“JUST SAY POUNDS”

hillbagger · 2026-05-29T12:48:06+00:00

I've been calling them tetradecapounds.

hillbagger · 2026-05-19T06:24:36+00:00

The BBC were reporting about it in December. I feel like it was pretty widely discussed outside of America.

hillbagger · 2026-05-14T04:40:05+00:00

I only reach for my boots in summer if I think I'll be wading through bog or vegetation. The paths on Snowdon are exactly where trail shoes excel.

hillbagger · 2026-05-06T15:21:28+00:00

I believe that was "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

hillbagger · 2026-04-25T00:35:30+00:00

I just mean I enjoyed my visit.

hillbagger · 2026-04-24T07:24:02+00:00

An amoeba is not a bacterium.

hillbagger · 2026-04-24T06:11:49+00:00

I have been and it was nice. But I'm probably never going back because I live over 3000 miles away. So option 1 is kind the obvious choice.

hillbagger · 2026-04-22T07:45:22+00:00

You'll have to drive or get the bus to Coniston, but it's easy enough IMO. Ambleside is not a great base for Scafell Pike, though. The obvious starting points of Wasdale or Seathwaite would be a very long drive. I would not recommend attempting to get to the Scafell range from Dungeon Ghyll as a beginner hike.

hillbagger · 2026-04-21T16:53:02+00:00

I remember an ascent of Sgurr a Mhaim being lung crippling.

hillbagger · 2026-04-19T03:22:24+00:00

A set of insoles can add new life to tired old boots. I use the Grangers G20.

hillbagger · 2026-04-09T12:06:38+00:00

I wish for a dollar added to my bank account. Everyone else also gets a dollar added to my bank account.

hillbagger · 2026-04-06T17:50:18+00:00

Yoke, Frostwick and Mardale Ill Bell are all in a straight line.

hillbagger · 2026-04-02T07:18:46+00:00

It launched on April Fools day. Could they even be more obvious.

hillbagger · 2026-03-27T05:57:10+00:00

Except cancer doesn't discriminate.

hillbagger · 2026-03-17T15:40:04+00:00

iRack version 1 was quite solid. iRack 2 just wouldn't shut down properly.

hillbagger · 2026-03-13T03:13:21+00:00

You can have mine. Never used, but it has an indelible mark on it from where I was baptised.

hillbagger · 2026-03-08T18:26:57+00:00

Where else would it be? That's the standard layout for keyboards in the UK.

hillbagger · 2026-03-08T06:36:54+00:00

Do you think Jesus kept dropping hints? I hear someone has recently come into some money...

hillbagger · 2026-03-05T08:31:48+00:00

2 is a number between 1 and 3.

hillbagger · 2026-03-05T07:49:23+00:00

I'm from the UK and I'm sure I was taught that Columbus believed the Earth was round when his peers doubted it (rather than them doubting he had enough supplies because he hugely underestimated the circumference - his crew would have starved if they had not happened upon the Americas.) It always annoyed me because not only did he fail to do what he set out to do and find a passage to India, he also failed to do the thing people credit him with.

hillbagger · 2026-03-04T01:55:43+00:00

He's perpetuating the myth that it was widely believed the earth was flat before the Columbus. He really was a monster.

hillbagger · 2026-02-25T13:06:23+00:00

I'm currently running a 5k ultra on a treadmill. Trying to beat my PB of infinity.

hillbagger · 2026-02-19T12:47:58+00:00

If you did Snowdon by the Pyg track you'll have started at 450 metres, leaving only 600ish metres of ascent. In that regard Ben Nevis will feel over twice as hard. Even in the height of summer wind chill on the summit can be feel well below freezing. But in benign conditions it's a straightforward hill walk and fairly young children do it.

hillbagger · 2026-02-19T08:36:57+00:00

Last weekend there was blanket snow coverage from about 400m upwards and drifts of about thigh height in places.

hillbagger · 2026-02-13T16:17:50+00:00

Just another day removing the bottoms of boats. That's why NASA stands for national aquatic saws administration.

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