Monday 7 July 2014

Mountaineering in Sussex ?

Hi All,
On Saturday we were flying at Newhaven Fort when Graham U made a landing at the top of a tree. The tree was about 20ft high, but was down in a very steep bowl. It was inaccessible from the top of the bowl, so it got left till this morning.
You can just make out the Blue Fusion in the tree in the middle of the picture -
Graham and I went to work out how to recover it this morning armed with every tool we could think of, plus a ladder, cutters, 50ft of rope, etc.....

We decided to make a path to the tree from the sea end on the bowl rather than descend the very steep side. We beat our way through 6ft growth of stingers and brambles and traversed the very steep slope till we reached the tree.
Once there, I was able to climb the tree and retrieve the Fusion. The walk back was much quicker along our earlier ready-made path.

Here's Graham after the episode -
All was well with the Fusion - just a very flat battery. We're now nursing many cuts and scratches, but it was worth the adventure.
See you soon
Rob

1 comment:

  1. Thank you, Rob for all your endeavours this morning! A job well done. G.

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