3 peaks challenge

In message <[email hidden]>, millt
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Hi,
Hope this is the right group to post this.
I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
I've more time.
Does anyone know of any travel agent or travel company that arranges
thsi, or would anyone in here be interested in doing it sometime over
the summer. Might be good if a few were interested & got together.
My name is Rich , I'm 40 and have a reasonable fitness level, did
Kilimanjaro last year & made it to the top.

Thanks

Rich

Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest clockwise
starting with Penyghent.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 65% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

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In message <[email hidden]>, millt
<?@?.?.invalid> writes

Quoted message said:

Hi,
Hope this is the right group to post this.
I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
I've more time.
Does anyone know of any travel agent or travel company that arranges
thsi, or would anyone in here be interested in doing it sometime over
the summer. Might be good if a few were interested & got together.
My name is Rich , I'm 40 and have a reasonable fitness level, did
Kilimanjaro last year & made it to the top.

Thanks

Rich

Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
clockwise starting with Penyghent.

You're being very cruel, Martin (-:
--
Philip Powell
Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland
to The Cheviot

Philip Powell said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Martin Richardson
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In message <[email hidden]>, millt
<?@?.?.invalid> writes

Quoted message said:

Hi,
Hope this is the right group to post this.
I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
I've more time.
Does anyone know of any travel agent or travel company that arranges
thsi, or would anyone in here be interested in doing it sometime over
the summer. Might be good if a few were interested & got together.
My name is Rich , I'm 40 and have a reasonable fitness level, did
Kilimanjaro last year & made it to the top.

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Rich

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Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
clockwise starting with Penyghent.

You're being very cruel, Martin (-:

I thought he was being entirely practical. Unless of course Rich wants
to sit in a minibus battering up and down the M6.

Those of us from Yorkshire only know of one Three Peaks :-)

Perhaps you should have pointed him at this bit of the "welcome to
urw" posting which you make each month.

< PLEASE NOTE:
Requests by new subscribers for information regarding the
National Three Peaks - Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon
-
are likely to receive a somewhat unexpected response.
Before posting any such request, please see:
<http://www.blencathra.org.uk/ukrw/n3pc.html>

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But I note that the link on that page to information at
http://www.ands.co.uk/3peaks/index.shtml is broken.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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Philip Powell said:

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In message <[email hidden]>, millt
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>Hi,
>Hope this is the right group to post this.
>I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
>I've more time.
>Does anyone know of any travel agent or travel company that arranges
>thsi, or would anyone in here be interested in doing it sometime over
>the summer. Might be good if a few were interested & got together.
>My name is Rich , I'm 40 and have a reasonable fitness level, did
>Kilimanjaro last year & made it to the top.

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>Rich

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Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
clockwise starting with Penyghent.

You're being very cruel, Martin (-:

I thought he was being entirely practical.

Actually I wasn't - I should have said anti-clockwise.

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Unless of course Rich wants
to sit in a minibus battering up and down the M6.

Those of us from Yorkshire only know of one Three Peaks :-)

Perhaps you should have pointed him at this bit of the "welcome to
urw" posting which you make each month.

< PLEASE NOTE:
Requests by new subscribers for information regarding the
National Three Peaks - Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon
-
are likely to receive a somewhat unexpected response.
Before posting any such request, please see:
<http://www.blencathra.org.uk/ukrw/n3pc.html>

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But I note that the link on that page to information at
http://www.ands.co.uk/3peaks/index.shtml is broken.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 65% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

Martin Richardson said:

In message <[email hidden]>, millt
<?@?.?.invalid> writes

Quoted message said:

Hi,
Hope this is the right group to post this.
I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
I've more time.
Does anyone know of any travel agent or travel company that arranges
thsi, or would anyone in here be interested in doing it sometime over
the summer. Might be good if a few were interested & got together.
My name is Rich , I'm 40 and have a reasonable fitness level, did
Kilimanjaro last year & made it to the top.

Thanks

Rich

Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest clockwise
starting with Penyghent.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 65% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

Granville

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Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
[anti] clockwise
starting with Penyghent.

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LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

I used to think that it was too easy to make the effort to drive to
Horton worthwhile but these days I tend to think it is too hard to
attempt. Last year I managed to stagger round taking several hours
longer than I did the last time I had done it some 20 years previously.
But since then I have done hardly any walking. :-(

--
Roger Chapman

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Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
[anti] clockwise
starting with Penyghent.

