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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Not as bad as it was a month ago which is why I risked a
short stroll to take advantage of the much improved
weather on Sunday morning.
Quoted message said:I still believe that some rest would do the knee good, but
decent weather is so rare that it must be too tempting.
It has been getting lay-offs of at least a month between
trips as it is and if the really easy days such as last
Friday and Sunday are discounted only single day punishment
at a time.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:But it hasn't taken much to irritate it again. 2 pimples
on Friday afternoon, Grayrigg Forest and Swinside, about
3 miles and 1300 feet of ascent in total. And the
circuit of Newlands from Cat Bells to Hindscarth, 10
miles and 3000 feet of ascent, on Saturday. Saturdays
walk would have been a doddle as well if it hadn't been
for the weather.
Quoted message said:I don't know how badly knackered your 3 knees are, but I
can't help wondering whether spreading the walking out a
bit more might not be a good idea for you?
It is the left knee each time but that is because that leg
does more work on account of a knackered ankle on the other
limb. Last year I survived almost unscathed but this year I
am back almost to square one (knackered knee and unfit), as
I was after Expedition (No?) to South Wales where I was
abandoned to my fate (:-)) when the rest of the party
failed to follow the route plan and my knee decided it had
had enough at the far extremity of a horseshoe walk over
Waun Fach. The Bannisdale Horseshoe (my first walk this
year) might be the hardest walk in the Outlying Fells but
it wasn't anywhere near as tough as the Waun Fach
horseshoe. What characterised both walks and, indeed many
of the previous instances of knee non cooperation, was a
stiff cold wind.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Sometimes heavy rain in the morning and a wind so strong
over Dale Head that I had great difficulty even keeping
to my feet, let alone moving. Curiously my Summit logged
5900 feet of ascent on the 3000 foot circuit. Perhaps it
struggled with the wind as much as I did.
Quoted message said:Strong wind can cause pressure variations that will fool
even a really good altimeter. Cyclists have reported the
same thing affecting their altimeters on days in the alps
(the wind there being generated on the descent).
You don't like Garmin either?
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:The Lake District is clearly suffering from
subsidence. AW couldn't possibly have gotten it wrong.
AW probably got it wrong with several summits. ISTR a
discussion here some time back about his dubious choice
of top (was it Whinlatter that set the ball rolling?)
but to be fair the OS was probably to blame in most
cases.
Quoted message said:What I wrote was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. ISTR some
discussion years ago whether he was right about Wansfell
(IIRR he disagreed with the OS there). Does anyone recall
the group verdict?
I don't recall that discussion (but with a memory like mine
that is only to be expected) but looking at the Great Mans
original work he was disparaging those who thought Wansfell
Pike was the summit of Wansfell. I have to admit I was among
that number having counted Wansfell as my first Wainwright
(and pre Wainwright at that) when it turned out to be close
to my last. I am not sure AW go it right. Even now the OS
has 'Wansfell' in type only marginally larger than the
adjacent summit marking of 'Wansfell Pike' while at the
higher end of the ridge the only attribution anywhere near
the summit is 'Baystones' in even smaller type.
On the latest 1:25000 map the name 'Idle Hill' on the slope
to the North should have a better claim to the summit than
the name 'Wansfell' which is almost exactly twice the
distance away. However on the earlier edition 'Wansfell' is
in larger type.
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Roger Chapman so far this year 27 summits New - 16 (Marilyns
4, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 11) Repeats - 11( Marilyns 2,
Sweats 6, Wainwrights 11) Knackered knee - 3 times
