Next weekend......

Phil Cook said:

Paul Saunders said:

214Fells wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

So at the moment the numbers look decidedly thin....

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Me (plus son) - definite
Judith - relatively definite
Martin - no
Roger - no
Jhimmy - dependent on work
Phil - ?

No, sorry, work is unforgiving of asking for days off on Saturdays :-(
Of course I could well end up getting some other days off soon.

Quoted message said:

Sounds like a typical expedition these days. A lot of interest initially, a
lot of people dropping out at the end. Sounds like it'll end up as just a
walk with a few mates.

That's the way it's going these days. Judith and I had an expedition
up High Holborn and over the viaduct to watch a footie match the other
night. We conversed on many subjects including the lack of new blood
in Usenet. I think newsgroups are a dying form of communication.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.

Just back from Costa-del-Wasdale......

Really great to meet Judith & Jhimmy again.

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

Cheers David.
--
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:34:09 -0700, 214Fells <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just back from Costa-del-Wasdale......

Really great to meet Judith & Jhimmy again.

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

I'm not allowed to write the Wasdale TR until I've done my TGO
Challenge one!

Judith

In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:34:09 -0700, 214Fells <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just back from Costa-del-Wasdale......

Really great to meet Judith & Jhimmy again.

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

I'm not allowed to write the Wasdale TR until I've done my TGO
Challenge one!

Nah, do the easy one first!

--

Dominic Sexton

"214Fells" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Phil Cook said:

Paul Saunders said:

214Fells wrote:

Quoted message said:

> So at the moment the numbers look decidedly thin....

Quoted message said:

> Me (plus son) - definite
> Judith - relatively definite
> Martin - no
> Roger - no
> Jhimmy - dependent on work
> Phil - ?

No, sorry, work is unforgiving of asking for days off on Saturdays :-(
Of course I could well end up getting some other days off soon.

Quoted message said:

Sounds like a typical expedition these days. A lot of interest
initially, a
lot of people dropping out at the end. Sounds like it'll end up as just
a
walk with a few mates.

That's the way it's going these days. Judith and I had an expedition
up High Holborn and over the viaduct to watch a footie match the other
night. We conversed on many subjects including the lack of new blood
in Usenet. I think newsgroups are a dying form of communication.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.

Just back from Costa-del-Wasdale......

Really great to meet Judith & Jhimmy again.

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

Cheers David.
--
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

he's just my short one.

Arrived late on Friday night. First tent I saw was a "Roger" orange Vango
tent, but alas it wasn't him. After a quick chat to Judith, David and Daniel
I went instantly to sleep.

Saturday's weather started glorious, but later a bit cloudy. I did Great
Gable and hated the screes slopes I needed to get to the Needle. DONT
ask....but I failed to find the Needle! I now know where it is so I might
return - doh. Is this the worst scree slopes in the Lakes?

Sunday was hot, sweaty and sunny. Harter fell and Hard knott was on my
agenda. I completed my Wainwrights with a final finish on Hard Knott -
which I had all to myself. I wished I had finished on Harter Fell as it had
a final "rock climb" to reach the true summit.

Drove home - over hard Knott and Wrynose passes - knackered.

Cheers

Jhimmy

The message <[email hidden]>
from "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

First tent I saw was a "Roger" orange Vango
tent, but alas it wasn't him.

Actually a Blacks Mountain Tent plus flysheet, a much superior product,
but thanks for those kind words. I was otherwise engaged in South Wales.

--
Roger Chapman
Nearest Marilyn still to be visited - Great Orme.
89 miles as the crow flies,
considerably more as the walker drives.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:27 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

Cheers David.
--
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

he's just my short one.

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

Arrived at the campsite just after 8pm and the midgies were just
starting to bite. (I have just reapplied some soothing Witch Hazel
gel to various parts of my body.)

I couldn't find David and Daniel (who were in the pub!) so I put up my
tent and let them find me later. I considered their intention to do
Yewbarrow in the morning.

On Saturday morning, Jhimmy described Yewbarrow to me and I decided to
go somewhere else!

I walked up the Black Sail pass to the Youth Hostel where I had a chat
with various hostellers and walkers, including a couple of Canadians
doing the Coast to Coast. It was a very hot morning and I made every
effort to drink water regularly. There is a notice in the Youth
Hostel saying that the water comes from a beck and it's up to you
whether you regard it as drinkable; I drank a pint or so.

