Anyone else into trekking, scrambling etc?

i fucking love walking obscene distances through remote, rugged terrain while wearing my awesome steelie boots and my rain-hat trilby, and carrying a flagon of cider.

  On 1/11/2010 at 5:54 PM, margaret thatcher said:

i'd rather play rugby than walk up a fucking hill.

babylon an ting (inktktonk)

Rushup Edge is about half an hour from me.

Of course i'm into trekking, especially in mushroom season!

Pennines ftw

trekking.

I do alot of roaming since scotland has the right to roam law (The right to walk anywear) Reform act in 2003 but the views I like more are abandoned buildings or derelict places it the middle of no wear, not like what opacity do in america but something simalar as at moment am traceing the old railways that Doctor Beeching closed in the 50s round my area.

  On 1/12/2010 at 12:24 AM, Jimbob said:

Rushup Edge is about half an hour from me.

 

Of course i'm into trekking, especially in mushroom season!

 

Pennines ftw

Pennie bun mushrooms ftw if you like them (I dont like any mushrooms) but if you do come across death cap mushrooms then ffs stand on it and kill it asap and dont eat any of them it cus it will fucking kill ya

Psilocybe Semilanceata mate

Are you sure Death Caps grow on our island?

Psilocybe Semilanceata is liberty cap

Death cap is amanita phalloides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata

  On 1/11/2010 at 8:20 PM, sidewinder said:

As said, it is good clean fun! It's nice getting to the top of a ridge, ledge, mountain, whatever, and having such an awesome panoramic view of the world around you. Nothing like it, really. What's nice about the whole experience too is that you leave all your problems behind. You're so focused on what you're doing, enjoying the scenery, conversing with whoever you're hiking with, etc. it's just a very liberating experience.

Yep, that's it.

  On 1/11/2010 at 8:52 PM, Obel said:

Trekking around is great when you get views like this.

Nice pics. Where is that? This is my part of the world...

That's stunning.

It's the cliffs around Boscastle, Cornwall.

why the fuck do people ridicule people for going for walks? what the fuck is this shit?

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:09 AM, Obel said:

That's stunning.

 

It's the cliffs around Boscastle, Cornwall.

Ah, hard to beat a good cliff!

It is stunning around here (Killarney, Co. Kerry is the town at the foot of the mountain in the second pic). On the other hand, the clubbing scene is a bit weak...but loads of hippies and the odd rave!

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:20 AM, Conor74 said:

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:09 AM, Obel said:

That's stunning.

 

It's the cliffs around Boscastle, Cornwall.

 

Ah, hard to beat a good cliff!

 

It is stunning around here (Killarney, Co. Kerry is the town at the foot of the mountain in the second pic). On the other hand, the clubbing scene is a bit weak...but loads of hippies and the odd rave!

Ah, fuck the clubbing scene. If I go away I go away more to chillax and take in scenery like that than to go out on the razz.

Cheers though! I've been looking for an ideal place to take a friend in Ireland! And myself of course, never been to Ireland. Looks like that will be spot on!

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:48 AM, Obel said:

Cheers though! I've been looking for an ideal place to take a friend in Ireland! And myself of course, never been to Ireland. Looks like that will be spot on!

If you like hikes or the outdoor life, Killarney is ideal. The town itself is a bit touristy (loads of accomodation and pubs mind), but the famous lakes and National Park are only a few miles away, with lots of walks ranging from very easy lakeside and trails through woods stuff to the highest mountain in this country, with plenty of good ridge walks and cliffs. And direct flights from Luton and Stanstead to Kerry Airport daily, which is about twenty minutes bus trip from Killarney town, so very accessible.

http://www.killarneynationalpark.ie/

Would be like our equivalent of the Lake District in England, maybe not as jammed with walkers, but the road through the Park gets pretty busy in the summer with coaches.

There are also ferries around the Lakes, lots of people hire bikes and head up through the Gap of Dunloe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_of_Dunloe

to the foot of the Reeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macgillycuddy's_Reeks

and get a boat through the lakes back down...

  On 1/12/2010 at 12:05 PM, Conor74 said:

http://www.killarneynationalpark.ie/

 

Would be like our equivalent of the Lake District in England, maybe not as jammed with walkers, but the road through the Park gets pretty busy in the summer with coaches.

 

There are also ferries around the Lakes, lots of people hire bikes and head up through the Gap of Dunloe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_of_Dunloe

to the foot of the Reeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macgillycuddy's_Reeks

and get a boat through the lakes back down...

Yeaahhhh boyyyy! I'll bookmark them when I get home. Sounds like a good long weekend away at some point. Nice one!

Here's as close as I got to the top of Mt. Rainier last September:

Here's a panorama I made: panorama

who the hell makes fun of people who like to walk? wtf

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:15 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

why the fuck do people ridicule people for going for walks? what the fuck is this shit?

  On 1/12/2010 at 9:30 PM, zaphod said:

who the hell makes fun of people who like to walk? wtf

Yeah, that's dumb. "Oh you like to explore the outdoors...your a nerd haha!1!!"

Going for walks in the country is good for you you get to see nature, Wear as those that make fun of me for doing that are out 2am binge drinking and they make fun of me ffs

  On 1/12/2010 at 9:19 PM, sidewinder said:

Here's a panorama I made: panorama

Excellent.

Winter wonderland stuff round here lately...

Oh and here's a random one from last summer, a prehistoric promontory fort on a cliff over the Atlantic ocean in the Aran Islands. Great spot, though maybe more ambling than scrambling...

OMG, those pics are amazing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I really miss doing this kind of thing. We had a whole gang of us that used to go on Rolling Psychogeographical Walks and Megalith Hunting and the like but the bloke who was the kind of the defacto leader of the thing moved to the States and no one's really got the organisational skills to make it happen so it kinda fell apart.

I spent my teenage years in Upstate NY - there are some really amazing mountains up there. There's no high in the world like turning around after you've just scrabbled your way up an almost vertical cliff and turn around with the whole of the Adirondacks behind you.

It's probably the biggest thing I miss, living in London now. I don't really feel quite up to doing it by myself, yet can't bring myself to get past the stigma of The Ramblers. (Besides, it's far more fun doing it with, well, weirdoes.)

But then I start watching old episodes of Coast and going all WAAAAAHHHH I want to visit Cornwall, I want to visit the Inner Hebrides, I want to go to the Orkneys... etc. And then I get as far as Broadstairs.

edit: ARGH I was searching for pics of our walks but he's let his Flickr account expire so they've gone. :(

  On 1/21/2010 at 1:39 PM, Masonic Boom said:

I spent my teenage years in Upstate NY - there are some really amazing mountains up there.

Always wanted to see the sun setting on the Allegheny hills, things get WILD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLO9bs-MXgk

Um, the Alleghenys are hundreds of miles away from the Adirondacks!

The Appalaichan mountain range runs the entire length of the continent. (Though some pedantic geology types insist that the Adirondacks aren't even part of the Appalaichians.)

  On 1/21/2010 at 4:40 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Um, the Alleghenys are hundreds of miles away from the Adirondacks!

Knew Sam the Stoat couldn't be trusted!

London might be a good drive to hiking country, but you should take off some weekend. You might even bump into Julia Bradbury...though this clip from youtube suggests someone with way too much time on their hands...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAf5_6IeOyQ&feature=related