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Chris Collyer Jun 25, 2003 21:47:02
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Thanks for posting that other picture, I thought the sunrise might be delayed by the hills but was expecting it further north over Blencathra. Am I right in thinking that Souther Fell is the little bit to the right of Blencathra and to the left of Great Mell Fell on the plan? (so the sun first appeared just to the left of where I’ve marked Penrith ?). If so then I’ll update the plan, then add the Winter Solstice in due course and tidy the thing up a bit.
200 people sounds about a nice maximum for a circle that size, I must admit the 30000 at Stonehenge would be a bit too much for me these days!
(you didn’t stay for the sunset by any chance?)

-Chris

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fitzcoraldo Jun 25, 2003 22:10:28
Replying to Chris Collyer

Hiya Chris,
that's a crackin' diagram. I would guestimate the sunrise as the point where the slope from Blencathra joins the flatter part of the diagram just North of Penrith. I would say that the first rays of the sun hit the stones at around 05:30.
I can't be more precise as I was a little distracted. I took my lad and his mate camping to Pooley for the weekend and dragged them out of bed at 04:00 after sleeping - in. I was worried we'd miss the sunrise so I drove like a nutter down the A66 with one eye on the sun rear view mirror. We hit the site at around 04:30 but we needn't have worried, the fells saved the sunrise for us.
We stayed until around 06:00. My lad was most disgruntled at having been dragged from his lovely warm sleeping bag and bundled into a field full of "strange people who scared him" to watch an event that happens every day, poor little bugger who can blame him? I'd brought a flask of hot chocolate, sarnies and bags of sweets but the little fellas were not open to bribery so we left as soon as the sun was up and everything had settled.