Never mind all those ropes and crampons, a gentleman's only climbing aid should be a silver-topped walking cane.
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Never mind all those ropes and crampons, a gentleman's only climbing aid should be a silver-topped walking cane.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
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Count Steer
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
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.
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....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.
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....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).
(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).Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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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!
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I don't climb, but I love a scramble - Tryfan is my favourite mountain - this is me!Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:36 am ....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
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Echoing others' comments, fuck that for a game of soldiers.
And that would have been true before my balance failed too.
And that would have been true before my balance failed too.
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That pic makes my balls crawl. The stuff of nightmares.Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:07 am
(Pics from 'The Art of Climbing' by Simon Carter. It's on my 'to buy' list.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
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What it looks like from a distance, for context...
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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!
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!
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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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
Every other time the wind gusts have made it a whole lot of nope
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Don't Google pix of 'The Totem Pole Tasmania'.
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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'!
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All these pics of sunny weather are making me sick. Meet reality, Penzance yesterday.
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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).Treadeager wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:12 pm 1st pic is Slioch ( Loch Maree ) looking back up to Kinlochewe . 2nd is Glen Doherty , looking down to Kinlochewe and Loch Maree
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I will ignore the little devil on my shoulder whispering "go on, you know you really want to ... " [which I do
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