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Sunday, 29 April 2007

Paramo Azuma Vent Trousers

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Last weekend, whilst out enduring my solo 28 miler, I listened to Andy Howell's ( www.andyhowell.info/trekblog ) series of podcasts ( ht...
Sunday, 22 April 2007

A Solo Training Walk

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After yesterday’s half mile stroll along Ogden Water with his mother, Husband decided that his knee was not well enough to join me on our 30...

A Quick Dash Up A Small Hill

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Acknowledging that hills have been woefully lacking in our Keswick to Barrow training, when I found myself in Yorkshire visiting Ma & Pa...
Sunday, 15 April 2007

The Canal on Our Left

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Last weekend we took a 22 mile linear training walk. The plan for today had been 25 miles, but when I came to measure a route last night the...

Time for a Lengthy Update

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I’ve been quiet of late as I’ve been trying to put together my full write-ups of my last three walks (I’ve no doubt got lots of relatives st...
Sunday, 25 March 2007

A Short Walk, Then a Shorter One

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Earlier in the week, Husband expressed a desire to up the distance of our training walk this weekend to 25 or so miles. I was thinking more ...
Saturday, 24 March 2007

No-News Round-Up

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There was nothing to report from an outdoorsy point of view last weekend, which was spent at CenterParcs. Despite missing our weekly trainin...
Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Colour Co-ordination

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I am not a follower of fashion. Neither would I class myself as a frump, but I’m far too tight to buy clothes that are going to be dated wit...
Monday, 12 March 2007

A New Toy!

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I ordered a Steripen from a shop in the USA just over a week ago. On Friday I got home to find a Royal Mail card on the doorstep. Knowing th...
Sunday, 11 March 2007

Warm AND Sunny!

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Yesterday I spent most of the day laying a laminate floor for the girlfriend of elder step-son (hadn’t anticipated the flooring exercise, so...
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Sunday, 4 March 2007

18 Muddy Miles

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An 18.5 mile walk around the local area today, starting off across fields, then resorting to lanes in order to get ourselves onto the tow pa...
Saturday, 3 March 2007

Gear-fest

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We have an entire spare bedroom of backpacking and camping stuff. Strictly speaking, there is nothing that we don’t have that we need. But, ...

Skiddaw

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After a mud-fest at Keswick C&CC Site last night, we took a quick jaunt up Skiddaw this morning. The first time I’ve been up there in ab...
Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Fit to Walk Keswick to Barrow?

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Keswick to Barrow The Keswick to Barrow Walk is an annual event that will be held for the 41st time this year. It’s quite simple; you walk (...
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Maps

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Groan. Looking at my scanned maps this morning, I realised that I don’t have the full set for the Cumbria Way. When I scanned these a couple...
Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Cumbria Way, Here We Come!

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Yeah! After a bit of a faff with Husband trying to arrange some leave from work, train tickets are now booked for the end of March. We’re of...
Sunday, 25 February 2007

The Unexpected Muddy Speed Walk

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At the beginning of last week the plan for this weekend had been to pop up to the Lake District for a small spot of walking and a large spot...
Thursday, 22 February 2007

Am I sufficiently technologically advanced to do this?

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Back in the days of computers that had green screens, when all I was expected to do was to type letters, I used to consider myself to be rea...