Okay, when I say “back garden” I usually mean the Kilpatrick Hills. But due to post ice-age population distribution, and the change from black&white to colour in the late 60s, back gardens in 99% of cases have more of a lawnesque feel to them, with a fencette motif and bird bath standing in for the [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by PTC*
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I’ve often read of folks being envious of GT from Trail and CT from TGO. The ideal life that is an endless cavalcade of free gear and trips to the mountains every day to try it out.
I’ve always been a bit suspicious of it as these guys have to work their way through a whole pile [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by PTC*
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The furthest I got from base this weekend was for a quick look at GoOutdoors in Coatbridge where I met up with some chums. It’s interesting, a vast shed of wonder/horror*. Turns out some of the staff are familiar. That element, folk that know their stuff, could be the making of the place rather than anything that [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by PTC*
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The day was lost from a getting any work done point of view. The weather was looking, well irrelevant lets face it. You look at the weather to see what to wear, not whether to go out or not. So I went up the Kilpatricks for bit a walk/jog/trail run.
It was wet, muddy, visibility was down [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by PTC*
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And not a technical fabric in sight. There appears to be a frog in the clouds however.
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by PTC*
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It’s the knees that get it. We came down in the dark on Sunday after spending way too long on the hill again. Exploring, fannying about, building sandcastles, don’t ask me I’m too busy having fun.
No trouble though, we could see the lights of civilisation twinkling at the southern end of Loch Lomond, headtorches were [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by PTC*
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You know me, the grin is permanent. In the face of adverse conditions I just add more stuff onto my head. Such was the piercing cold and the ferocious wind encountered during our final couple of hundred meters on Ben Vorlich that we all ended up wearing everything we were carrying. Present but not necessarily [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2008 by PTC*
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We were sitting having stake-out in the motor (reverse parked obviously) having visited both Greggs and Aulds and partaken of their wares in abundance. It seems that there is an animosity between both branches of the shops, The Greggs girls had a “Who do they think they are?” attitude toward the Aulds girls, the Aulds girls [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2008 by PTC*
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It might leave the wrong impression on new listeners. So I’d like to talk about the underwear I’ve been wearing today instead.
An odd combination, both lightweight merino though. A Howies long sleeve crew and a pair of Chocolate Fish’s Taranaki boxers. The Howies top I’ve had for a year I think and it’s the stretchiest [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by PTC*
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Haglöfs have revamped their Climatic pant range for this year. Gone are Thor, Rabot and Nansen, and in are Lite, Mid and Rugged. At least it’s easier to see what your getting if not quite so wistful.
I’ve got a couple of pairs on test. They’re direct replacements of pants I’ve been using for a couple [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by PTC*
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Three of us were out and took advantage of the stunning conditions on the 12th. Between us we had two sets of aluminium Kahtoolas and one steel set, two CAMP Corsa and one Corsa Nanotech ice axes, a set of Icebug Speeds and a set of Icebug GGFly’s.
We climbed Beinn Dorain and had a bit of [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2008 by PTC*
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Aye, right.
…Extensive bright sunshine, especially inland. Mostly excellent
visibility, but temporarily poor in snow…
Indeed. See youse in a day or two.
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by PTC*
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