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Friday, 28 November 2008

How Many Tents?

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Until yesterday our tent collection comprised: - Wendy Warmlite* the Stephenson’s Warmlite 2R (1.3kg) - Vera Voyager*, the Terra Nova Voyage...
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Monday, 24 November 2008

Walking Across Scotland – on paper – in a warm room

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Yesterday, with Scottish Hill Tracks sitting on one side of me and a Munro guide on the other, I cursored back and forth up and down trying ...
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Sunday, 23 November 2008

Sunny and Warm

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That's El Teide, the centre point of Tenerife, standing at just over 3700m. We didn't climb it during our sojourn in Tenerife last w...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008

A Nervous Few Hours

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It was a nervous few hours. There was no good reason for the nerves. After all, ducks and geese live in water, so there was no logical reaso...
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English Coast to Coast - The Photos

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As promised, here's the slide-show thingy that I've put together of the photos from our Coast to Coast walk in September this year:
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

LEJOG Kit Review Part 2

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I said that I was going to split the LEJOG Kit Review into three parts. I changed my mind. Here's the second and rather long final part:...
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Saturday, 8 November 2008

LEJOG Kit Review

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It's now four months (and a day) since we reached John O'Groats. It must be at least three months since I wrote a brief review of ea...
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Friday, 7 November 2008

West Highland Way - The Photos

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Here's a little photo-slideshow-video-clip thing with our photos from the West Highland Way trip, together with a couple of little movie...
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008

From Holmfield Halifax to Hebden Bridge

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Number of killer dogs: 3 (fortunately all restrained, but they definitely wanted to sink their teeth in)   I had two options as to how...
Saturday, 1 November 2008

"Paramo is coming to your area!"

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That was the claim made by the flyer that dropped through our letterbox this morning. Upon further reading, it seems that it is true. Just a...
Friday, 31 October 2008

A Run, A Hill, Some Maps (in a Random Thoughts sort of way)

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A Shuffle In The Village On Wednesday morning this week, I went for a short jogette. That may not seem like a newsworthy announcement, excep...

The Washed Out OMM

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This time I'm referring to the Original Mountain Marathon event - not to be confused with me getting wet OMM backpack that I was talking...
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Thursday, 30 October 2008

Stop Press: First Look at BPL.co.uk's New Stove

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There have been whispers about this new stove for a while, and quite rightly too as the spec seems to be unique – and very versatile. This ...
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A Shiny New Backpack

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During our trip to the Lakes at the end of August I had to conclude that my Osprey Aura 35 was not miraculously going to become comfortable....
Tuesday, 28 October 2008

WHW: The Postmortem

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When we decided, last Thursday, to abort our walk up the WHW, I didn’t really give any reason for so doing. The post I made at the time refe...
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Sunday, 26 October 2008

TGO Challenge - We're In!

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We have tonight attended the TGOC Reunion Dinner in Fort William (I'll gloss over the fact that it's a reunion and that we've no...
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Thursday, 23 October 2008

A Bit Wild

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I'm glad I'm not out walking in this. We're pitched at Glen Nevis on the least water-logged ground that we could find. Poking a ...
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Day 6 - The End

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23 October Distance: 0 (on foot); 21 (by coach) When we pitched the tent last night we did it with due regard to the levels of the rivers ar...
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Day 5 - Tyndrum to Kingshouse

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22 October Distance: 19 miles Weather: morning: sunshine, showers and rainbows; afternoon: rain With the rain hammering on the windows of th...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Side Trip - Ben Lui (nearly)

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I was trying to write a proper account of today's rather interesting outing, but I can't do chatting and coherent writing at the sam...
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