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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. Web Site: northern pies Claimed Blog: northern pies OutdoorBlips Member since June 30, 2009 |
northernpies.blogspot.com - 38 hours ago
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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 ...
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Chance Meetings Up The Deerness
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northernpies.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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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 ...
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Is it me?
northernpies.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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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, ...
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Howgills – Green Bell and Randygill Top
northernpies.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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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 ...
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Its all downhill from here
northernpies.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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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 ...
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The Greenburn Horseshoe
northernpies.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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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, ...
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Teesdale – Moking Hurth and High Force
northernpies.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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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 ...
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A visit to HMS Ark Royal and some Geordie stuff
northernpies.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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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 ...
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Jeremiah Dixon – A Celebration
northernpies.blogspot.com - 14 days ago
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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 ...
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Get Carter Coast
northernpies.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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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 ...
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Cockup Collection Incomplete
northernpies.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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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 ...
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The decrepit leading the blind up Calf Top
northernpies.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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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 ...
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Little Dale Horseshoe
northernpies.blogspot.com - 25 days ago
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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 ...
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Nine Standards Rigg
northernpies.blogspot.com - 26 days ago
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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 ...
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Things We Found Today
northernpies.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
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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 ...
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Revolutionary sleeping bag filler material














