Comments on: Season greetings

By: PhilW

PhilW — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:05:21 +0000

Greetings to you too Geoff. My thoughts are similar to Marcus. Though your mileage may have not been as good as hoped I still enjoyed reading your reports. After thinking of wild camping for some time I finally got out there in 2008, with my daughter. The weather was far from ideal, but she enjoyed it - so did I and she wants to do more in 2009! So thanks for providing the inspiration.

PS, had great trouble posting this over the last couple of days - just didn’t appear. Something changed??

By: Geoff C

Geoff C — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:48:15 +0000

Martin,
Very kind of you, and a merry Xmas, happy new year and good walking to you.

Bip,
After the February trips, we prophetically said '...maybe that was the summer...' - spot on.
It's just as well we have indoor interests to fall back on!.

By: Bip

Bip — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:53:27 +0000

Yes, abysmal indeed after a preceeding year just as bad. It does me psychological damage - really - the endless, dreary, wet, grey, grey, GREY.

I too had a fabulous February trip in the Lakes but that was it for the entire goddamn year. Tried 6 days in Borrowdale in July and got about 5 hours of sunshine on a good day, admittedly, but the rest was cloud and rain.

This country is like a toilet - I hate it.

By: Martin Rye

Martin Rye — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:21:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing so much with us on your blog Geoff. It is appreciated. I want to thank you as your effort here really inspired me to give the blogging thing a go. Thanks and happy Christmas to you and your family.

By: Geoff C

Geoff C — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:44:28 +0000

Thanks very much Marcus and a Merry Xmas to you.
We are running out of ideas for fundamentally different routes in the Lakes and Snowdonia and I don’t like repeating the same routes exactly, but I’ll come up with something.
I might do an article on the slideshow setup some time, it behaves just like the old slide carousel shows but the digital images on disk are advanced by a cordless gyroscopic mouse.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:09:01 +0000

Evening Geoff and Merry Christmas to you and V.

Charl and I took a chance on the weather on that same weekend in February and took ourselves over to Buttermere. We spent the Saturday walking along the ridge from Red Pike to Scarth Gap and had an amazing day of walking and weather.

I have to say I like the sound of your slideshow night, I bet you have some amazing images after that year in the hills.

I just wanted to post a comment to say thanks for helping me get into the hills this year when I spent my first night on the hill doing a route taken from your blog - The Buttermere fells. Your advice on routes in the black mountains was really helpful, as was your input on my Golite Lite-speed pack. Not to sound too much like a hanger-on but your Coniston route was the destination for my first solo wildcamp in July.

This New Year I hope to get out some more, especially now I am almost happy with my gear list for most seasons.

Merry Christmas.