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Helvellyn

Date:
17.02.2013
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

Since I had to catch a train from Windermere in the afternoon, I decided just to take a short morning trip along a route I knew well, beginning in Grasmere and passing over the tops of Dollywagon Pike, Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn. I had a plan to descend back down to Swirls and walk through the forest back to Grasmere but in the end I decided to be lazy and get a bus back to the village instead. Had really nice weather - blue skies, sunshine and it was not cold. Well, that's not exactly true. It wasn't cold in the start of the day when I was walking up Tongue Gill, but by the time I reached Grisedale Hause, there was a massive strong wind coming up from the south, and that made it pretty difficult to walk at times. Thought there might be a bit of shelter behind one of the walls on Helvellyn's >>>

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Spidean a'Choire Leith (George)

Date:
12.02.2013
Characteristic:
Alpine climbing
Duration:
8:00h
Distance:
8.0km

Third day of our climbing course up in the northwest highlands, and also supposedly the final day of settled, beautiful weather before rain was going to set in. So to make the most of this, and the excellent snow and ice conditions we'd experienced so far, it was decided that we would head towards Torridon and attempt one of the 'classic' routes called George, which is located in Coire Dubh Mor on the northern side of Liathach. Since the route was 4-5 pitches long and the drive from Strathcarron would take around 45 minutes it also meant having to drag ourselves out of bed for another early start. But it would probably be worth the effort as the previous two days' trips had proved! So at 7am we were out of the cottage and bundled once again into Ken's van. It felt pretty mild outside, still >>>

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Sgorr Ruadh (Post Box Gully)

Date:
11.02.2013
Characteristic:
Alpine trip
Distance:
14.0km

After out first day out climbing Access Gully on Fuar Tholl, we had a small discussion about whether to go somewhere with a long walk-in, or a shorter walk-in for our second day of climbing. As things turned out we ended up heading for Sgorr Ruadh which was the longer walk-in option. I was secretly happy about that. The mountain itself was located in the same valley as Fuar Tholl, but slightly more to the north-west. To get to Post Box Gully, which was on the north side of the mountain, we first had to walk 6 to 7km from Achnashellach along the river Lair, with Beinn Liath Mor to our right and Sgorr Ruadh to our left. It was not too taxing, rising gradually from Achnashellach. On the other hand, with all our climbing equipment loaded onto our backs it was no walk in the park either, especially >>>

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Fuar Tholl (Access Gully)

Date:
10.02.2013
Characteristic:
Alpine trip

Today’s objective (today being the first day of a 5-day winter climbing course) was an ascent of Fuar Tholl via Access Gully. Fuar Tholl is one of the mountains more local to Strathcarron, where we were staying and only about 5 minutes drive down the road. On the course with me were 2 other guys, Ryan and Alex and our instructor Ken who I will best remember as being cheerful and enthusiastic with a natural walking pace which seemed to match his enthusiasm for instructing. We had what was deemed to be a ‘late’ start by leaving the lodge at 8.00. If that was supposed to be late, I expected the rest of the week to be a struggle……. Nevertheless, everyone managed to be ready with the kit sorted out on time, and we were soon heading swiftly up the lower south-eastern slopes of the mountain >>>

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Fagerfjellet

Date:
06.02.2013
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
3:30h

Jeg og Kristin tok denne korte turen til Fagerfjellet som en formiddagstur. Jeg hentet Kristin fra Lauksletta kl.8.30 og vi kjørte til parkeringsplassen (egentlig en bussholdeplass) ved siden av veien litt utenfor Fagernes. Snøen var myk og lett å gå opp til vi nådde tregrensen. Deretter var det avblåst på mesteparten av fjellet, og så var snøoverflaten ikke jevn. Det ble litt bedre i høyden, men da vi kom til varden var det bare isete snø. Derimot var det flotte utsikt mot sør langs hele Lavangsdalen. Med sola i ansiktene våre, var det nesten vårstemning. Toppen var vindstille og Hamperokken sin profil var fantastisk å stirre på :-) Vi brukte omtrent 20 minutter på toppen siden det føltes så varmt og utsikt var så nydelig. Vi hadde tid å slappe av, drikke cappuccino og >>>

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Nordfjellet

Date:
03.02.2013
Characteristic:
Randonnée/Telemark
Duration:
5:00h

Initially there was going to be just Kristin and myself on this trip to Ringvassøya, which we talked about doing after our day out on Stormheimfjellet. But after some thinking, we thought that it could perhaps be quite fun to have a few others joining on the trip. Unexpectedly the group soared from 2 to 10 just the day before we went, after friends decided to bring along other companions too! So we ended up being a convoy of 4 cars driving to a relatively small parking spot on the side of the road by Sandelva where we planned to start the trip up Nordfjellet. Fortunately the small parking space turned out to be large enough to accommodate at least 7 or 8 cars, so there was no problem with squeezing everyone in. Somehow Siv and Ingvild had got lost on the way, but after a quick phone call to >>>

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