2009 The Score on the Door

A quick statistical and non-emotional roundup of wot-I-did-in-2009.

This will be especially helpful to absolutely nobody.

Look, I’m really just showing off, really. This is what happens when you divert your life away from distracting stuff like jobs.

Some highlights:

A 4 day backpack based on Sanquhar – great fun till it blew a hoolie at the end.

TGO Challenge from Glenelg to Johnshaven. Fun, as ever…

Cumbrian High Level walk – which wasn’t very high level after the monsoon started

Hadrians wall by public transport.

South Tyne Trail (OK, some of this was a bit dull….)

Gaping Gill – worra jape. Thanks to Tony for the invite

Breakfast in Smallcleuch Mine and the solstice watch in Clevison Currick – Thanks to Brian and Charlie

A productive 2 weeks Hewitt bagging in North Wales. I paid for this…..

Camping under Manchester Airport’s stack on Kinder (ta to Tony again)

I’ve probably missed quite a few… but everything can’t be a highlight, innit, even though they might have been good fun.

The Bare Facts (phwoar)

126 days with hillwalking done – covering 1245 miles and 206850 feet of uphill, and still managed to be 3kg heavier at the end than the beginning….

36 nights wildcamping, 10 car camping nights, 6 campsite nights, 2 bothies and one big cairn

8 underground trips and just the one gill walk (downhill)

I’m pretty happy with that lot – its marginally more than 2008.

And that, as they say on the allotments, is shallott… I will now begin 2010.

Finally – thanks to this chap. (who really did eat all the pies?)