So, once again, I managed to miss the window of opportunity for calling the chap who's running the hike. I considered calling at 18:19, but thought he'd likely be eating dinner, so I put the hiking schedule down in front of my workstation and promptly forgot it until 21:15.

Won't be able to call tomorrow (I'm off to Mark's place to play Red Alert II), so will have to try to catch him on Friday (the day before going hiking). To add insult to injury ;) , the hike group meets at 08:00, and does so an hour's trip from here! Yes, 8 in the morning, just when decent people are heading to bed!