General
Nothing worse than dog shit?
In some respects, I’m very fortunate in where I live, although I’m in the middle of the Cheshire plain with hardly a hill for miles around, I have a load
27 March, 2007
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All March 2007 Posts
Walks
Walk Report: Gunnerside
Date: 17th Mar 2007 Location: Yorkshire Dales Distance: 12.0 miles Ascent: 2000 feet Time: 4 hrs 10 mins Weather: Starting cloudy and cool, clearing and warming as the day progressed
17 March, 2007
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Bits & Bob’s
No, thats not a punctuation error in the title of this entry, its a pun, which you may spot if you read on a bit further. My kit list is
16 March, 2007
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The Quest for the Holy Gra…. er… Rucksack
I am heartily sick of looking for a rucksack now, I am in danger of just saying “bollocks to it” and buying the next one I see. But I have
15 March, 2007
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The Stove
The stove selection process was even easier than that of the sleeping bag. I know nothing about camping stoves – nothing at all. Therefore I have no idea what to
14 March, 2007
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The Sleeping Bag selection
Selecting my sleeping bag was probably one of the easier kit selections I had to make for this backpacking equipment. It certainly had the shortest shortlist in my notebook. I
13 March, 2007
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Selecting a tent
With a target weight of 7.5Kg and a budget of £500, the key word that springs to mind is compromise. In general terms, the lighter the piece of kit, the
11 March, 2007
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Camping
I’ve always poo poo’d the idea of camping, which to me was the idea of spending a week in a tent in the middle of a muddy field full of
8 March, 2007
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Long Distance Paths
About getting fit again
I remember at the end of the C2C last May, thinking “I’ve not been this fit since I left school”. I used to run cross country for the school at
7 March, 2007
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