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me and superdawg
About Me
- Mike Knipe
- Crook, County Durham, United Kingdom
- I am a retired NHS Personnel person. All I do nowadays is walk about. I used to have my pet dog Bruno with me (in the front page pic). he was Superdawg but he died. Now I have Lucky the pup. He's a bit like Bruno, only smaller and more suspicious.
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The Coyles of Muick (NO328910; 601m) - Distance (bike): 8.7 miles Distance (foot): 2 miles (180m ascent) Weather: Glorious, although with cloud approaching by the time I descended. Start point: Ba...
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A Trip to Tarfside - Many TGO Challengers pass through Tarfside, which is between one and three days from Montrose, depending on which way you walk. A small team of volunteer...
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A tale of two sleeping bags: initial review the Berghaus Elevation 200 - This is a very delicate and sensitive matter that I have to broach carefully so as not to upset Big Orange, my wonderful Mountain Equipment... Read full ar...14 hours ago
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Sunshine..A Rasberry and on the Road Again...... - *Well the past 28 days have flown by....* *It doesn't seem possible that we have been here at the Verwood C&CC site for almost a month....* *In the main we...
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A Change is Gonna Come - Eaves Wood – Waterslack – Sixteen Buoys Field – Hawes Water – Thrang Brow – Yealand Allotment – Leighton Moss – Golf Course – The Row – Hagg Wood. Hawes Wa...23 hours ago
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Sausage, roasted Vegetables and Puy lentil - I just love lentils and a one pot dish. It’s the saviour for the washer upper! Ingredients 8 sausages 2 x 400g packs ready-to-roast vegetables 3 garlic clo...
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David has a makeover - Hello and Good Morning. The sun has got his hat on, he's coming out today, the sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray. Poor David is looking a bit...
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TGOC18 Days 1 to 6 - I realise I have a few blog followers who aren’t on Twitter so won’t have heard anything from my TGO Challenge trip this year. I’ve had very little interne...4 days ago
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Hollingworth Lake stroll. - Yesterday we managed a few hours to ourselves and considering how nice the weather was we decided to get the train to Smithy Bridge and then take our time ...
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Plantar Fasciitis And Me - This photograph of me was taken in 2016, on an unsupported, 8 day trip in Arctic Sweden. It has something about it that I really like. But the woman in tha...1 week ago
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Not Daundering, 23rd–25th April 2018 - *A naughty backpack from Clapham to Dent* This was all Mike’s idea, me Dawn, Lucky and Chrissie just went along for the ride. And the beer, there may hav...2 weeks ago
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The 2018 PreWalk Daunder in the Lake District - or *"THE KIDS AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS..."* It's been an incredibly hectic few weeks here. On the Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I joined a Motley C...
2 weeks ago -
Not a daunder in the Dales! - This was a pre TGO gear shakedown put together by Mike ( northernpies.blogspot.co.uk) Train cancellations meant missed connections and it was past five in t...
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Graystones to Whinlatter Circular. - To the north of Thornthwaite Forest above Whinlatter pass there are five Wainwright's, four of which can be easily linked together to give a grand days o...
3 weeks ago -
Learn To Lead Rock Climb Outdoors - Course Coming Up In May - Our next six-day *Beginner To Lead Climber Course* is coming up in May (six days divided over two separate weekends). Two places left to book if anyone is ...3 weeks ago
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Post-Walk Ramble about a Pre-Walk Daunder - Still smiling, camped below Scafell in Upper Eskdale in the English Lake District I thrust the last sixpence of my pocket money into the shopkeeper’s hand...
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The Arctic Trail – Kautokeino to Kilpisjärvi pt4 (mountains and waterfalls) - The Arctic trail starts at Kautokeino in the far north of Norway and heads south for approximately 800 kilometres. It crosses into Finland and Sweden, fini...1 month ago
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Customer Service - Once in a while a retailer provides service above and beyond what might reasonably be expected. Emodels is such a retailer. As some may recall, I wrote her...1 month ago
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Bollocks to Brexit - We are now 21 months on from the EU referendum and 12 months from when Theresa May handed in the Article 50 notification. The UK and EU have just agreed a ...1 month ago
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Scarpa R Evo GTX Boots UK 11 (EU 46) - *Scarpa R Evo GTX Boots UK 11 (EU 46)* *£120 or best sensible offer (**sensible!**)* SOLD Cambridge, Cambridgeshire These are an almost new pair of Scarpa...
2 months ago -
Wetherlam Today....My Favourite Hill By My Favourite Route - Readers of this blog will more than likely be aware that Wetherlam is a favourite. Todsy the forecast was for an improving kinda day. Sometimes you just ha...
