tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post3205973121350136188..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: The Invasion of BarbonSir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-87231325082757490032018-08-03T08:14:05.424+01:002018-08-03T08:14:05.424+01:00I picked on that because in that sentence you used...I picked on that because in that sentence you used "walking" in a way that implied only the walking you do, ignoring the walking - a humdrum, day-to-day form of locomotion - most of us do. Those kids may not have done LEJOG (horrible acronym which undermines the concept since it hints that it's done at a trot) but they have walked. I suggested you're not entitled to use the word on its own, unqualified, since your idea of walking is a minority view. I walk to Tesco, you engage in something quite different when you strike out for distant B&Bs there to eat cake.<br /><br />Given your admission about "backpacking" you might have used "zero backpacking experience". As it is you seem to suggest the kids have made do with some other means of getting about, slithering along like snakes, perhaps.<br /><br />Was I that obscure?Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-27069436610676340812018-08-02T13:00:52.949+01:002018-08-02T13:00:52.949+01:00RR - why shoul you pick on that? I was only pointi...RR - why shoul you pick on that? I was only pointing out a potential problem - like putting a non driver in a car and expecting them to drive straightaway. I don't like either rambling or hiking. The former creates an image of a 1930s guy, smoking a pipe, wearing plus-fours snd a tweed jacket and carrying a haversack (another word that sounds soppy to me). The latter sounds too frenetic. I tend to talk about backpacking for a long walk, and perhaps day walk for days.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-14518107326478430982018-07-30T16:30:54.587+01:002018-07-30T16:30:54.587+01:00"zero walking experience". As if you and..."zero walking experience". As if you and your mates had a monopoly on the word and anyone else who dared to do it without Primus stoves, ice-axes, smartphones, compasses, etc, etc, hadn't got the hang of it. Mind you although "hike" (assuming I've got the meaning right) is surely closer to what you do, I can see why you might not care to adopt it. The origin sounds North American but the word has been further corrupted as a synonym for "raise" (eg, price-hikes).<br /><br />"Rambling" sounds directionless. Perhaps "forcing on" is more to your taste. But you must remember your lot are in the minority, it's you who need the qualifier, not the unmuscular people like me who, when it comes to locomotion, are "doing the best they can" (Damon Runyan).Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-77882979587264123122018-07-22T08:22:03.935+01:002018-07-22T08:22:03.935+01:00BC - I guess they would only just have set off fro...BC - I guess they would only just have set off from the school at that point. 21k seems quite a challenge for many young kids who probably have zero walking experience.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-1453051601662496412018-07-21T15:02:32.918+01:002018-07-21T15:02:32.918+01:00That's a coincidence.
When we walked the Limes...That's a coincidence.<br />When we walked the Limestone Link from K.Lonsdale to Arnside in July 2015 we must have picked the same day as the school's annual walk. There were hundreds of them down by the Devil's Bridge, fortunately going a separate way to us. https://wordpress.com/post/bowlandclimber.com/6288<br />We met you in the Albion at the end.bowlandclimberhttp://bowlandclimber.comnoreply@blogger.com