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Just a quick write up of a micro-adventure from a couple of weeks back. My mate and I had been looking to fit another trip in whilst the weather was good and I'd long had my eye on the Chilterns. I'm a regular traveller down the M40 back to Oxford and love when you drop down through the big cut-out just past Stokenchurch and get the view over the Aylesbury Plain, so fancied staying somewhere up on that ridge.
We chose a Thursday night that worked for us both and put it in the diary. Luckily, the weather was stunning, we both got out of work a bit early and were on a train to High Wycombe at 4.30. On the bikes at 5 we had a nice ~15 miles mostly uphill out of town and into the Chilterns. Some lovely lanes took us to Stokenchurch where we stopped for a pint then picked up fish and chips. Another 2 miles and we were in a little nature reserve that looked like it had an easy path out to the ridge to get the view over the plain for the sunset and I hoped would have some good spots for a discrete bivvy. We later learnt that the car-park for this reserve is a notorious dogging spot in the area and whilst there were some potentially fruity types in cars when we arrived we weren't troubled on our bit of the hill!
We took our bikes carefully up the path to the reserve itself and found a stunning spot to sit and eat fish and chips overlooking the sun setting across the Aylesbury/Oxfordshire plain. Absolutely stunning. After a quick scout around the area we settled on the shelter of a big old beech tree which hid us from any potential dog walkers/doggers and settled down with a little fire and some lovely single malt. Asleep by 11, up at 6 for a cup of tea from the trangia and a look at the sunrise before heading off and picking up the Oxford Tube bus from Lewknor Turn at 7am. I was back at my desk by 9am smelling slightly of wood-smoke!
Really pleased with my alpkit numo and hunka, seriously comfortable night's sleep.
Some pictures, excuse the hisptergram editing, my friend took better pics this time...