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LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

I used to think that it was too easy to make the effort to drive to
Horton worthwhile but these days I tend to think it is too hard to
attempt. Last year I managed to stagger round taking several hours
longer than I did the last time I had done it some 20 years previously.
But since then I have done hardly any walking. :-(

--
Roger Chapman

Getting past it then? I am at 57, but' I'd have no problems doing it in
less than 9 hours;-)

'cause, I'm fit & don't need all the bloody cr*p carried nowadays to
just walk:-0 No matter what the so-called experts expound you need!
Including "so-called gear testers"

He, He

Granville

Granville West said:

LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

Someone I know who went up to their waist in a particularly spectacular
bog while doing the 3 Peaks (or 2, as it turned out that day IIRC) may
wish to disagree...

But toasted tea cakes in the PYG cafe make up for a lot! ;-)

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Phil Cook said:

< PLEASE NOTE:
Requests by new subscribers for information regarding the
National Three Peaks - Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon
-
are likely to receive a somewhat unexpected response.
Before posting any such request, please see:
<http://www.blencathra.org.uk/ukrw/n3pc.html>

For the OP, other challenges that are actually more challenging for
walking (as opposed to staying awake during several hundred miles of
driving, which is the main challenge on the National 3 Peaks) might
include the Welsh 3000s, various Big Munro Days (as many as you can do
in 24 hours, Kintail's a good place for that, the Cairngorm Big 6,
Fisherfield Big 6, Skye Ridge etc.)

Tha mian thing about the 3P is most people have heard of it. But it's
not much of a *walking* challenge compared to all sorts of other things
you could do.

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

millt said:

Hi,
Hope this is the right group to post this.
I have recently split with my partner & want to do the 3 peaks now
I've more time.

No need for a travel agent, just start at Storey Arms, SN987199

David.

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Tha mian thing about the 3P is most people have heard of it.

And many are misinformed. Someone once earnestly explained to me that he
was going to climb the second highest mountain in Britain - and he
didn't mean yer Ben MacDui. I didn't bother to tell him there were 56
often snowed on mountains above the one he was going to tackle.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 65% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

Peter Clinch said:

Tha mian thing about the 3P is most people have heard of it. But it's
not much of a *walking* challenge compared to all sorts of other things
you could do.

I would concur with Pete and I am probably in a good position to offer
an opinion as I did the National 3 Peaks on 9th July last year. I
can't say there was much fun involved compared with other ways I could
have spent the 3 days travelling up to Fort William, trudging up
tourist paths, trying to kip in the mini-bus and driving home from
Llanberis.
I did it for charity - but the organisers took an extortionate chunk of
the money.

If you really want/need to do it then just organise it yourself and try
to build something personal into the trip - don't just pay your money
and follow the herds.

Judith

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> Most people start from Horton-in-Ribblesdale - I would suggest
> [anti] clockwise
> starting with Penyghent.

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LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

I used to think that it was too easy to make the effort to drive to
Horton worthwhile but these days I tend to think it is too hard to
attempt. Last year I managed to stagger round taking several hours
longer than I did the last time I had done it some 20 years previously.
But since then I have done hardly any walking. :-(

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Getting past it then? I am at 57, but' I'd have no problems doing it in
less than 9 hours;-)

I'm 62 and well past it. Every time I get anywhere near what passes for
fit as far as I am concerned my left knee stops co-operating. Until
recently I have used 15 miles and 4000 feet of ascent as the yardstick
for a reasonable days walking but I am beginning to think that is a bit
ambitious.

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'cause, I'm fit & don't need all the bloody cr*p carried nowadays to
just walk:-0 No matter what the so-called experts expound you need!
Including "so-called gear testers"

When I am not walking regularly (which has been most years in the last 2
decades) I tend to put on a bit of weight and an extra half a stone or
more round the waist is a bit of a nuisance however light the sack.

--
Roger Chapman

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Judith <[email hidden]> writes

This is not particularly aimed at you Judith or your event.

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I did it for charity - but the organisers took an extortionate chunk of
the money.

