good to go
Biggest time consumer packing as much foodstuff as we can onto the STEEL racks. (Variable amounts possible and must be balanced to weather conditions and ground conditions)

Using bikes, we'll be able to carry max 40kg each, but will have to emergency cache at least half of weight before ascent, then come back and collect on a second or third run. Load already suitably divided and cache locations identified.

Tested three times so far and multiple alternate routes in plece. Alternate routes will be quieter but less flat, thus adding to travel time.

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(8 October 2012, 15:22)bigpaul Wrote: BOL is 8 miles away, its an EMPTY unlocked house, i reckon even in bad weather and taking lots of rests we can walk/cycle there in 24 hours. anyone who reckons they can survive outdoors will be dead in the first bad weather of the first winter. i wont bug out unless its inevitable, say if TPTB want to evacuate everyone to the "rescue centres" (concentration camps!) then we will leave early morning, under cover of darkness/ just as its getting light, not so much sunrise as dawn time.

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(8 October 2012, 15:21)Scythe13 Wrote: Other than living at your BOL, if you were to go to Wales, like so many say they will, what would you do?

we wouldnt go to wales, too far too walk, too many unfriendly people, not safe, no way Jose!!

Good point Paul and probably realistic time frame to reach BOL if you are carrying a lot of weight.

I was assuming thatthe need was to abandon home in an emrgency. We plan to buk out in the wild before appropriating one of several candidate cottages in the area... this way we will be able to assess if the rightful owners are about to arrive unexpectedly.