Category Archives: Mountains

The March Mountain trip: Wasdale

3 Mar Filed under Google Earth, Mountains. 10 Comments.

For the second year running, the annual trip to the hills organised by my cousin Adrian was based in Wasdale Head. Some pretty dull weather only lifted by the usual good craic that goes on between ten stout fellows. A wonderful time, as usual, peppered … Read More →

Hill Reps

The jagged teeth of hill reps

29 Nov Filed under Mountains, Sport. 2 Comments.

It may feel like utter death on toast when you’re doing it, and you swear you’l never do it again through the blood you’re coughing up each time you do it, but having a GPS with a heart rate monitor makes hill reps something interesting … Read More →

Grizedale Mountainbike Challenge 2007

16 Sep Filed under Google Earth, Mountains, Sport. 1 Comment.

Wow! I’d forgotten how good that felt. Today was my first Mountain Bike event since… erm.. about 1994. I seem to have got so caught up in other things that use up my time (a lot of which is cycling of one sort or another) … Read More →

2007 Fred Whitton Challenge

13 May Filed under Google Earth, Mountains, Sport. 2 Comments.

I rode the Fred Whitton Challenge again today. It’s by far he hardest day out I can imagine on a bike. It’s basically a route around the Lake District’s road passes, Kirkstone – Honister – Newlands – Whinlatter – Hard Knott and Wrynose. The ridiculous … Read More →

Belmont Winter Hill fell race 2007

6 May Filed under Blog, Google Earth, Mountains, Sport. 3 Comments.

Belmont Winter Hill race Results now here (PDF) courtesy of Dave Bateson. I had a great race with less than 24 hours notice it was actually happening (yep – dozy) at Belmont yesterday. An idyllic summer village fête and about 120 runners all togged up … Read More →

Kinder Downfall fell race 1 April 2007

1 Apr Filed under Blog, Google Earth, Mountains, Sport. 2 Comments.

My first fell race since Whittle Pike some eight months ago after a bit of a break from competitive running trying to get my back injury better. I was really very chuffed to finish 11th out of a field of about 250. I was 25th … Read More →

Spring: fresh air.

26 Mar Filed under Blog, Google Earth, Mountains. No comments.

Really feels like spring’s on its way now. It’s a warm, sunny Monday, the clocks have finally jumped into summertime, and people are starting to smile again. I had renewed vigour this weekend after a slight sick bug last week, and had a tough but … Read More →

Howgills, some Sedbergh reminiscing, and an overdue dose of snow

22 Mar Filed under Blog, Google Earth, Mountains. No comments.

I had a great day out with some soon to be ex-colleagues (and a currently ex colleague) in the Howgills the other day, taking in a 9.5 mile walk in the beautiful Howgill Fells. It enabled me to (fairly) quietly reminisce about my two years … Read More →

Mind blown by GPS data

15 Mar Filed under Google Earth, Mountains, Tech. 1 Comment.

A few weeks ago, I bought a Garmin Forerunner 201, on a whim, from my friend Matthew. When I bought it, it was very much an experiment to see whether I’d get on with it and get enough out of it. It comes with some … Read More →

Jeans Reunited?

5 Mar Filed under Blog, Humour, Mountains. 6 Comments.

Okay. Long story that I won’t go into here, but if you, or anyone you know, accidentally left a pair of Levis 501s around the altitude of 690 metres within a few hundred metres of Scafell, I saw them and kindly picked them up on … Read More →