2 months ago -
Keeping it local - Misty Law - One thing's for sure, the beast from the east kinda disrupted the plans for the weekend. While Ballater may have been the desired destination, playing in ...
2 months ago -
So, that was 2017 - It has been such a busy year! I don’t think I can actually remember everything that’s happened ad everywhere I’ve been. Harry the Hernia was dealt with i...4 months ago
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Happy New Year ... Happy Christmas !! - It seems a surreal and an unfamiliar experience to be publishing a post after a break of about 18 months. It's been a busy period due to getting marrie...
5 months ago -
Days like this, No 27: The Old Man of Hoy - ROBERT Louis Stevenson; John Buchan; Enid Blyton; Daniel Defoe; Jules Verne; William Golding; Arthur Ransome; CS Lewis: Jonathan Swift; RM Ballantyne. They...7 months ago
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msr mini groundhogs - An easy way of losing weight from your rucksack is to replace the the tent pegs that come with your shelter. Whilst these aren't necessarily poor quality...
9 months ago -
ZOMG… I’ve written a book! - Well, sort of 🙂 I decided to spend the Easter holiday converting my various walking write-ups into an Amazon eBook. Please do take a look! Piglet, Catty a...1 year ago
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A Quick Backpack on Kinder - My first backpack of the year was the last weekend in March. I had been watching the weather forecast for this week and it looked like it was going to be ...1 year ago
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Scotland 2014 – Morvern Peninisula - Returning to the mainland from Mull, the cheaper option is to take the short crossing over the Sound of Mull to Lochaline on the Morvern peninisula. Howeve...
1 year ago -
Win Hill from Yorkshire Bridge - I'd worked the last ten days in a row after working all last weekend. I was overdue a very much well deserved and required day off to recharge the batterie...
1 year ago -
New MDB Posts - The latest MDB posts can now be found on facebook pages.... thank you for all your continued interest and support https://m.facebook.com/mydadsboots/ T...
1 year ago -
This aint on party, this aint no disco, this aint no foolin' around - So, I’m sitting at the bar of the Café Royal with a pint of Guinness , half a dozen oysters, and a Colin Parsons Scotsman crossword. During the course of...
1 year ago -
Last Post Here....Blog move.... - Thank you everybody who has taken the time and interest to read my blog over the previous couple of years. I am still doing it, but I have now moved over t...1 year ago
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Underscar, overscar wandering free -ly to Castle Bolton on Valentines Day - It must be something in our genes - the desire to wander and visit different places. It doesn't matter how we achieve it, either by visiting a town for the...
2 years ago -
BLOG NOW OPEN ON WORDPRESS - Hi folks. If you've popped in on here wondering what's going on then please let me explain. *This 'blogger' blog is now closed.* I'm now blogging on WordP...2 years ago
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Allcock Tarn and Nab Scar - a Lake District National Park guided walk - 3 July 2015 - Hi there dear blog reader. Thanks for taking the time to read my blog - It's been a while since I put pen to paper, metaphorically speaking, but I'm rarin...
2 years ago -
A gentle stroll......... - The plan to walk up to Pressendye and along the ridge was again abandoned today. This time not because the cloud was too low, the rain too wet or the wi...
3 years ago -
More from Lakeland! - Carrying on from our last post, with Sunday's walks, our first walk of the day being Bowscale Fell, another which I've had my eye on doing for a while. B...
4 years ago -
...but then again, too few to mention... - I get out a fair bit, life is bold and colourful, but.... but...the hill fun I have is small potatoes in comparison to the hard-core hill spooks on my blog...
5 years ago -
The stats from the walk I did on 7th March. - Here are a few details and the stats from the walk I did on Monday 7th March. I didn’t do this as a circular walk as I was able to get dropped off by my mu...
7 years ago -
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some websites
- Black Paw Brewery
- bill gallons north east walks
- blethering blonde
- bondringo learn navigation
- digital denbighshire
- doodlecat
- grough
- hare and hounds westgate
- http://outdoorsmanning.com
- http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk
- http://www.tgochallenge.co.uk
- lake district weather and fell top conditions
- lake district weatherline inc fell top conditions
- lonewalkers diary
- mind - mental health charity
- mountain trails dehydrated meals
- mountain weather forecasts
- outdoors grub
- rambling badgers collect Y Dales 2000 foot tops
- section hiker
- v-g bacpacking website and blog
- will it rain today?
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5 comments:
That's top of my Pops, Michael.
:-)
I couldn't find any scouse ramblers videos, so I thought that a little ornithology might be just as bad.
Are you giving someone the bird??????
Just a jape, Laura.... There's a bit of a hiatus in the walks just now. Service resumes normally soon.
Disgraceful!
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