From A New Hobby
From Chamonix Dinosaurs
From L'Enclume, Les Fiz
From Budapest Marathon
From Five Peaks in Four Days in the Monta Rosa Group
From Autumn Sunshine
From Rab Mountain Marathon 2012
From Down to the Sea

Month: October 2012

A New Hobby

Friday, 19th October 2012

Terry has long fancied learning to fly, so has embarked on microlight training.

Chamonix Dinosaurs

Friday, 19th October 2012

Who’d have though there were dinosaurs in Chamonix!

L’Enclume, Les Fiz

Sunday, 14th October 2012

This weekend we took advantage of some reasonably priced flights and took a trip to Chamonix.

Budapest Marathon

Wednesday, 10th October 2012

The Budapest Marathon is very popular as it has a beautiful route along both banks of the Danube and across several of the beautiful bridges.

Five Peaks in Four Days in the Monta Rosa Group

Wednesday, 10th October 2012

We spent four wonderful days with climbing in the Monte Rosa group. We set out with three of my climbing partners and our goal was to bag the most possible peaks. We departed from Staffal and since the lifts don’t operate any more we had to climb all the 12km and 1800m altitude up to …

Autumn Sunshine

Monday, 8th October 2012

Despite the wonderful autumn sunshine it was easy to tell that the weather has consisted of pretty much endless rain for the past several months - the cracks of the main wall of Trowbarrow Quarry were running with water!

Rab Mountain Marathon 2012

Sunday, 7th October 2012

This year the Rab Mountain Marathon started from Wooler in Northumberland. This event is ‘score’ format, meaning that you have 6 hours on day 1 and 5 hours on day 2 to locate as many controls as possible. The controls are worth varying numbers of points, and the largest point count wins, so tactics and …