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Re: The North Face

PS. Great insight, I thought, from the video posted by P.North at
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by Chris Henshall
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:32 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The North Face
Replies: 34
Views: 1465

Re: The North Face

Don't want to be too self-congratulatory here but I do think that it's a tribute to those who participate in the chat on this site that no one has descended into language which involves terms like "culture wars" and "woke agenda". Good! Everyone appears pretty rational and prepa...
by Chris Henshall
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:14 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The North Face
Replies: 34
Views: 1465

Re: The North Face

The BMC has a page on it at https://www.thebmc.co.uk/will-you-be-an-outdoor-ally. Sounds rather enlightened to me; I certainly can't see why anyone (well, perhaps anyone except someone like Trump) would be against encouraging diversity, equality of opportunity and inclusion in the outdoors. Given t...
by Chris Henshall
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:20 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The North Face
Replies: 34
Views: 1465

Re: The silliest sign you've seen on a walk?

A noticeboard of misinformation sponsored by, among others, the Scottish Countryside Alliance Educational Trust, Scottish Land and Estates, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and, perhaps more surprisingly, by the National Park Authority. Day 6b - Conservation in action.jpg References to &quo...
by Chris Henshall
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:45 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The silliest sign you've seen on a walk?
Replies: 55
Views: 4626

Re: Munros Ninety Eight to One Hundred and Three

Toddy, Excellent to hear from you! Steve Chalk and I are heading up to do some stravaiging in late May and, at the rate I'm going, I'll probably be in a position to finish either next year or soon afterwards; that'll put me over the 50 year mark! I'm saving Schiehallion for my last Munro, partly as...
by Chris Henshall
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:47 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: Munros Ninety Eight to One Hundred and Three
Replies: 2
Views: 2604

Re: Helvellyn

I wish I knew the Lake District a bit better. For a relatively small area of less than 900 square miles, it's astonishingly varied and, if you're prepared to walk a little way from the honeypots, it isn't difficult to get away from the crowds. As such, it is definitely worth getting to know the are...
by Chris Henshall
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:17 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Helvellyn
Replies: 13
Views: 1393

Re: Helvellyn

Thanks for these photos; I'm stuck down in Kent so really enjoyed seeing the Lakes under reasonable winter conditions on a beautiful day. I spent many days teaching winter skills on the eastern side of Helvellyn above Red Tarn in the early 90s and it is good to see that, at times anyway, the corrie...
by Chris Henshall
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:39 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Helvellyn
Replies: 13
Views: 1393

Re: Getting started with snow hikes - courses, routes, kit?

Apologies; had no idea that "grade three" meant anything other than a grade three winter climb - although have been dimly aware of grade three scrambles, etc. for a while. Probably need to be less myopic and realise that everything is graded these days, from chip shops to existential reli...
by Chris Henshall
Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:16 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Getting started with snow hikes - courses, routes, kit?
Replies: 27
Views: 4223

Re: Dartmoor camping ban overturned on appeak

Isn't this pretty much the class system going back centuries? Sadly yes; that's why I don't like it! Class should be an adjective reserved for describing talent (as in "form is temporary, class is permanent") not a system which reveres and rewards undeserved privilege which people haven't...
by Chris Henshall
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:23 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Dartmoor camping ban overturned on appeak
Replies: 11
Views: 2762

Re: Getting started with snow hikes - courses, routes, kit?

The best advice that I can give you is to get to know someone else with a good deal of experience and head off into the hills with them, picking up both experiences of your own and information about useful kit incrementally. While there's lots of good advice already posted here (I'm afraid that I h...
by Chris Henshall
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:07 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Getting started with snow hikes - courses, routes, kit?
Replies: 27
Views: 4223

Re: Outdoorsy film review - is there a thread yet

Chris Henshall wrote: Here's the best (the only) climbing film with which I've ever been involved: https://vimeo.com/180467332. Sadly, it'll never gain much publicity because it (deliberately) offends many advertisers / potential sponsors. This is great, really made me laugh! Thanks Malolis, I thin...
by Chris Henshall
Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:21 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Outdoorsy film review - is there a thread yet
Replies: 30
Views: 2488

Re: Outdoorsy film review - is there a thread yet

Here's the best (the only) climbing film with which I've ever been involved: https://vimeo.com/180467332. Sadly, it'll never gain much publicity because it (deliberately) offends many advertisers / potential sponsors.
by Chris Henshall
Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:07 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Outdoorsy film review - is there a thread yet
Replies: 30
Views: 2488

Re: All the Lakeland Tops

Thanks for the comments, St Pedro. Climbing hills like these over an extended period of time creates all sorts of evocative memories and they resonate down the years. I took a bunch of students climbing in the Lakes last July and it was wonderful re-visiting some of the places I hadn't nosed around...
by Chris Henshall
Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:52 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: All the Lakeland Tops
Replies: 15
Views: 9914

Re: "true" distance covered over rough ground

Not completely relevant but (possibly) a bit interesting is that a river is considered to meander when its sinuosity index exceeds 1.5 (ie. the length of channel exceeds what is effectively the length of the valley by a half). The discussion, therefore, suggests that we meander when confronted with...
by Chris Henshall
Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:07 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: "true" distance covered over rough ground
Replies: 7
Views: 750

Re: Littledale Round

Thank you for that; just what I needed after a (very) long day at work as the October evenings start to draw in... I particularly liked your "Beeline" photo - a thin, carefully trodden track heading up a familiar ridge towards ever more extensive views on a lovely day with no one else clu...
by Chris Henshall
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:01 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Littledale Round
Replies: 5
Views: 796
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