Comments on: Days Like This, No 10: Peaking on the Three Peaks

By: McEff

McEff — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:35:35 +0000

Ha ha. I remember the Hill Inn from my caving days. Ah, happy times . . .

By: smackedpentax

smackedpentax — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:59:05 +0000

I must admit – it gets harder as you go on. And sometimes it is VERY hard to go past the Hill Inn…

By: McEff

McEff — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:15:11 +0000

Hi James. That sounds like a good time. I’m only two years behind you in the age stakes so perhaps I might do it again. Or perhaps not. I think my legs would seize up these days.
Cheers, Alen

By: smackedpentax

smackedpentax — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:54:47 +0000

Great post – and I love the retro photo of you! I ‘did’ the peaks last year solo to celebrate my 59th birthday. I rarely do them as nowadays they are full of fat office workers panting up the hill thinking they are doing their bit for charity. I didn’t clock in at the Horton caff – but my unofficial time was 8:45 – not bad for an ‘old un…

By: McEff

McEff — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:23:52 +0000

Penyghent, Pen-y-Ghent. Tomatoes, tomaytoes. Howay the lads, Haway the lads. I???m just going by what it says on the Ordnance survey map. And it says Pen-y-Ghent. But, as my late father-in-law used to say: ???It says Nestles on the buses but they???re not going to bloody Switzerland.???
Incidentally, that was the same late father-in-law who fought with Monty in north Africa and told my wife not to go there for a holiday ???Coz it stinks, our lass.???
I am very impressed with the President Lincoln story, Peter, and wish I had one to rival it. My father did once shake hands with Sir Alec Douglas Home at a garden party at Holker Hall but he was still alive (in fact, they both were), so I suppose it doesn???t count.
Cheers, Alen

By: Peter Bennett

Peter Bennett — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:32:17 +0000

Tynemouth Tirpitz again! I climbed Pen-y-Ghent many years ago when it was Penyghent (as the mountain coward writes) all I remember is the raisin sandwiches we ate on the top and nowt else! I was born at an early age and it is now Pen-y-Ghent? Are the Welsh re-naming it? I think we should be told. Perhaps Nothern Echo workers toiling in The Valleys might have renamed in the hope of an increase in pay. How ever I have found out (This is true)that a former pupil at my old alma mater helped to remove President Lincoln’s body out of the theatre when he was shot.Was he the person who went back in and said ‘Apart from that Mrs Lincoln did you enjoy the show’? So back to investigation.I quitted hill climbing when the annual Admiral culling season started.More later.

By: McEff

McEff — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:34:04 +0000

Hi Jo. It’s a very inexpensive way to travel but there are occasions when you come down with a bump. I have experienced similar winds in the Howgill Fells, near Sedburgh, and it’s great fun once you get the hang of it. I also got “blown up” Mam Sodhail above Glen Affric once, and that’s a great way to climb mountains. Takes all the strain out of it.
Cheers, Alen

By: Jo Woolf

Jo Woolf — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:01:42 +0000

Alen, I can feel the exhilaration and the pain! The free-flying episode sounds slightly alarming but with the price of air travel between, say, Leeds and Edinburgh, some people might consider it a serious alternative! I guess you wouldn’t need to be too fussy about your destination, though (a cheaper version of EasyJet, without the ‘Jet’ part). And I agree with Hanna, that’s a good idea for a book! :)

By: leamuse

leamuse — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:04:55 +0000

Ah, a bit technical for me but they are stunning! Thank you, L??a

By: leamuse

leamuse — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:18:50 +0000

Alen, they are wonderful. Thank you for the information. However, despite a Master’s Degree in Psychology, I am fairly ignorant about cameras. My efforts are strictly point and shoot! :)
Sant??
L??a

By: McEff

McEff — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:39:10 +0000

Hi Hanna. Yes, I am patient with my friend Harry. But he has a lot to put up with, keeping his wife in luxury and attending to her every need. I have no doubt that one day we will sail away to the Isle of Man together and talk about old times while the sun sinks below the horizon. I look forward to that.
I like that guidebook thing. Things go wrong all the time. That’s given me an idea for writing something.
Cheers, Alen

By: McEff

McEff — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:26:42 +0000

Thanks, Leamuse. They were taken on Kodachrome 35mm transparencies and converted to digital. The originals have more definition, but what the hell.
Cheers, Alen