We ran all of the downs, half way up the Ben, all but the middle section on Scafell (up top if we hadn't have kept running we'd have died) and pretty much all the way up Snowdon. Not hard though. My biggest achievement was wearing shorts on every mountain, including an exceptionally painful time on Scafell - I had to put on an emergency third glove for willy warming purposesOriginally Posted by Al Fowler
Crickey bobs....looked ace though.
Third glove..... Good idea.
My times shown above are based on a walkers group (like your sainsbury group). I ended up carrying 3 rucsac at one point to keep to schedule
too much driving in it for me to make it fun. I'd rather do 5 hills in Scotland
either way thats a good time Stolly, how long did it take you just on the hill?
I only timed Ben Nevis which was just under 3 hours. Could have easily gone up quicker too. Scafell and Snowdon together might have been another 4.5 but the weather on Scafell was so bad (read fantastically good in a bad way... that was good) that I didn't think of timing it and therefore didn't bother timing Snowdon either. Like I said our run up Snowdon had to start right at the bottom of the hill too, although we did stop the clock at Pen y Pass at the finish.
I might come back to fill in the gap
Last edited by Stolly; 12-08-2009 at 09:20 AM.
Okay I'm going to try and give this another go
11th August 2009 - an awesome run out of Horton, past Horton Scar to Hull Pot, a diagonal from there following the trail in the direction of Foxup before hacking up the side of Plover Hill. I then ran the whales back of a ridge line through the bogs to the trig on Pen y Ghent before plumetting down the fantastic descent from there, making a bee line for Hull Pot. Then I scooted over Whitber Hill and took a fairly unused track all the way to the Pennine Way track that brought back into Horton, right by the pub funnily enough!
Maybe 8 or 9 miles and getting on for 1,800 feet. In 1 hour and 36 minutes.
This sign looks like its been there forever, it says Warning Deep Bog. Nothing new there but you have to wonder at the randomness of it - completely in the middle of nowhere, with getting on for 50 square miles of boggy moorland all around. Why just the one sign and why bother, really?
One of the best descents ever all laid out before me. A long curving loop off of Pen y Ghent avoiding virtually all the crap and rubble of the Pennine Way, aiming for Hull Pot (just off picture beyond the small pool in the mid distance on the left).
Looking back from the top of Whitber Hill:
Last edited by Stolly; 12-08-2009 at 06:45 PM.
Nice one Stolly
Time sounds good for "Just a Training run", want extra info like the Grid Ref for the sign
SD838757 I think... want extra info like the Grid Ref for the sign
Cheers Stolly
Will have a look for that next time I am in thearea
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