Thursday Night Trips - 10th April 2014

[Tony Salusbury]

Here are this week's trips folks.

Trip A - Penarth Slate Mine

An interesting and easy to navigate slate mine.

The main mine is essentially a giant circle with a rail track almost running completely around in a circle. On the outside of the rail track are numerous slate chambers and on the inside is a lower mine level.

Additionally. There is a single raised incline leading to a single chamber with an interesting functional wheel.

The mine benefits from calcite intrusions as well as areas of calcite tear drops.

So far as slate mines go, it is not huge but it is interesting and unique in it’s own right with around 2-3 hours of exploration available.

Going


In Tims Landy from Cilcain Bridge:

1- Tony
2- Tim
3- Doug
4- Sweetie
5- Murf

Meeting at the layby/corwen

6- Ant
7- Dylan (maybe)
8- David 'Neo'

Meeting Places
Can either meet at Cilcain Bridge at 6.30 and those who are there can pack into a few vehicles as possible, or can meet at the layby on the A5 between Corwen and Llangollen at approx 7.00, and then we can all head up to the mine.

Layby on A5 - Everyone to meet up here at approx 7pm
https://goo.gl/maps/zLZps

We should be in the mine for about 2-3 hours which gives us just enought time to catch last orders in the nearest water hole.
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Trip B - Maeshafn Mine

Richard Timms and his daughter will be going here along with Vikki so anyone who doesn't fancy the Penarth Trip can come along to see this interesting little mine.

A good little mine. Dirty with squeezes in places and a bit of crawling, so kneepads and gloves a good idea.

Meeting Place
Maeshafn Village - 6.30pm
https://goo.gl/maps/xj9qv

Going
Vikki, Richard and Daughter, Ian (maybe)

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Add your names on here or via text/email and I will keep attendee lists updated.

Would also like to say a big thank you to Vikki for posting up all the midweek trips this past year. I will be posting trips on here, via texts, emails, carrier pigeons, smoke signals etc etc.

Also, how the heck do you embed google maps on here? I can't seem to do it anymore  :S

[Richard Timms]

Thanks Vikki, we'll be at Maeshafn for a rare thursday trip out.

[Tim Watts]

As many as possible please meet at cilcain bridge at 6:30 and I'll take everyone over there in the landrover and up the mountain through the forest tracks - saves a LOT of time!

Anyone who would prefer to meet at the layby - thats fine - i'll pick you up from there and still drive up the mountain in the landy.

[Tony Salusbury]

Thought best to add the layby as another meet point incase people would be coming out of their way getting to Cilcain.

Can you remember who else said they were coming in the pub last week?

[Ian A]

[quote="WelshSossy" post=22523]
Can you remember who else said they were coming in the pub last week?[/quote]


Did I miss something at the AGM or did you just carry on after I left ?   :S

Ian

[Ian A]

Stick me down for provisional at Maeshafn (I have a meeting I need to move/cancel) - I think it would be helpful to have a second pair of eyes  

Ian

[Anthony Britner]

How did you know I was going to Penarth

I'll meet you in the layby unless Your willing to call by mine again Tim? Seems a bit pointless for me to drive in the wrong direction!

[Tim Watts]

Meet me in the layby - or beter still at the pull in for the farm at the start of the forest track we go up - theres space for your car particularly if yours is the only one - i'll be approaching from the Corwen side so it'll save me having to overshoot to the layby and back again.

[Tim Watts]

[quote="WelshSossy" post=22523]Thought best to add the layby as another meet point incase people would be coming out of their way getting to Cilcain.

Can you remember who else said they were coming in the pub last week?[/quote]

yer perfect.

Murf - and i reminded him on the phone last night (i've edited top post to add him), and I thought Mike was coming to? (added with a ??). If sweetie and Doug are coming i expect Crazy might too - i'll try to find out.

[Tony Salusbury]

Spoke to Mike at the weekend, he said he couldn;t make it now.

[Tim Watts]

paaaa - poor show! :-P Bloody big girls blouse, Lovely Slate mine not good enough for you captain?

[Anthony Britner]

ok, will be at the farm track.

[Tony Salusbury]

Yeah come on Mike, it's a 'pretty' slate mine this time. Lmao.  :woohoo:

[Tim Watts]

I've been to worse - it is actually quite a nice one

[Robin Jones]

Cool looking forward to it.  Will be bringing Richard & Iestyn's clothing order along with chest harness for Iestyn to pass on to someone doing the Yorkshire trip.