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Sunday, 30 January 2011

Just Like the Bradbury Effect?

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When Julia Bradbury started skipping up the Wainwrights in Wainwrights Walks, suddenly the number of people visiting the featured fells incr...
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Friday, 28 January 2011

Should Have Said…

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A week and a bit ago we got an email from Roger Smith saying that we had made our way up to places 5 & 6 on the TGO Challenge stand-by l...
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Friday, 21 January 2011

Gait Barrows Geocaches

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After a night in Kendal following Sunday’s walk, Monday morning first saw us revisiting various specific parts of Sunday’s routes, in search...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Leighton Moss, Gait Barrows, Arnside, Silverdale and Leighton Moss

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Thirty legs and three tails set out just after 10am on Sunday morning from Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve (Mick & I amongst them) to walk a...
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Monday, 17 January 2011

From Arnside Knott

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Visibility is a bit better than yesterday! Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Yikes! Gulp!

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I’ve just booked our train tickets to get us down to Lowestoft in March for the start of our Big Walk . Booked a bargain Travelodge room for...
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Tuesday, 4 January 2011

From Bleaklow

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A fantastically comfortable night’s sleep was had. In fact, the most comfortable night’s winter camping ever. The Exped Synmat got full mar...
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Monday, 3 January 2011

On Bleaklow

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“Where are we going to camp tomorrow night?” I asked Mick on Saturday evening. “Are we going away somewhere?” he asked? I replied in the...
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Index of Kent to Cape Wrath Posts

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With the planning of our East to West jaunt in full swing, it’s about time (or rather overdue) that I consolidate all of my Kent to Cape Wra...

Gear of the Year: 2010

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Everyone seems to be reviewing their favourite kit of 2010, so I thought that I’d jump on the bandwagon, except I’m just going to say a few ...
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Friday, 31 December 2010

2010: Illustrated

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Late this afternoon (just after I got home and shed my very muddy boots and nearly as muddy trousers), I realised that it is the last day of...
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Thursday, 30 December 2010

The Curse Of Being An Obsessive Planner

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From when I first started planning next year’s Big Walk (should I confess that I had a rough route plotted within five days of getting home ...
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Ankle Shaping

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(This is a ‘this is really dull but I’m going to post it anyway for my own benefit’ type of post, so you may as well move straight along to ...
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Monday, 27 December 2010

I’m Dreaming Of A…

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Christmas Day Christmas Day was the most perfect crisp, blue-skied day you could possibly ask for, made all the prettier by the snow still...
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The Next Big Walk

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Originally we had three contenders for the walking agenda for the first half of next year: Plan A was to apply if we didn’t get a place on...
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Monday, 20 December 2010

Imelda Marcos of Walking Shoes

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I just heard Mick refer to me, during a phone conversation, as being “The Mrs. Marcos of Walking Shoes”. A justifiable accusation? I had a q...
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Sunday, 19 December 2010

A Short Leg-Stretch

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Layered up as if an arctic expedition was on the agenda, we left the house this morning and tootled over to the Chase. I had doubted that ...
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