From Black Sail YH I headed towards Windy Gap then headed due West
with the intention of going down Kirk Fell. However, I'd not
appreciated that I'd have to go UP again first, so I actually followed
a path to the East of Kirk Fell down to Wasdale Head via Burnthwaite.

I was quite tired when I got back to the camp site but a shower
livened me up a bit and a walked to the pub as I reckoned that's where
the others would be. I had two very nice pints of beer which went
straight to my head, and my legs, and made for an entertaining walk
back to the tent. Thankfully, on this final journey I remembered to
take the stile onto the path back to the campsite rather than heading
up towards Scafell like I'd done earlier in the day!

I drank another couple of cups of water before going to bed (at around
10:30pm) but woke up at 2am with an awful headache and feeling not
very well at all. I drank some more water and, well, let's just say I
was "ill". Usually I could manage two pints of ale (and I had eaten
before going to the pub) but I reckon I was dehydrated and should have
stayed off the booze.

I had already decided to have a lie-in on the Sunday, and my disturbed
sleep confirmed the decision. I had a leisurely breakfast and
listened to the Archers Omnibus before packing up my tent. I watched
a robin inspecting the patch of grass where the tent had been. He or
she found a HUGE worm which it folded up and flew away with. There
was also a family of thrushes including a large, greedy baby running
its parents ragged with demands for breakfast.

I drove back to the M6 via Broughton in Furness where I had double egg
and chips and a pot of tea and bumped into one of the people I'd
spoken to at Black Sail YH.

This weekend I'm staying in Keswick on a Hen Weekend and will probably
organise a walk for the more adventurous of my friends. I hope I
don't get "dehydrated" (!) again.

Judith

Judith said:

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

The first time I drove over Hardknott it was at night in pouring rain
- real "ford every mountain, climb every stream" weather.

Quoted message said:

I was quite tired when I got back to the camp site but a shower
livened me up a bit and a walked to the pub as I reckoned that's where
the others would be. I had two very nice pints of beer which went
straight to my head...

Hmmm.

Quoted message said:

This weekend I'm staying in Keswick on a Hen Weekend and will probably
organise a walk for the more adventurous of my friends. I hope I
don't get "dehydrated" (!) again.

Have fun, do let us know about the Jennings tour ;-)
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

Phil Cook said:

Quoted message said:

This weekend I'm staying in Keswick on a Hen Weekend and will probably
organise a walk for the more adventurous of my friends. I hope I
don't get "dehydrated" (!) again.

Have fun, do let us know about the Jennings tour ;-)

I've checked the bus timetable to Cockermouth, and the brewery tour
times, but I also have the Keswick Brewery as contingency!

Judith

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Quoted message said:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:27 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

Cheers David.
--
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

he's just my short one.

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

Yeh, nice hairpins. Big fun if a car is coming towards you.
Do your breaks still smoke ?

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

Theo said:

"Judith" <[email hidden]> schreef in bericht
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:27 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

> Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?
>
> Cheers David.
> --
> http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

he's just my short one.

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

Yeh, nice hairpins. Big fun if a car is coming towards you.

At the bottom I saw a car coming down and stopped to let it come all
the way down, it's rather difficult to see passing places when your
lights are pointing away from the road.

Quoted message said:

Do your breaks still smoke ?

If I smoked I'd have to take my breaks outside from the first of next
month. The only downside of this smoking ban is going to be folk sat
outside puffing away ruining all that fresh air. :-(

Nick made a bit of a smoke screen coming down Kirkstone Pass on the
way to the previous urw Lakes meet, I don't think he had a full grasp
of the theory of engine braking. Judith's old car "Manuel" would have
had a double advantage on Hardknott; a diesel engine and low range if
needed, but you wouldn't have needed low range unless he had been full
of bags of concrete mix. Oh, and I think the high viewpoint might have
helped too.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

Quoted message said:

Nick made a bit of a smoke screen coming down Kirkstone Pass on the
way to the previous urw Lakes meet, I don't think he had a full grasp
of the theory of engine braking. Judith's old car "Manuel" would have
had a double advantage on Hardknott; a diesel engine and low range if
needed, but you wouldn't have needed low range unless he had been full
of bags of concrete mix. Oh, and I think the high viewpoint might have
helped too.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

There must have been a Mini car convention as there was loads of old and new
Minis driving westward over the Wrynose and Hardknot passes on sunday.
Unfortunetly, one older Mini had broken down half way up Hardknott pass on
the eastern side.

