Comments on: Done on Great Dun Fell https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/ ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:11:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21871 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:11:17 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21871 In reply to Bill.S.

Hi Bill. Thanks for that.

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]]> By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21736 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:45:56 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21736 In reply to EchoohcE.

Hi Mike. I wouldn’t mind some of that good weather.
Cheers, Alen

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]]> By: EchoohcE https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21735 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:40:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21735 Hi Alen, great views from there, like the reflection in the window and the shrew pics! Nice place to be in good weather. Thanks for the post.
Cheers, Mike

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]]> By: Bill.S https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21728 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:53:41 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21728 These mountain weather forcasts still seem to be free:–
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecast/#?tab=mountainHome

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]]> By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21725 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:25:50 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21725 In reply to Ash.

Hi Ash. That gave me a laugh. Hope your missis didn’t mind the pastry crumbs everywhere.
I thought that myself about the chaps up at the mine. The regular practice until quite recent times was for miners to spend the week in their “barracks” on site. Many of the bothy-type buildings that exist in the Lakes and Pennines were built as miners’ barracks.
Cheers, Alen

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]]> By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21723 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:17:32 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21723 In reply to Jo Woolf.

Hi Jo. I think it does a person good to get frozen to the bone every once in a while. It’s a long time since I’ve been that cold.
And my beard’s fine now, thanks. I gave it a shampoo and blow-dry when I got home.
All the best, Alen

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]]> By: mountaincoward https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21708 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:59:29 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21708 In reply to McEff.

Unfortunately not – Stravaiger John’s just out a post for the Grasmere area where we’re going to be going and there’s b*** all left! ????

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]]> By: Ash https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21696 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:53:15 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21696 Another great tale Alen. You were lucky not to get stuck up there! I watched that YouTube clip; I would have thought he might have been safer living up there than commuting every day! Also, I don’t have a beard so tried your suggestion! It didn’t work as I didn’t have wallpaper paste to hand just some PritStik & the pie-crust was too tasty to waste on my face (Fray Bentos of course)!

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]]> By: Jo Woolf https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21693 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:17:41 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21693 Wow, Alen, what amazing photos! Beautiful, but I feel chilled just looking at them! You did well to get up there and back safely in those conditions. As for online forecasts, I have stopped looking at the Met Office site and I feel much happier for it! ???? I hope that your beard has thawed out now! Love the abandoned mine and that photo of the shrew is superb! ????

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]]> By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21668 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:51:55 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21668 In reply to mountaincoward.

It’s cold enough, so you might just be lucky.

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]]> By: McEff https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21667 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:50:49 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21667 In reply to mountaincoward.

Ha ha. I shaved my beard off when I was 18 and my chin was so cold I haven’t shaved since. So you have my sympathies.
A trip inside Fylingdales must be very interesting. It’s a weird place when you see it stuck up there on top of the moors.
I don’t know what happened to the rabbit and the shrew. I should go back and check on them.

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]]> By: mountaincoward https://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/08/done-on-great-dun-fell/#comment-21666 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:45:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8857#comment-21666 In reply to McEff.

I’m hoping the snow can hang on in the Lakes for at least another week! ????

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