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From Brilliant Weather = Lots of Adventures
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From Yorkshire Three Peaks
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From Three Days in Bergen
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From New year in Hawes
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From Arctic Invasion - record Red Rock temperatures!
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From Hmmmmm, Sachertorte...
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From Hunstanton
Category: Walking
Walking (mostly in the mountains).
The weather this past week has been glorious! In between working and gardening I have tried my hardest to get out and enjoy it…
On Saturday, in glorious summer sunshine, I was trekking around the 39 kilometre classic Yorkshire Three Peaks circuit with a charity group (Tiny Tickers) of 22 walkers. I’ve never done the “Y3P” as a single expedition before. Although clearly I’ve wandered around all of the segments of this route previously either on shorter walks, climbing, …
Three winter days in Bergen: mountains, museums and cake!
It seems like it has been raining enough recently to enable Noah to prepare for a perfect maiden journey. However, the weekend was set to be rain free. Hooray!
We spent the week after Christmas in Hawes, North Yorkshire with Tony and Catherine, our friends who are both runners and orienteers. Day 1 The holiday started with a 7.5 mile walk into Widdale from our cottage in Hawes. After a short time on footpaths we were beating our way through moorland tussocks to get …
Just our luck, mid-week saw all-time record low temperatures for December in Las Vegas! Tuesday it was 18°C and overnight saw Wednesday’s temperature plummet to -2°C. We’ve been ice climbing in warmer temperatures than this! :freeze:
What a lovely sunny late autumn day today was: clear, super sunny, and calm – a dingle day! It would have been a fantastic day for rock climbing on a warm south facing crag. I hope others took advantage?
Our lovely friend Dalma sent us a postcard from Vienna with a recipe for Sachertorte. I simply had to make it, but we decided that we’d have to expend a few calories before we could eat it.
North-west Norfolk is just a 90 minute drive from Rutland so on Saturday we visited the Norfolk coastline. We drove to Hunstanton and then got the local bus to Thornham and walked back along the beach. The beach was empty, except for the large numbers of birdwatchers. We asked one of them what they were …
