Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Timing the trip.

The general plan is to allow the following:

5 hours for Ben Nevis
6 hours driving to Scafell Pike
5 hours for Scafell Pike
4 hours driving to Snowden
4 hours for Snowden

This apparently allows just enough time to stick to speed limits and for everyone in reasonable shape to complete the climbs. However we time it we'll be walking at night for certain parts of it so I've used a useful little tool http://photoephemeris.com/ to calculate sunrise and sunset times for the 3 locations (give or take a few minutes)

Ben Nevis: 04:38 - 21:57
Scafell Pike: 04:46 - 21:34
Snowden: 04:57 - 21:28

Will have to check with the team but I think my preference will be to do Ben Nevis in the evening so we finish in twilight and can drive through the night (6 hours sleep in the minibus) to Scafell Pike, starting there a little before sunrise. Should be able to get some nice sunset and sunrise shots too.


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