http://becausetheyrethere.com ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:53:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://becausetheyrethere.com http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/06/plodding-over-pinnel-in-the-rio-guadalfeo/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/06/plodding-over-pinnel-in-the-rio-guadalfeo/#comments Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:11:26 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7034 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/06/plodding-over-pinnel-in-the-rio-guadalfeo/feed/ 19 McEff Guadalfeo 1 Guadalfeo 4 I thought this meant "beware of the beans" ??? but then I saw the hives Guadalfeo 3 Guadalfeo 5 Guadalfeo 6 Guadalfeo 7 Guadalfeo 8 Guadalfeo 9 Guadalfeo 10 Guadalfeo 11 Guadalfeo 12 Guadalfeo 13 Guadalfeo 14 Guadalfeo 15 Guadalfeo 16 Guadalfeo 17 Guadalfeo 18 Guadalfeo 19 Guadalfeo 20 Guadalfeo 21 Guadalfeo 22 Guadalfeo 23 Guadalfeo 24 Guadalfeo 25 Guadalfeo 26 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/10/28/the-long-surrender-brandy-bottle-incline/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/10/28/the-long-surrender-brandy-bottle-incline/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:30:04 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6877 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/10/28/the-long-surrender-brandy-bottle-incline/feed/ 19 McEff brandybottle 1 brandybottle 2 brandybottle 4 brandybottle 5 brandybottle 6 brandybottle 7 brandybottle 8 brandybottle 9 brandybottle 10 brandybottle 11 brandybottle 12 North Rake Hush ??? Carved by men and lots of water brandybottle 3 brandybottle 14 brandybottle 17 brandybottle 15 brandybottle 16 "Lucy was dismayed to find that Mr Tumnus had been on the vodka again and had taken a sledge-hammer to the lamp-post. She sighed dramatically, as children do when they are vexed, and kicked the empty bottle into the stream." brandybottle 20 brandybottle 24 brandybottle 22 brandybottle 23 brandybottle 25 brandybottle 26 brandybottle 27 brandybottle 28 brandybottle 30 brandybottle 31 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/26/mourne-mountains-slieve-binnian-and-second-impressions/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/26/mourne-mountains-slieve-binnian-and-second-impressions/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:30:13 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6353 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/26/mourne-mountains-slieve-binnian-and-second-impressions/feed/ 17 McEff Mourne 1 Mourne 3 Mourne 2 Mourne 28 Mourne 5 Mourne 6 Mourne 4 Mourne 7 Mourne 8 Mourne 9 Mourne 27 Mourne 26 Mourne 13 Mourne 12 Mourne 11 Mourne 14 Mourne 15 Mourne 16 Mourne 17 Mourne 18 Mourne 10 Mourne 20 Mourne 19 Mourne 21 Mourne 22 Mourne 23 Mourne 24 Mourne 25 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/10/above-bethesda-ancient-and-modern/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/10/above-bethesda-ancient-and-modern/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6325 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/06/10/above-bethesda-ancient-and-modern/feed/ 23 McEff bethesda 1 bethesda 5 bethesda 7 bethesda 8 bethesda 6 bethesda 2 bethesda 3 bethesda 4 bethesda 9 bethesda 10 bethesda 11 bethesda 15 bethesda 14 bethesda 13 bethesda 12 bethesda 16 bethesda 17 bethesda 2 bethesda 1 bethesda 17 bethesda 16 bethesda 15 bethesda 14 bethesda 13 bethesda 12 bethesda 11 bethesda 10 bethesda 9 bethesda 8 bethesda 7 bethesda 6 bethesda 5 bethesda 4 bethesda 3 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/28/manod-and-mysteries-earth-and-environment/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/28/manod-and-mysteries-earth-and-environment/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 08:00:29 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6231 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/28/manod-and-mysteries-earth-and-environment/feed/ 12 McEff Manod 1 Manod 3 Manod 32 I've included this picture purely for personal satisfaction. This is me standing next to a CP (Chicago Pneumatic) 600cfm compressor up at Manod in 1982. At that time I worked with a similar machine at Stainton Quarry near Barrow. When I saw it standing there it was like meeting an old and ear friend. I suppose it's a man thing. Manod 2 Manod 5 Manod 6 Manod 7 Manod 4 Manod 8 Manod 12 Manod 9 Manod 13 Manod 10 Manod 14 Manod 11 Manod 15 Manod 16 Manod 17 Manod 18 Did I just say nearly everything was powered by water and gravity? This is the skeleton of a steam boiler. Manod 19 Manod 20 Manod 21 Manod 36 Manod 37 Manod 38 Manod 23 Manod 24 Manod 22 Manod 26 manod 39 Manod 29 Manod 27 Manod 35 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/22/thirty-years-on-cwmorthin-revisited/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/22/thirty-years-on-cwmorthin-revisited/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:37 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6162 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/22/thirty-years-on-cwmorthin-revisited/feed/ 23 McEff cwmorthin 1 Cwmorthin 7 Cwmorthin 4 Cwmorthin 2 croesor 1a croesor 17 Cwmorthin 5 Cwmorthin 6 Cwmorthin 3 Cwmorthin 8 Cwmorthin 19 