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agentmancuso
20th May 2010, 05:29 PM
Rob, I saw the log for Maughold Head (http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/trig-details.php?t=7585) today. The Passive Station database lists it as a surface block, but given the location that seems unlikely, as you say. The sketch (http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/stationpics/gif/C1SC4991.gif) probably bears out the Bolt theory too; the accompanying photo (http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/stationpics/jpg/C1SC4991.jpg)is more dramatic than usual, but entirely useless.
agentmancuso
20th May 2010, 05:51 PM
Just noticed Peel Inner Lighthouse Jetty (http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/trig-details.php?t=7584)too. That just leaves 25 passives still be added to T:UK by my reckoning. :cheers:
Sagina nivalis
20th May 2010, 08:12 PM
photo is more dramatic than usual, but entirely useless.

Actually it probably would help - worth taking a copy of it plus sketch. Of course I had no prior plan to visit it: didin't realise it was there til it showed up on the POI en route to the nearby summit. Peel Inner Lighthouse Jetty is also a SB according to the Passives DB, which is daft. There are other examples - whoever compiled it was keen on SBs or didn't know the difference? Or does Surface Block have a wide range of meanings in OS circles?
agentmancuso
24th May 2010, 11:03 PM
There are other examples - whoever compiled it was keen on SBs or didn't know the difference? Or does Surface Block have a wide range of meanings in OS circles?

I reckon the former. It has certainly happened before, though I can't think of any off hand.
Happy Humphrey
6th June 2010, 10:21 AM
Just noticed Peel Inner Lighthouse Jetty (http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/trig-details.php?t=7584)too. That just leaves 25 passives still be added to T:UK by my reckoning. :cheers:
That may be the same as http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3W_Peel_Castle_IOM
I might be able to have a look at Maughold Head in the near future.
agentmancuso
6th June 2010, 05:23 PM
That may be the same as http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3W_Peel_Castle_IOM

Yes, certainly looks like it.



I might be able to have a look at Maughold Head in the near future.
Good stuff, more likely to be a bolt that anything else.
Happy Humphrey
7th June 2010, 11:24 AM
I may get chance to visit this evening. In the meantime, perhaps this will be of interest;
http://www.gov.im/lib/docs/dlge/planning/gps%20stations/MAUG.pdf
agentmancuso
7th June 2010, 11:21 PM
Aye indeed, well found!
Sagina nivalis
8th June 2010, 10:08 PM
That may be the same as http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3W_Peel_Castle_IOM


Reckon so! Don't remember seeing the dog though :D

Good luck with the Bolt, and enjoy the view.
Sagina nivalis
8th June 2010, 10:11 PM
PS how come I'm a Thread necromancer :confused: what did I do??? lol
Happy Humphrey
9th June 2010, 12:38 AM
Good luck with the Bolt, and enjoy the view.
Thanks. I got caught up with various motorcycle-related events tonight though, so the visit has been postponed. But watch this space...
agentmancuso
9th June 2010, 05:59 PM
PS how come I'm a Thread necromancer :confused: what did I do??? lol

No idea what that means. But hey, an award is an award :cheers:
Happy Humphrey
9th June 2010, 09:02 PM
Well, I went in search of the bolt, and didn't find it. There's a lot more gorse than on the photo, and I suspect that it's under a particularly viscous little bush. I didn't have shears, gloves or knife with me; otherwise I might have stood a chance! I did spend half an hour there, and had the sketch map and photo to help. But it will take a return visit with better equipment, I think!
Bear and Ragged
9th June 2010, 10:56 PM
No idea what that means. But hey, an award is an award :cheers:

Necromancer (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necromancer) :eek:


:lol:
Bear and Ragged
9th June 2010, 10:59 PM
Or Wiki version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancer)...
agentmancuso
10th June 2010, 05:28 PM
Well, I went in search of the bolt, and didn't find it. There's a lot more gorse than on the photo, and I suspect that it's under a particularly viscous little bush. I didn't have shears, gloves or knife with me; otherwise I might have stood a chance! I did spend half an hour there, and had the sketch map and photo to help. But it will take a return visit with better equipment, I think!

Better luck next time.

>necromanacer

Hmm, yes, I get the black magic stuff, I just was unaware how it related to Rob. Though I suppose down there in the Fens has to be pretty rife with that sort of thing :ph34r:
Sagina nivalis
10th June 2010, 08:34 PM
>necromanacer

Indeed. A summoner of dead threads? :dunno:

Bad luck HH - hope you score next time. I tried for several gorsy summit bolts on the Scilly Isles, largely unsuccessfully :(