That's what I dislike about currently popular 'charity' events. The
charities are happy because they get increased income but in reality,
unless the person being sponsored covers the costs of the event / trip,
the people sponsoring the event are being ripped off unless they are
told that part of their money is paying for the event / trip.

At the extreme end of the scale are the trekking holidays that are paid
for by people's sponsor money that was supposedly for the good cause.

When I do something to raise funds for charity I pay all my costs and
those of any support I receive. That way the cause receives the full
benefit of people's generosity. I even tend to add a percentage of my
own to the sponsorship to encourage people to contribute.

--

Dominic Sexton

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Judith <[email hidden]> writes

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Peter Clinch said:

Tha mian thing about the 3P is most people have heard of it. But it's
not much of a *walking* challenge compared to all sorts of other things
you could do.

I would concur with Pete and I am probably in a good position to offer
an opinion as I did the National 3 Peaks on 9th July last year. I
can't say there was much fun involved compared with other ways I could
have spent the 3 days travelling up to Fort William, trudging up
tourist paths, trying to kip in the mini-bus and driving home from
Llanberis.
I did it for charity - but the organisers took an extortionate chunk of
the money.

If you really want/need to do it then just organise it yourself and try
to build something personal into the trip - don't just pay your money
and follow the herds.

I'm in the process of working out the logistics of a self-financed
charity walk next year - looks like around 225 miles. It links together
3 popular routes but, other than that, should be unique.

That certainly seems a much more self-satisfying than simply doing a
popular event in which a large amount of the money raised is siphoned
off to the organisers.

--
Philip Powell
Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland
to The Cheviot

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That's what I dislike about currently popular 'charity' events. The
charities are happy because they get increased income but in reality,
unless the person being sponsored covers the costs of the event / trip,
the people sponsoring the event are being ripped off unless they are
told that part of their money is paying for the event / trip.

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At the extreme end of the scale are the trekking holidays that are paid
for by people's sponsor money that was supposedly for the good cause.

That is basis for my opposition to charity events as well. That and the
fact that the charity organisers make a very good living out of other
peoples kindness.

--
Roger Chapman

Roger said:

That is basis for my opposition to charity events as well. That and the
fact that the charity organisers make a very good living out of other
peoples kindness.

Not so much opposition as just bemusement, but if I want to give money
to charity, why is some perceived hardship someone puts themself through
of significance? I have a standing order to Oxfam because I believe
they're doing good and I want to help them, not because someone's
running a marathon or whatever!

I give money to people doing charity stuff where there isn't an overhead
to an "organiser" and I think the charity is worth my support because
that's the way the game is played these days, but it does strike me as
strange...

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

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Roger wrote:

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That is basis for my opposition to charity events as well. That and the
fact that the charity organisers make a very good living out of other
peoples kindness.

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Not so much opposition as just bemusement, but if I want to give money
to charity, why is some perceived hardship someone puts themself through
of significance?

Hardship? In the 60s when charity walks became all the rage and the
unwary were tempted into 50 mile road walks there was certainly
considerable pain for some of the participants. (Pain to balance the
pain the donors felt in opening their wallets. :-)) But these days when
charity walks are often nothing more than a stroll round the park where
the per mile element has disappeared not least because it is
inconceivable that the participants couldn't finish almost the only pain
is the financial pain of the donor. There are exceptions with the long
and/or strenuous events but by and large those participants are only
there because they are engaged in an activity they find enjoyable.

As Dominic has already suggested the nadir of charity eventing is the
charity holiday where participants can get a free holiday provided they
can con family and friends for sufficient funds to pay for the holiday
plus the organisers cut.

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I have a standing order to Oxfam because I believe
they're doing good and I want to help them, not because someone's
running a marathon or whatever!

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I give money to people doing charity stuff where there isn't an overhead
to an "organiser" and I think the charity is worth my support because
that's the way the game is played these days, but it does strike me as
strange...

Some charities depend largely on volunteers but I suspect that at the
top of almost any large charity are people who make more money running
their charity that they could make working for anyone else.

--
Roger Chapman

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Granville West said:

LOL is it a challenge? Just a bloody easy walk.

Someone I know who went up to their waist in a particularly spectacular
bog

Black Dubb Moss has intimate knowledge of the lower half of me.

--
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
{Michael Pritchard}