Cwmorthin 21 Cwmorthin 10 Cwmorthin 13 Cwmorthin 11 Cwmorthin 16 Cwmorthin 22 One of the ruined waterwheel pits at Croesor Cwmorthin 14 Croesor beckons . . . but not today Cwmorthin 18 Cwmorthin 20a croesor 3 croesor 2 croesor 5 croesor 6 croesor 9 croesor 10 croesor 11 croesor 13 croesor 12 croesor 16 croesor 7 croesor 15 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/07/sutton-bank-witches-and-featherless-geese/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/07/sutton-bank-witches-and-featherless-geese/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:56 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6127 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/05/07/sutton-bank-witches-and-featherless-geese/feed/ 23 McEff sutton bank 1 sutton bank 2a sutton bank 4 sutton bank 8 sutton bank 2 sutton bank 9 sutton bank 5 Two chaps building a ramp for wheelchair users at a viewpoint sutton bank 7 sutton bank 6 sutton bank 10 sutton bank 11 sutton bank 12 sutton bank 14 sutton bank 15 sutton bank 16 sutton bank 13 sutton bank 17 sutton bank 18 sutton bank 20 sutton bank 19 Cold Kirby across the fields, just as the rain begins to fall http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/04/25/forever-changing-broad-majestic-duddon/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/04/25/forever-changing-broad-majestic-duddon/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:30:10 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=6079 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/04/25/forever-changing-broad-majestic-duddon/feed/ 15 McEff duddon 1a duddon 2 askam 6 duddon 32 duddon 4 duddon 5 duddon 3 duddon 6 duddon 9a duddon 8 duddon 7 duddon 11 duddon 10 A piece of a beer bottle ??? probably Victorian ??? washed smooth by the sea. At a guess I'd say this formed part of a bottle embossed with "Hartley's of Ulverston", a local brewery, the name of which still survives duddon 33 duddon 12a duddon 13 duddon 14 duddon 19 duddon 17 duddon 18 duddon 15 duddon 16 duddon 22 duddon 23 duddon 26 duddon 24 duddon 25 duddon 28 duddon 30 duddon 31 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/03/04/mud-its-alive-and-sticking/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/03/04/mud-its-alive-and-sticking/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:00:58 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5587 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/03/04/mud-its-alive-and-sticking/feed/ 27 McEff mud 1 mud 3 mud 5 mud 6 mud 7 mud 8 mud 9 mud 2 mud 15 mud 14 mud 13 mud 12 mud 10 mud 4 mud 17 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:00:51 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/feed/ 25 McEff Burlington 1 A walk on the quarry top, with Black Combe and the Duddon estuary in the background Burlington 2 Burlington 6 Burlington 7 Burlington 8 David Coward, Geoff Dickinson and George Gledhill outside the level Burlington 11 The forebreast charged up and ready for firing Water pours down the right-hand wall of the level heading Burlington 5 From left, Peter Inman, David Coward, Chris Cook, me crouching Burlington 12 level level1 Burlington 13 Burlington 14 Burlington 20 Burlington 21 Burlington 22 Burlington 23 Surveying the results of the blast, from left, wire sawmen John "La'l Joker" Postlethwaite, Ronnie Cartmel, quarrymen Peter Inman and Chris Cook, level-driver David Coward and quarry manager Mike Dickinson The next morning, David Coward up on the "hill", the mound of blasted rock that now fills the end of the quarry Burlington 26 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/12/07/rookhope-a-reminder-of-who-we-are/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/12/07/rookhope-a-reminder-of-who-we-are/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:46:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5471 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/12/07/rookhope-a-reminder-of-who-we-are/feed/ 10 McEff grove rake 1 rookhope 2 rookhope 1 rookhope 3 rookhope 4 rookhope 6 rookhope 7 rookhope 8 grove rake 2 grove rake 6 grove rake 4 grove rake 5 grove rake 8 grove rake 7 grove rake 9 grove rake 10 rookhope 11 rookhope 12 rookhope 13 rookhope 14 rookhope 15 grove rake 1 rookhope 2 rookhope 1 rookhope 4 rookhope 3 rookhope 6 rookhope 7 rookhope 8 grove rake 2 grove rake 6 grove rake 4 grove rake 5 grove rake 7 grove rake 10 grove rake 8 rookhope 11 grove rake 9 rookhope 12 rookhope 13 rookhope 14 rookhope 15 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/11/06/high-cup-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-belfast-sinks/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/11/06/high-cup-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-belfast-sinks/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:00:08 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5349 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/11/06/high-cup-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-belfast-sinks/feed/ 44 McEff high cup 1a high cup 2 Lyla McF high cup 3 high cup 4 high cup 7a high cup 7 high cup 6 high cup 11 high cup 12 high cup 13 high cup 14 high cup 15 high cup 16 high cup 17 high cup 9 high cup 10 high cup 18 high cup 21 high cup 19 high cup 1