Team SkunkWorks of Evil: scumrun 2013

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

MOVING PICTURES !!!

During the run we had an on-board camera connected to a laptop recording time lapse (4 frames per second) video of the entire trip. This has been sat on Greggs HDD ever since and not touched. Finally, I managed to prize it out of his death grip and edit the footage into something meaningful, so here it is in all its glory....

ScumRun 2013 Time-Lapse video from Adrian Bawn on Vimeo.

~~(Note: It seems I cant embed vimeo videos so just click the link above :) )~~
Fixed the embeddening - Cabe.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Route !

After some fumbling with our GPS logging app, I have managed to extract the logged data... below is the full map of our route as recorded via the GreenAlp logger. Enjoy...

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Day 5 : Champagne, Convoy and Calais

The last day, and we awake to glorious sunshine. The route today will be pretty much a straight-shot back to Calais, with a minor detour, although we don't quite know where that detour might be. While waiting for the route cards we cook up a double helping of bacon and dry off the tents ready for the road.

Mornin' chicken...

The morning after the night before... Surprisingly I managed to get a pretty good nights sleep. Gregg didn't fare quite as well due to some issues when setting up his tent. Dampness was substantial, but as the temperature didn't fall too low, it wasn't that bad.

Last night we (and several other teams) chose to upgrade to a chalet. The facilities were pretty basic (a bed, basin, radiator, and shared toilet) but afforded us a night of relative comfort and more importantly warmth and quiet. Camping is ok, but I prefer camping with 4 walls and a bed :)

Day 2 : Bacon, Beurocracy, and Berlin

After a night of light partying and bratwurst, and a relatively good nights sleep, we start the day with bacon rolls. What more does a growing lad need? Conveniently the GTO has a nice flat space on the boot exactly the right size for the gas cooker to fit on, so the fry-up was achieved with relative ease.

Well that was fun, lets recap.... Day 1

So, lets go back over the shenanigans shall we... <initiating epic blog post in 3...2...1....>

HOME !

Well, that's it, scum run is over for 2013. It was fantastic, but currently we are completely shattered and require some rest. A useful blog post will occur in the morning (or afternoon) after some R&R, but for now I leave you with the final sunset on the boat home....