Here’s a few more pictures taken by Graeme and Matt on the Shivery walk to the border…. brrrrr and a couple more from me on the reccy.
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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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We have Grayson Perry at 20 21 Arts Centre - We are lucky to have Grayson Perry on show at the 20 21 Arts Centre at the moment, one of my favourite artists. I had a quick pop in when I was in town las...
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Bumble Bee Nest & Wasp Nest This Week - Bumble Bee Nest Came Across Out Hiking, And Wasp Nest Came Across Out Kayaking.
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Getting a Clearer View...... - *We have been in Suffolk for three weeks now and like most of the country the weather continues to be stunning.....* *I have been getting out on the bike ev...
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Summit to Eat Freeze Dried Meals: Review - With three hundred days to the start of the fortieth Great Outdoors Challenge - you will have spotted the new countdown clock over to the right, I'm sure -...
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Test post - [image: P1050782] [image: P1050788] [image: P1050789] [image: P1050790] [image: P1050792] [image: P1050793] [image: P1050801] [image: P1050801...4 days ago
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Ross Back Sands - It is once more, that time of the year when Mike and I begin our annual visits to Ross Back Sands. The one downside to these visits is the need to carry wa...
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Sluice finished - hand rake made from cut off tines of big rake I've cut x4 poles and x4 cross struts to make a self standing Tarp shelter then it's not tied to the ca...
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TGOC2018 – A photo a day – Day 13 – The End – Peterhead harbour - This year I’m going to write a blog post for each day of my TGO Challenge crossing and base the post on one photograph from that day. The photo won’t nece...2 weeks ago
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Lochranza to Brodick "haute route" - As far as walks go, this has to be up there as one of our favourites. It may be a long one, at least 21km whatever version you do, but it's a good one. ...
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TGOC 2018 Days 11 to 14 (Mon 21st to Thu 24th) - Glenshee to Kinnaber Links - *TGOC 2018 Days 11 to 14 (Mon 21st to Thu 24th) - Glenshee to Kinnaber Links* It had been blue skies most of the way, so ONLY far that the final music sho...
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Three Bridges, Ribble Way. - Wednesday 20th June 2018. Our 3km walk to the railway station was showery and quite blustery. Considering the lovely weather of late we were in two minds i...
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Tuesday 12 June - Space Shuttle Discovery - Again this post is mainly for Sir Hugh (conradwalks.blogspot.com) since he has shown some interest in my plastic modelling activities. In the beginning The...
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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...9 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...2 years 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...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...
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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...
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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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2 comments:
Decidedly wintry looking. Some cracking photos, love the bridge/waterfall.
Lucky looks like he's saying something in his photo...
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