Yesterdays walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club was a good test for our foul weather gear, mine failed abysmally 
We 11 started from St Mary’s Church car park at Rougham, in very wet and windy conditions, so it was heads down for the first 9 miles to Bradfield St Clare and a spot of lunch in the shelter of the church porch, followed by a drink at the Fox & Hounds in Bradfield St. George. The afternoon cleared up a little so we started to dry out.
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| From Rougham Walk |
Very disappointing for me in that the left boot of my brand new Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots sprang a leak. So it’s back to Open Air with them today! My RAB Bergen jacket (QWA-05-RDB) was as useless as ever with little streams inside the arms and the pockets filling with water. It’s time has now come – I will return it to RAB. A quick survey of the other 10 people in our party showed the Karrimor & Berghaus as highly effective, the Paramo did OK too but they are really heavy to lug around on extended walks.
Here is the walk and photographs:-
Rougham circular walk
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Update 021109 – Open Air agree boots are faulty , should have new pair by Friday 
very hardy people us walkers, not put off by the rain at all……. and lets face it what else would you do on such a wet and windy day
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very hardy people us walkers, not put off by the rain at all……. and lets face it what else would you do on such a wet and windy day
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