Just to let you know the climb was amazing (despite the inflamed hip flexor I gained!) .. and we have so far raised £475.78 for the Animal Health Trust - we also saw some badass mountain rescue fundraisers up at the summit who had been stood in the rain for house.
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I'm on a rest week for my hip now... but seriously was a brilliant weekend :D
@Liam I took my waterproofs but didn't use my coat until the way down - my north face fleece kept off the rain amazingly well (and I was super hot) my trousers were already soaked so no point in me putting my waterproof ones on over the top - but by the time we were half way down I was bone dry! Last time I climbed Snowdon it was much dryer weather, I'm actually thrilled I got to experience some gale winds and rain up there - was fab!
@Aravona Yeah, I like a bit of bad weather! makes you feel like you've achived something.
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Except the time I walked up Glyder Fawr in the pouring rain, bumped into some guys coming down "Alright, how was it?" "Fucking awful I wouldn't bother if I was you".. :(
Got to the top, they were right it was fucking awful. Tramped back down in the pouring rain to a wet camp. Ate some super noodles packed up my tent and drove home.
@Liam we packed up early on Sat and drove home as there were forcasted heavy rains and gale force winds on the Sunday morning - just made sense to pack up early.
But you're right, sometimes the worse the weather the more fun you have... when we hiked up the mountains near Tanygrisiau (Moelwyn mountains) we had rain... then as we got higher we had snow - we stood in the abandoned mining village getting snowed on and we loved it! When we got above the clouds it was beautiful sunshine!
@Liam that article is so true - someone was going up Snowdon in hot pants and a tank top - NOT climbing matieral... My other half and I had a camping stove, tinned food, waterproofs, hats, gloves, scarfs (or in my case a ski mask) all for a one day trek - just in case.
@WedaPashi spam ususally shows a website is doing well so I'm not fussed about those kinda ones - but I'm slowly on my way to the next flagging badge 13/80
@Aravona Yeah I read that the other day. It's getting bad, 4 people killed this year simply by being unprepared
People think that because there is a nice wide path and signs that it's safe. It's not. The weather can close in easily. The BMC is arguing that the signs should be removed.
@Aravona I saw someone climbing the step on Crib coch in flip flops once :O
@Liam ... that's stupid - I did a 4km walk in Italy in flipflops... had to wear my converse for the rest of the holiday (luckily it was a casual one, but lots of walking happened) My own fault and I did no complain even though I had pain - but Lesson Learnt!
@Liam Snowdon is still a mountain, it needs to be taken seriously.
The Swedish skärgård located just west of Gothenburg is a beautiful place. I have been traveling there a couple of times, taking the bus-ferries around between the islands.
There are quite a lot of desserted islands, with some grass and rocks, and sometimes a few animals. I was thinking of the p...
@RoryAlsop @Liam @Aravona: Cheers to England team BTW. Good cricket. Poor cricket from Indians :( I expected better of course. Lets see how they do in ODIs now.
Proposal: On the Water
The Great Outdoors already has 16 questions related to sailing and 12 to boats in general. I'm sure they would welcome more contributions.
Hi @Liam, nice to see you are discussing my question. :) If you have suggestions on how I can improve it, please let me know. Also, I had a hard time finding appropriate tags. There was no sweeden or island or desolate-place tags. Perhaps some of these tags might be relevant to create?
@Liam Maybe not, but deserted sounds like a place people once inhabited but left for some reason. I am not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong. I actually changed the wording in the question to uninhabited, as I think that is more precise.
@BjarkeFreund-Hansen yeah, that makes sense. Desolate is normally used in the context of something unpleasant. Like the "area had been bombed leaving it desolate". It's a little subtle.
@BjarkeFreund-Hansen Your english is better than my sweedish :)
@BjarkeFreund-Hansen I've added a few new tags for you
Tinned beans, or any tinned food that is sealed. Nothing to do with food poisoning, it's because the tins can explode as the pressure builds up.
my experience with cooking straight from a tin isn't to do with pressure - what idiot wouldn't open the tin first? - but more that you cannot circulate the food so it just burns on the bottom. Not really a good way to cook imo, but doubt the tin will explode?!
Proposal: On the Water
The Great Outdoors already has 16 questions related to sailing and 12 to boats in general. I'm sure they would welcome more contributions.
Tinned beans, or any tinned food that is sealed. Nothing to do with food poisoning, it's because the tins can explode as the pressure builds up.
