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Saturday, 16 June 2007

Anquet Maps - Quirky Thing!

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Last year I bought the Anquet version of the OS mapping of Great Britain. Having ummed and arrrred over whether the £125 price tag was worth...
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Thursday, 14 June 2007

LEJOG Planning - How Far South?!

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Just looked at the map again and realised that not only does the Langdon Beck to Dufton stage head south west, but it ends the day a whole 3...

LEJOG Planning - I'm Going the Wrong Way!

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As part of my continued LEJOG route planning, I've just plotted the section on the Pennine Way between Langdon Beck and Dufton. It just ...
Monday, 11 June 2007

Inov8 Terrocs - Thoughts So Far

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After our two day trip in the Rhinogau a couple of weeks ago, I said that I would talk about my Inov8 Terrocs separately. It's about tim...
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Monday, 4 June 2007

Phew! Hot Water Again.

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Not outdoors related, but: Today I gave Husband the task of visiting a local electrical merchant in his lunchbreak. Upon asking for the spec...
Sunday, 3 June 2007

The Good and the Bad of the Weekend

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No walking this weekend. I felt the need to stay at home and do some useful things, like point around the top of the chimney where water’s b...
Monday, 28 May 2007

A Couple of Days in the Rhinogau - Day 2

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Saturday night was, per the forecast, wet and windy. Also as forecast, the wind swung around from the east to the west, which was a bit unfo...

A Couple of Days in the Rhinogs - Day 1

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By Friday afternoon I had finally got the Psion and the computer reliably talking to each other and Husband had made a route choice for Satu...
Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Damned Technology

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Today I finally got my hands on a USB to Serial Port adapter. The supplier that I ordered it from 2 days ago (after office hours) was good t...
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007

Random Thoughts: Dry Food, A Backpack, A Trip and A Computer

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The dehydrator was on overnight, working on some fruit (we seemed to have a surfeit of bananas and mangoes, plus some pineapple that needed ...
Friday, 18 May 2007

Catch-up Time

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Time for a bit of a catch up, as I seem to have been a bit slack on updating lately: 29 April 2007 I had declared our training for the Keswi...
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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...