tgo: Last word: Mike Harding
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:30 +0100
I hear a suggestion that Mike Harding will shortly no longer be
appearing on the back page of tgo. Although nothing stays for ever, and
things do change, this is very sad. His article is always the best bit
in the magazine, and always the page I turn to first. I enjoy reading
the tales of grandchildren, mon ...
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Three peaks rescues
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:47:20 +0100
Interesting article here from the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7556718.stm
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Long Weekend Coming Up - Ridgeway (West) This Time
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:58:44 +0100
It's nearly time for my three-weekly weekend again :-)
I have a saunter along the Western end of The Ridgeway planned,
starting at Pewsey station on Saturday morning to arrive at Boring and
Discretely on Monday evening. Friday can be spent packing and Tuesday
recovering before throwing myself at the deep end of ...
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Solar Chargers for Trekking Use
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:17:38 GMT
Does anyone have any experience ofsolar chargers such as the
Freeloader, Power Monkey or any other? I would like to be able to
charge a Creative Zen MP4 player while trekking in warmer climes so I
can use the player in my tent during the hours of darkness. The solar
panel would be attached to my pack during the da ...
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"I don't believe it" No. 378
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:42:49 +0100
Headline from BBC Scotland website:
"Island bird attack couple rescued"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7555812.stm
What was this? a massed attack by giant Rocs, on some Arabian Gulf island?
Cassowaries running amok? No, a couple walking on Hoy, in the Orkneys,
were dive-bombed by Great S ...
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New Peak District photo-sharing website
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:32:50 -0700 (PDT)
There?s a new website for sharing photos, videos, comments and audio
files about the Peak District that might be of interest to members of
this forum. It?s called MyPeakExperience and is launched this week by
the Peak District Interpretation Partnership. We wanted to move away
from their just being websites where ...
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Another testimonial to Paramo service
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:21:56 +0100
Hello,
As the title says, I posted an article about 5 years ago about Paramo's
lifetime warranty and now I'm doing it again,
This time it was my wife's Scala jacket bought in '94 as far as I
recall. The elasticised wrist fastenings had lost some of their elastic
effect and a couple of the front press studs wer ...
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On Line Twins
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:46:51 +0100
Browsing around looking for a good price I have come across these two
online stores.
http://www.hike-lite.co.uk/information.php?info_id=22
http://www.kooks.co.uk/information.php?info_id=22
The ONLY diference between them is the name, domain and colours and
fonts used on their websites. They even have the same ...
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D H Lawrence Trail
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:53:43 +0100
Just been shown on BBC1 Countryfile.
Can any kind soul give me links to a map of it, please?
Needless to say the BBC.co.uk Countryfile page was useless as was my
Gogle search :-(
Many thanks,
Richard ...
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Hills database survey
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
Some members of this group will have used a hills database maintained
by Graham Jackson and myself at <www.biber.fsnet.co.uk/downloads.html>
We're conducting a survey to gauge what future extensions, if any, are
worth pursuing. If you use the database, whether regularly or not, it
would be very helpful if you c ...
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