David apparently left a nice big slab of rubber on Hard Knott road, I think
I saw it ;-)

Jhimmy

In message <[email hidden]>, Theo
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

"Judith" <[email hidden]> schreef in bericht
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:27 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

> Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?
>
> Cheers David.
> --
> http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

he's just my short one.

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

Yeh, nice hairpins. Big fun if a car is coming towards you.
Do your breaks still smoke ?

On the Hard Knott I once blew out an engine in a little Renault 5 that
had only been fitted the previous week - I seem to recall a huge
argument about whether the warranty covered it or not.

Trying to take the bends at 40+ mph is fun.
--
Martin Richardson
663/1554 Marilyns - aiming for 777 71/118 New Donalds - only 40% to go
88/211 Irish Hewitts - 123, it's easy 42/220 Corbetts - only 81% to go

The message <[email hidden]>
from Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

On the Hard Knott I once blew out an engine in a little Renault 5 that
had only been fitted the previous week - I seem to recall a huge
argument about whether the warranty covered it or not.

Back in 1967 on one day I drove both ways over Hardknott and Wrynose
about 6 times in my Ford Anglia (105E for those few who even know one
Anglia from another).

Quoted message said:

Trying to take the bends at 40+ mph is fun.

I think you slipped a surplus '0' in there by mistake. :-)

--
Roger Chapman
Nearest Marilyn still to be visited - Great Orme.
89 miles as the crow flies,
considerably more as the walker drives.

Martin Richardson said:

On the Hard Knott I once blew out an engine in a little Renault 5 that
had only been fitted the previous week - I seem to recall a huge
argument about whether the warranty covered it or not.

Trying to take the bends at 40+ mph is fun.

Back in the days of the Motoring News Championship, they were used as
competitive sections. Yikes! Dunno if they still are. Actually the
"straight" bit near Cockley Beck is probably the nastiest. It encourages
a bit of heavy right foot after the wiggly bits but turns out to be not
exactly straight and has a few "car tripping" rocks sticking out.

Roy.

Roger said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

On the Hard Knott I once blew out an engine in a little Renault 5 that
had only been fitted the previous week - I seem to recall a huge
argument about whether the warranty covered it or not.

Back in 1967 on one day I drove both ways over Hardknott and Wrynose
about 6 times in my Ford Anglia (105E for those few who even know one
Anglia from another).

Quoted message said:

Trying to take the bends at 40+ mph is fun.

I think you slipped a surplus '0' in there by mistake. :-)

Not like this mistake though :-)

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/temp/hardknott.jpg

Aparently the driver had got lost and asked somebody in a filling
station the way to Windermere.

Phil Cook said...

Quoted message said:

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/temp/hardknott.jpg

Aparently the driver had got lost and asked somebody in a filling
station the way to Windermere.

Oh my ears and whiskers! I guess the bod in the filling station must've
been a bit bored that day...

Did you scan that yourself or can it be found elsewhere on the 'net?
Failing that, would you object if attention were drawn to your website
in the shed?

--
Fran
To email me see 'from' in headers; use your net know-how to find the
domain, and put my real name in front thereof.

Fran said:

Phil Cook said...

Quoted message said:

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/temp/hardknott.jpg

Aparently the driver had got lost and asked somebody in a filling
station the way to Windermere.

Oh my ears and whiskers! I guess the bod in the filling station must've
been a bit bored that day...

Driver must have been a bit dim - plenty of signs.
I live by a bridge that's posted at 11'3" - we get at least one dimlow a
week having to turn in the close.

--
Peter.
If you can do it today, you didn't put off enough yesterday.

Fran said:

Phil Cook said...

Quoted message said:

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/temp/hardknott.jpg

Aparently the driver had got lost and asked somebody in a filling
station the way to Windermere.

Oh my ears and whiskers! I guess the bod in the filling station must've
been a bit bored that day...

More a case of not realising that the guy asking directions and the
rig parked in the street were conected.

Actually it might not have been a filling station.

Quoted message said:

Did you scan that yourself or can it be found elsewhere on the 'net?
Failing that, would you object if attention were drawn to your website
in the shed?

