Journeys by hiking, running, cycling and touring
Friday 15 July 10:30 Â Amazingly, we set off only half an hour late, which we put down to our strategy of telling Rik an earlier time than the rest of us. Â We all assembled in Wembley, because there was a tube station, but also because that was where we were picking the minibus, that would … Continue reading UK Three Peaks (2005): Ben Nevis
It's March 2005, and one day at work, the IT Director's personal assistant circulated an email inviting people to sign-up to enter the 3 Peaks challenge. Â Now I don't usually go for things like this, as I'm not that fit and whilst I enter these things with good intentions, my actual performance tends to fall … Continue reading UK Three Peaks (2005): Start of the Adventure
So, having signed up a couple of weeks ago to do the Three Peaks with a bunch of work colleagues, I started to really look forward to the annual university friends reunion that we do every year around this time. Â We're in the Peak District, the first time I've been here and I'm really liking … Continue reading The Peak District (2005)
My first ever mountain ascent was, like many other people's, Helvellyn in the Lake District. Having just graduated, my fiancée and I were on a week's holiday in Cumbria during the summer of 1992 - a holiday consisting mainly of visiting 'attractions' rather than being an outdoors type holiday. Nevertheless, one day we had the … Continue reading My first mountain