On Thursday (2/10) we did Ingleborough and Whernside. The next day we did Pen-y-ghent. I am full of admiration for those who manage all three in one day ('all those' include my sister-in-law - respect).
Our Thursday walk Julie were joined by Richard Morgan, a 65 year old walker who became our guide for the day, leading us down from fog bound Ingleborough across Simon's fell and Peak Fell and onwards. Julie and I were running to keep up with Him at times and one time I could have sworn he walked on water... And all the sustenance he appeared to take on board during the 15 miles was 2 pieces of cake and a pint of beer. (Julie is currently waiting to see if a picture we took of Richard comes out or if he was just a figment of our imagination!). Whilst walking Richard also informed us he had a goal of walking (or 'bagging' as I have now read on Internet) the 500 Munros in Scotland: he had 50 to go...
The next day we briefly chatted to a 69 year old, who again we would have struggled to keep with.
Walks/ countryside inspired me to:
- Have a go at 3 peaks race - as part of training for Norseman
- Buy some fell running shoes
- Go walking more often
3 comments:
It sounds like you have entered yet another parallel universe, I am glad you managed to return in one piece, it must take at least 60 years to bag the munros?
Apparently not, one website I was looking at this evening http://www.stevenfallon.co.uk/trail1.html indicated that the gentleman had done them in 10 months and had already done the whole lot 13 times (there may be some clarification required here as my and Julie's guide referred to 500 Munros but on websites it is 'only' referring to there are 284 Munros and a further 227 'Tops' http://walking.visitscotland.com/munros/.
On the subject of parallel universes there are websites on 'naked munro bagging' and 'virtual munro bagging'.
But not virtual naked munro bagging, there is an opening there.
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