It's a scan by one of the other folk in urw, Dave Newton. This is the
thread where I asked him to put it up on the web:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.walking/browse_frm/thread/36ce6fca11563c17/

It seems you were amazed then as well :-O

I'll leave it there for a while...
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

Phil Cook said...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Did you scan that yourself or can it be found elsewhere on the 'net?
Failing that, would you object if attention were drawn to your website
in the shed?

It's a scan by one of the other folk in urw, Dave Newton. This is the
thread where I asked him to put it up on the web:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.walking/browse_frm/thread/36ce6fca11563c17/

It seems you were amazed then as well :-O

I'll leave it there for a while...

Excellent :-)

I once tried to drive a minibus up the pass (don't ask me which one; I
think it was Hardknott BICBW 'cos I can't remember now which direction
we were going in). Reversing back down was 'fun' when I realised that
with that much traffic around it was going to be stop start stop all the
way. The problem was that I was physically incapable of operating the
handbrake successfully, so would be unable to rely on it either
ascending or descending.

A later adaptation was an extension to the lever, giving more, er,
leverage. It was very successful and I was finally able to stop the bus
on a hill where previously I'd not dared.

--
Fran
To email me see 'from' in headers; use your net know-how to find the
domain, and put my real name in front thereof.

Judith said:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:30:27 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Report to follow or should I say multiple reports to follow....?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Cheers David.
--
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk

Quoted message said:

he's just my short one.

And a quick one from me:

Drove the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes for the first time on the way
to Wasdale. Yikes! I went home a different way.

Arrived at the campsite just after 8pm and the midgies were just
starting to bite. (I have just reapplied some soothing Witch Hazel
gel to various parts of my body.)

I couldn't find David and Daniel (who were in the pub!) so I put up my
tent and let them find me later. I considered their intention to do
Yewbarrow in the morning.

On Saturday morning, Jhimmy described Yewbarrow to me and I decided to
go somewhere else!

I walked up the Black Sail pass to the Youth Hostel where I had a chat
with various hostellers and walkers, including a couple of Canadians
doing the Coast to Coast. It was a very hot morning and I made every
effort to drink water regularly. There is a notice in the Youth
Hostel saying that the water comes from a beck and it's up to you
whether you regard it as drinkable; I drank a pint or so.

From Black Sail YH I headed towards Windy Gap then headed due West
with the intention of going down Kirk Fell. However, I'd not
appreciated that I'd have to go UP again first, so I actually followed
a path to the East of Kirk Fell down to Wasdale Head via Burnthwaite.

I was quite tired when I got back to the camp site but a shower
livened me up a bit and a walked to the pub as I reckoned that's where
the others would be. I had two very nice pints of beer which went
straight to my head, and my legs, and made for an entertaining walk
back to the tent. Thankfully, on this final journey I remembered to
take the stile onto the path back to the campsite rather than heading
up towards Scafell like I'd done earlier in the day!

I drank another couple of cups of water before going to bed (at around
10:30pm) but woke up at 2am with an awful headache and feeling not
very well at all. I drank some more water and, well, let's just say I
was "ill". Usually I could manage two pints of ale (and I had eaten
before going to the pub) but I reckon I was dehydrated and should have
stayed off the booze.

I had already decided to have a lie-in on the Sunday, and my disturbed
sleep confirmed the decision. I had a leisurely breakfast and
listened to the Archers Omnibus before packing up my tent. I watched
a robin inspecting the patch of grass where the tent had been. He or
she found a HUGE worm which it folded up and flew away with. There
was also a family of thrushes including a large, greedy baby running
its parents ragged with demands for breakfast.

I drove back to the M6 via Broughton in Furness where I had double egg
and chips and a pot of tea and bumped into one of the people I'd
spoken to at Black Sail YH.

This weekend I'm staying in Keswick on a Hen Weekend and will probably
organise a walk for the more adventurous of my friends. I hope I
don't get "dehydrated" (!) again.

Judith

A picture is worth a thousand words....

Most of you most be on broadband so report @ http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk/wasdalew.html

Basically, four walks, in excess of 28 miles and 10,000ft ascent. 9
new Wainwrights for me, 11 new Wainwrights for Daniel.

David
--
Last hill - Moel Llyfnant
http://www.fenrunfellwalk.co.uk