utterly random picture thread.

[gremlin]

Never mind all those ropes and crampons, a gentleman's only climbing aid should be a silver-topped walking cane.

[Count Steer]

Never mind all those ropes and crampons, a gentleman's only climbing aid should be a silver-topped walking cane.

Or a bag of chalk. (TBH, I'd want the ropes on this one!).



(Pics from 'The Art of Climbing' by Simon Carter. It's on my 'to buy' list. ).

[Count Steer]

....However, in reality, this is more 'us'. This is the missus 'touching rock', safely roped and I don't know where she put her silver topped cane, maybe it's telescopic.

[Count Steer]

....and finally...

(This isn't me, it's a chap called Alex Roddie but I have stood there when doing a mountain skills course at Plas y Brenin, got a pic somewhere with a better sense of the nothingness below for quite a long way . The Cannon Stone on Tryfan).

[Wossname]

We have a saying in our family, first coined by our daughter when she was about 4, referring to something a bit gruesome or scary. “That makes my bum feel funny!” That’s what those pics do to me!

[Druid]

We have a saying in our family, first coined by our daughter when she was about 4, referring to something a bit gruesome or scary. “That makes my bum feel funny!” That’s what those pics do to me!

You and me both

[Sunny]

....and finally...

(This isn't me, it's a chap called Alex Roddie but I have stood there when doing a mountain skills course at Plas y Brenin, got a pic somewhere with a better sense of the nothingness below for quite a long way . The Cannon Stone on Tryfan).

I don't climb, but I love a scramble - Tryfan is my favourite mountain - this is me!

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[Sunny]

And an Adam and Eve jump - also me

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[Horse]

Echoing others' comments, fuck that for a game of soldiers.

And that would have been true before my balance failed too.

[Skub]

(Pics from 'The Art of Climbing' by Simon Carter. It's on my 'to buy' list. ).

That pic makes my balls crawl. The stuff of nightmares.

[Sunny]

And an Adam and Eve jump - also me
Me - Tryfan jump.png

What it looks like from a distance, for context...

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[Horse]

And an Adam and Eve jump - also me
Me - Tryfan jump.png

What it looks like from a distance, for context...
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[Count Steer]

Did the Adam and Eve thing too, but Sunny's got better knees than me.

Rummaging through the pix archive I found this. Look at the big air! The mud on the bike! How far behind the next bloke is!

[Sunny]

That was the only time I've been up there when the weather conditions have been perfect for the jump - compare the outfit to my cannon photo

Every other time the wind gusts have made it a whole lot of nope

[Count Steer]

And an Adam and Eve jump - also me
Me - Tryfan jump.png

What it looks like from a distance, for context...
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Don't Google pix of 'The Totem Pole Tasmania'.

[Count Steer]

That was the only time I've been up there when the weather conditions have been perfect for the jump - compare the outfit to my cannon photo

Every other time the wind gusts have made it a whole lot of nope

I think Tryfan was the best weather day of the week iirc. Got a few pix of us all huddled in a bothy bag for lunches out of the weather on other days. Had to do a trek out to a valley and camp for a night navigation exercise too....fortunately the wind and rain had eased up then too.

Lovely area but a bit 'weathery'!

[Cousin Jack]

All these pics of sunny weather are making me sick. Meet reality, Penzance yesterday.
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[mangocrazy]

1st pic is Slioch ( Loch Maree ) looking back up to Kinlochewe . 2nd is Glen Doherty , looking down to Kinlochewe and Loch Maree

Thanks for that! I was hoping someone who knew would chip in. That makes sense, as pic 2 was taken first and I was heading down that lovely sinuous piece of road towards the Loch (Maree, as I now know it to be).

[Horse]

What it looks like from a distance, for context...
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Don't Google pix of 'The Totem Pole Tasmania'.

I will ignore the little devil on my shoulder whispering "go on, you know you really want to ... " [which I do ]

[Druid]

I will ignore the little devil on my shoulder whispering "go on, you know you really want to ... " [which I do ]

I'll save you the trouble



you're welcome