Day 2 - A little bit of windy weather
One of the daily tasks in Derbyshire is to track the weather. Taking account of the weather when out on the hills is fundamental to staying safe and enjoying the great outdoors whatever it throws at you. So as well as the groups taking and recording daily readings we have a raspberry pi set up to take hourly readings of air pressure, humidity and temperature. Over the last 24 hours or so the air pressure has fallen from 1012 down to 999 and back up to 1007, which basically means a low pressure has passed over us. With that comes strong winds. Very strong winds means that climbing on Stanage Edge had to be reviewed and we changed the afternoon programme to abseiling in Millars Dale on the viaduct. Some would say this is more fun anyway.
Here are a couple of pictures from today's abseiling activity just to give you an idea:
Another highlight today was hunting for bats with bat detectors. Sadly the rain came this evening so there were very few bats to be seen around the grounds. But, we did hear some great bat sounds from their roosts. Identification is proving very difficult so we are going to try and record them tomorrow and if we do then we might be able to post a soundtrack on the blog.
Another windy day is forecast for tomorrow - we may have to change plans again.
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