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just doodling: June 2009
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It's what I do. Alaskan adventures: Part 3, Hallucinations on the glacier. The route was the stuff of dreams. Steep solid granite walls, separated. Linked together by narrows ribbons of ice. What we hoped to be 'easy' early pitches turned out to be hard, brittle steep ice, or thin ice and mixed like Tony on the Twin Runnels, above. The obvious rock feature above is 'The Prow' the crux of the first rock band. Of bringing such a strong rope gun as Tony to dispatch. Hard We are being made to work for this.
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures: July 2010
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures. We're now back in New Zealand. We'll try to put some of our more interesting adventures up here - if we're not too busy doing fun stuff! Monday, July 19, 2010. Queen's Birthday Weekend Tramp to Swamp Swamp. It was a while ago now, but at Queen's Birthday weekend Sylvia and I headed up north to the 'Naki to go tramping and check out a part of the country we hadn't really spent any time in before. There were lots of boardwalks and ladders. Including some natural ones. This is ...
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures: January 2011
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures. We're now back in New Zealand. We'll try to put some of our more interesting adventures up here - if we're not too busy doing fun stuff! Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Between Christmas and New Year, Sylvia and I went tramping for four days with Neil and Frances. Due to continuing strong westerlies we decided to go tramping as far eastwards as possible - which turned out to be the Seaward Kaikouras. There were also several historic huts. The route we followed for the first t...
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures: June 2010
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Mark and Sylvia's Adventures. We're now back in New Zealand. We'll try to put some of our more interesting adventures up here - if we're not too busy doing fun stuff! Saturday, June 26, 2010. From Fish to Water. Everyone knows the time-old tradition of blaming the person who has left for everything that goes wrong so I thought a little bit of culinary bribery would go a long way to offsetting this. I decided on an Orange Roughy cake:. Saturday, June 12, 2010. We both got a bit nauseous after a while, it ...
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just doodling: February 2011
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It's what I do. I have enjoyed plenty of snow around the festive period. Eoin and I went on a walk [trudge more like] in the Pentland Hills south of the city. It's mostly gone now and things are starting to feel a bit like Spring. there's hope for me! I am travelling to NZ next month to see my family and meet my new nephew, Kahu. Hopefully I'll catch the end of some actual Summer weather as well! A natural poser (Oct 2010). Kahu smiles (11 weeks). See you fellas real soon! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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just doodling: Snowy Winter
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It's what I do. I have enjoyed plenty of snow around the festive period. Eoin and I went on a walk [trudge more like] in the Pentland Hills south of the city. It's mostly gone now and things are starting to feel a bit like Spring. there's hope for me! I am travelling to NZ next month to see my family and meet my new nephew, Kahu. Hopefully I'll catch the end of some actual Summer weather as well! A natural poser (Oct 2010). Kahu smiles (11 weeks). See you fellas real soon! Like the new look to the blog!
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just doodling: I would cycle 220-odd miles...
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It's what I do. I would cycle 220-odd miles. Have you ever seen 135 cyclists on the road at once? It's lycra-tastic I can tell you and I was fortunate enough to be one of the few women in this cycle challenge, organised by BAE systems in June. We embarked on a tour of the western islands of Scotland weaving in and out of Arran, Kintyre Penninsula, Bute, Islay and the mainland for 4 days. We had incredible luck with the weather and only one really bad patch of midges! To Arthritis Research UK.
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just doodling: July 2009
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It's what I do. Alaskan adventures: Part 4, A Dingy Glow. As keen as we were to jump straight on another big route, a storm forecast for a couple of days, and the occasional ‘cloud of death’ tempered our enthusiasm, whereas the blue skies and sunshine we kept getting did wonders for our tans. For acclimatisation. Well mostly just to shut me up) we went for a ski up the West Buttress route on. We also kept seeing streams of people heading up that way from basecamp. So we get back down to basecamp. Coming ...
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just doodling: February 2010
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It's what I do. Fun in the snow. After our week in the sun, luckily Edinburgh was still frozen and there was still lots of fun to be had. I got out into the hills several weekends in a row climbing. But what made this really special was when you could do it right in your backyard. Climbing on the crags above Edinburgh. I could see my house from the top! Although on the other side of the hill, you felt like you could be just anywhere. Just magic. Sunshine and steep rock bliss. Ginger Jo doing awesome.
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just doodling: August 2010
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It's what I do. I would cycle 220-odd miles. Have you ever seen 135 cyclists on the road at once? It's lycra-tastic I can tell you and I was fortunate enough to be one of the few women in this cycle challenge, organised by BAE systems in June. We embarked on a tour of the western islands of Scotland weaving in and out of Arran, Kintyre Penninsula, Bute, Islay and the mainland for 4 days. We had incredible luck with the weather and only one really bad patch of midges! To Arthritis Research UK.
