I ran on pen-y-ghent

[OneHillWonder]

and thats a proper fell isn't it?

How good am I? Still not as fast as my old dad going up but I am quicker coming down!

[daz h]

yes very good
was it snowing and windy

[david]

and thats a proper fell isn't it?

I like Pen y Ghent. You'll have to come up and run the race on 2nd June.

[OneHillWonder]

yes very good
was it snowing and windy

There was snow on the top left over from the day before - it was bright and breezy - here I am on top with a banana in the snow

[OneHillWonder]

I like Pen y Ghent. You'll have to come up and run the race on 2nd June.

I would be last.

But someone has to be so I might be there

[Calf]

Well done Hill!

Earn't your banana by the look of it!

[Sarah]

I would be last.

But someone has to be so I might be there

There's a good chance i'm doing this one too, OneHill, so that means there's also a good chance you might be second from last, so no worries there

[XRunner]

Still not as fast as my old dad going up but I am quicker coming down!

I came across ths poem:

That Dark Other Mountain

My father could go down a mountain faster than I
Though I was first one up
Legs braced or with quick steps he slid the gravel slopes
Where I picked cautious footholds.

Black, Iron, Eagle, Doublehead, Chocorua,
Wildcat and Carter Dome -
He beat me down them all. And that last other mountain
And that dark other mountain.

From "The Sound I Listened For", by Robert Francis
Published by Macmillan, 1943.

The mountains he refers to are part of the White Mountains range in New Hampshire.

[OneHillWonder]

wow i like it xrunner - how very apt

[XRunner]

wow i like it xrunner - how very apt

Try this one (with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Run every mountain, search high and low
Follow every byway, every path you know.
Run every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream!

A dream that will need
all the love you can give.
Every day of your life,
for as long as you live.

Run every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream!