Backpacks and blisters - the walking thread

[Moonlight Shadow]

Splendid stuff Cal!

[ad hoc]

Got a bit wintry

[jameswba]

Much better to belooking at these than banging on about VAR in the football forum. Beautiful - and you have a good sprinkling of snow. Our mountains seem to have too.

We were out for a walk yesterday, but not up high. I think there are snowcaps visible in the distance.

[Moonlight Shadow]

Lucky man Andy, nothing but mud here....

[Sits]

Once again, beautiful stuff.

ad hoc are those local yobbos doing a bloody snowman then?

[jameswba]

Went up Klak today, the southernmost main peak in the Mala Fatra. The cloud refused to lift all day, but walking up through gently falling snow was pleasant enough. Nothing visible on the top except the ever-reassuring summit sign, a few ghostly-looking rocks and one or two other rosy-faced hikers. A waterfall on the way down was the visual highlight.

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[Moonlight Shadow]

That looks like a good wintry walk!

Mini-break booked in Cumbria for mid-December, fingers crossed I have some decent weather. Short drive from Coniston, might take the missus up Wetherlam, an excellent and quietish hill.

[jameswba]

Look forward to seeing some pictures from that, MS. Hope you get some views.

[Paul S]

I'm back on the South West Coast Path walking from Falmouth to Wembury. Yesterday I arrived in Truro by sleeper train and went to get the ferry from Falmouth to St Mawes only to discover it was cancelled for the day due to a broken water pump. So I took a train and bus to Porthscatho where I picked up the path from there.

This morning walking from Portholland I took an inland route to due 50mph winds and heavy rain and this evening I am in Charlestown for the night which is absolutely delightful. The harbour at Charlestown :

[Sporting]

Lovely, Paul. Are you in a hotel now?

[Paul S]

Yes but getting a pint is difficult as everyone is ordering food.

[San Bernardhinault]

I hope we're all singing "Paul S is going to Wembury, his knees have gone all trembly"

[Paul S]

It's a nice idea but I'm to tired to go down the pub at the moment.

[Sits]

Paul S is that the Bay View Hotel? I recognise the angle of your view. Stayed there many times.

Get your pint from the Rashleigh Arms one block up the hill. St. Austell Ales, or it used to be.

Between ages 6 and 16 we had our summer holidays in Charlestown as my Dad’s old work mate ran the sub Post Office and stores (before that the Spar - as was - across the road from the pub). It was like a second home and I had mates there, I would return to Berkshire with a bit of an accent.

Now of course it’s Poldark-ville.

In The Eagle Has Landed (spoilers) Donald Sutherland gets thrown out of the window of the Pier House Hotel (the white one down on the right with the big carriage lamp) and Robert Duvall gets shot by a firing squad down on the beach.

[Sits]

And finally, just out of shot on the right, where the cliff path climbs away from the harbour, there’s an iron kiss gate. To the left are the remains of an old 18th or 19th Century battery wall. My brother and I scattered my Dad’s ashes there in 1998. And in 2018 my wife, my daughter and I scattered my brother’s there too.

[Paul S]

The cliff path between the harbour and the battery is closed due to a landslip meaning a mile long diversion on the roads. Not pleasant.

[Sits]

That’s a bloody long way round.

[Paul S]

I had forgotten what a beautiful city Plymouth is, seen here from above Millbrook with my shadow in the way.

[Sits]

More beautiful from that distance I reckon. So is that the end of a stage for you Paul, with Cornwall behind you?

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