tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post7381748473370397196..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Fellow travellers?Sir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-63119986448896405402017-01-12T22:30:03.174+00:002017-01-12T22:30:03.174+00:00Due to poor preparation on my part a friend and I ...Due to poor preparation on my part a friend and I had to navigate on Lugnaquilla with an All-Ireland road map. Not very clever, but we survived. We've since debated taking an inflatable globe into the hills, in much the same way you were thinking of taking a tea towel. I think the strangest conversations I've had have been with people I've met in bothies, or with people who have picked me up when I was hitch-hiking. The dull, inescapable conversations tend to happen in youth hostels or on trains, where it can be difficult to escape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-288905640554178852017-01-06T20:36:20.078+00:002017-01-06T20:36:20.078+00:00BC - Thanks for the tea towel. I just hope I don&#...BC - Thanks for the tea towel. I just hope I don't repeat it again to you n the future.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-10040365181160203872017-01-06T18:39:41.300+00:002017-01-06T18:39:41.300+00:00Nice post Conrad. Happy New Year.
It was possibly ...Nice post Conrad. Happy New Year.<br />It was possibly me who gave you the idea of the 'tea towel' - always wanted to do the same but never had the courage to pull it off. Just imagine the embarrassment when located by the mountain rescue people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-6626738038480767882017-01-06T17:29:06.857+00:002017-01-06T17:29:06.857+00:00I love the tea towel idea - definitely better than...I love the tea towel idea - definitely better than paper in rain and high wind - shame about the rather blurred contour lines: we have some old linen backed maps in the 'family' archive - pre-war (II'nd not G) I think - still in excellent condition despite obvious innumerable foldings, soakings - and triumphant 'summitings' no doubt - in tweeds, with nails and pipes, I feel sure.<br />Might well be tempted - maybe when we essay the outflanking of the Mickle Fell enceinte in high summer: plenty of ways of going wrong up there with plenty of people about to ask . . . I'm sure there will be a NPAONB tea towel on sale somewhere - or even a silken issue tightly folded inside a false straw in case of landing in forbidden zones . . . one could go on . . .gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-68739812355545607712017-01-06T16:23:30.739+00:002017-01-06T16:23:30.739+00:00Gayle - fortunately I've been on Tarmachan and...Gayle - fortunately I've been on Tarmachan and Lawers without conscious confusion. Both seemed to have much longer return routes than the outgoing.<br />Do you think a tea towel map would be better than a paper one in wet weather?Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-4130379963600603392017-01-06T14:19:33.193+00:002017-01-06T14:19:33.193+00:00I think I've met all of those people at some t...I think I've met all of those people at some time, except for the last one (because I've never done a significant circular walk). My favourite comparable experience has got to be the two chaps we met atop Meall nan Tarmachan who not only believed that they were on Ben Lawers, but had been up there three times previously and had believed they were on Ben Lawers every time. <br /><br />Love your idea of the tea-towel spoof!Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08648378503343413924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-12209757125624100602017-01-06T11:10:20.481+00:002017-01-06T11:10:20.481+00:00gimmer - I once fantasised with someone (can't...gimmer - I once fantasised with someone (can't remember who) of doing a spoof and taking one of those tea towels depicting a map of The Lakes and asking some obviously gung-ho, clued up, super walker to show us where we are on the map and ask which is the best way to Scafell. Are you sure your Crinkles guy wasn't sporting a Lake District tea towel?Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-76848318279738640872017-01-06T10:54:21.835+00:002017-01-06T10:54:21.835+00:00nice - brighten up a dull Friday morn
my favourite...nice - brighten up a dull Friday morn<br />my favourite - but not funny - was on the Crinkles going towards Bowfell in thick fog/cloud/drizzle - in good light one does not really notice the twists and turns and up and downs of this fine but broad and easy ridge:<br />' where are you going?' (lone walker with map - years before ubiquitous GPS etc.)<br />'to Three Tarns and Bowfell'<br />'you are going the wrong way'<br />'I dont think so'<br />'see, we are here' - pointing to a seriously wrong point - 'you need to go that way' - pointing due east down to the edge and, presumably, over into Crinkle Gill or other similar cleft<br />'i dont think so - that is the best way' - the way we were going<br />'you will end up here if you do' - pointing out Crinkle Gill and the cliff edges in the map<br />'sorry, but I am pretty sure you are wrong and we are right'<br />'ok - have it your way' and down he went<br />we were right - I too often wonder what happened to him - no LMRT call out recorded - maybe still up theregimmernoreply@blogger.com