High Water Orienteering

When I got back to The Cottage yesterday evening, I emptied 55mm of rain out of the rain gauge. Three hours later, there was another 35mm in it! A spring has even started to bubble up in the grass outside! With such a deluge, that continued on into the night, I popped over to Llanberis today to check out the waterfall!

The rising water levels and inclement weather made today's orienteering session a little harder than normal - especially as one of the markers is on the end of this jetty!

 

Almost inevitably, after a relatively heroic effort to stay psyched about mapwork in the cold and rain we navigated our way into Pete's Eats to dry off and warm up over a mug of tea. All was not lost though as the front page of The Guardian supplement proved to be an excellent teaching aid, when it came to discussing grid references and geography!