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mike knipe

mike knipe

Retired with a UK government pension. I'm English, in England. I do hillwalking, mine exploration, industrial archeology, a bit of botany , some caving and some splashing around in rivers. Then I write drivel about it.
I'm not entirely sure how I got here.
Story of my life, really...

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OutdoorBlips Member since June 30, 2009

Chance Meetings Up The Deerness
northernpies.blogspot.com - 38 hours ago
Chance Meetings Up The Deerness
— northernpies.blogspot.com —   Time to let bygones be bygones and put all thoughts of timber extraction and disposal into... the past as so much water under the bridge – and go for a walk. Today’s trundle was pretty much decided by the fact that the knipemobile has no petrol in it and the pension isn’t paid into my ... (more) Chance Meetings Up The Deerness

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Is it me?
northernpies.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
Is it me?
— northernpies.blogspot.com — This is a warning. A rant is about to happen. There is very bad language. If you... don’t like bad language, then don’t read this rant. And another thing – all comments have to be moderated by me. This is not a democracy. If I don’t like what you’re saying, it won’t get published, so you might ... (more) Is it me?

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Howgills – Green Bell and Randygill Top
northernpies.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
Howgills – Green Bell and Randygill Top
— northernpies.blogspot.com — Yet another walk in the series of Yorkshire dales 2000 foot tops. This top being the one... at the top of Randygill. And let’s be honest, there’s not much thats all that randy about Randygill Top. We should just clear that up before we start. Before we start on Randygill Top, as it happens, ... (more) Howgills – Green Bell and Randygill Top

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Its all downhill from here
northernpies.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
Its all downhill from here
— northernpies.blogspot.com — It seemed like a perfect plan. We would leave a car at the bottom of the hill,... drive another car to the top, sledge down and retrieve car number one after a long descent of 1800 metres horizontal (er….tilted…) and 150 metres vertical (ish) The maths should have told us it wasn’t really ... (more) Its all downhill from here

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The Greenburn Horseshoe
northernpies.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
The Greenburn Horseshoe
— northernpies.blogspot.com — Martin continues to collect his collection of Bill Birketts Great British Ridge Walks and so, me and... superdawg met Martin and Graham at a  slippery Little Langdale quite close to the phone box. This walk was arranged immediately after the Littledale Horseshoe walk, so maybe the ... (more) The Greenburn Horseshoe

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Teesdale – Moking Hurth and High Force
northernpies.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
Teesdale – Moking Hurth and High Force
— northernpies.blogspot.com — My plan for today – up until last night anyway , was to go and bag Penyghent... and Plover Hill as part of the Yorkshire Dales 2000 foot tops thing. The weather forecast was a bit borderline for the Dales, specially late in the day, and I didn’t have any change for the pay and display, ... (more) Teesdale – Moking Hurth and High Force

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A visit to HMS Ark Royal and some Geordie stuff
northernpies.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
A visit to HMS Ark Royal and some Geordie stuff
— northernpies.blogspot.com — This was Brian’s idea. He turned up this morning along with Charlie and we hurtled off to... South Shields to have a look at the Ark Royal which had an open day today before receiving some aircraft at sea tomorrow. Unfortunately, the ship was parked in North Shields, so, after some ... (more) A visit to HMS Ark Royal and some Geordie stuff

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Jeremiah Dixon – A Celebration
northernpies.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
Jeremiah Dixon – A Celebration
— northernpies.blogspot.com — Really really ardent readers of this blog will, no doubt be able to easily bring to mind... my series of celebratory flapjack cakes – There was the Arsenal cake, The ode to TV chef Fanny Craddock and so on. And so, I determined that it was about time for another cake. this time, I chose the ... (more) Jeremiah Dixon – A Celebration

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Get Carter Coast
northernpies.blogspot.com - 14 days ago
Get Carter Coast
— northernpies.blogspot.com — My Get Fit for the TGO Challenge plan says that at some point in February, I should... walk 15 miles, so for somewhere new to go, I decided to have this little trundle down the Durham coast path – based on the theory that if I walked  seven and a half miles in one direction, I could ... (more) Get Carter Coast

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Cockup Collection Incomplete
northernpies.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
Cockup Collection Incomplete
— northernpies.blogspot.com —   Or Bijoux Birkett Bagging Back O’ Skidda Immediately following a TV News report of people carried... off by an avalanche in Cumbria was perhaps not the ideal time to tell the wife that I was off to the Lake District in the morning. During the evening, I was struck by an ... (more) Cockup Collection Incomplete

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The decrepit leading the blind up Calf Top
northernpies.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
The decrepit leading the blind up Calf Top
— northernpies.blogspot.com —   A family car with a contingent of John  Robinson’s family arrived at the appointed place in... a layby near Barbon this morning. John’s family went off to do a spot of walking around Sedbergh, leaving him in my tender care for the day. John is blind and a hillwalker and has his ... (more) The decrepit leading the blind up Calf Top

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Little Dale Horseshoe
northernpies.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
Little Dale Horseshoe
— northernpies.blogspot.com — I let Bruno drive to the Lakes this morning as I was still a bit tired from... the wife’s Uncle Joe’s funeral yesterday. he’s quite good and he does mirror-signal-manoeuvre, but not in that order… Anyway, I put him in the back at the Threlkeld roadworks and we arrived at the appointed spot ... (more) Little Dale Horseshoe

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Nine Standards Rigg
northernpies.blogspot.com - 25 days ago
Nine Standards Rigg
— northernpies.blogspot.com — This was yet another – even, yet another (!) walk in the series of walks bagging the... Yorkshire Dales 2000 foot tops – even though most of this one is in Westmorland – or Cumbria, if you’re into the modern post 1974 stuff…. We parked freely by Kirkby Stephen Cattle Mart, pausing only ... (more) Nine Standards Rigg

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Things We Found Today
northernpies.blogspot.com - 26 days ago
Things We Found Today
— northernpies.blogspot.com —   Today was the second working party day at Barnard Castle. Around eight of us attacked some... defenceless shrubbery in a kind of amphitheatres which may well once have been part of Barnard Castle’s gasworks, when they sue to make the stuff from coal and people could kill themselves ... (more) Things We Found Today

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Revolutionary sleeping bag filler material
northernpies.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
Revolutionary sleeping bag filler material
— northernpies.blogspot.com —   What you do, apparently, is empty out the down filling from your sleeping bag and fill... it with this stuff. I am reliably informed by Someone In The Know, that it will keep you warm down to about minus twenty five although some users have complained about the filling “moving” about in ... (more) Revolutionary sleeping bag filler material

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