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This was a very long day. I ended up walking over 23 miles and 4000ft of ascent in over 10 hours out on the trail. Started off with the descent into Briançon making me thankful I hadnt attempted it the previous night as it took nearly 2 hours and i guess it would have taken […]
This was a very long day. I ended up walking over 23 miles and 4000ft of ascent in over 10 hours out on the trail. Started off with the descent into Briançon making me thankful I hadnt attempted it the previous night as it took nearly 2 hours and i guess it would have taken […]
Chris left me an email in his usual very positive tone reminding me that we had only one day of rain on the PW. So I left Modane yesterday to find that my head quickly becoming enveloped in thick cloud and dampness. However, arriving at Col de la Vallée Étroite at 8000ft I was confronted […]
Today the weather broke and I walked in rain all day to Modane , 17 miles in less than 6 hours with only one stop. The going was easy on the GR5E with only about 500ft or so of climbs all day from Lanslevillard. I kept reasonably dry, the Scarpa boots kept my feet really […]
Made it to Val D’Isére today on my 9th walking day from St Gingolph on Lake Geneva. The new Scarpa boots I bought in Chamonix en-route are great, my heel blisters caused by the Raichle boots I bought in Cambridge have now disappeared. The vertical ascents on this route are amazing. My prediction is it […]
Here is the summary of the first two days walk that I propose starting on Saturday. I intend to follow the GR5 from St. Gingolph on Lake Geneva to Nice. I’m using , for the first time the memory-map software [Important the Alpes version MMV5/IGN/PE/MB388/CI is faulty call 01189062600 to get a version that has Geneva […]
Here is Em really jubilant at her excellent GCSE results. She managed 7 A* and 4 A’s. I’m a really proud dad today. All of her friends also did well, interestingly her friends who went to Parkside did exactly as well as her friends at The Perse, and apparently Joe from Parkside received a letter of commendation, been […]
Just under a year ago I organised the Our Social World conference here in Cambridge, UK. One of the cool things that Adrian kindly did for us was a river of news feeds that was displayed on the projector. This displayed all mentions of the conference, including all the delegates, and also since we are […]
For any of you out there who might be struggling, like I was, to locate the instruction book/manual for the MD5909 DECT phone that Aldi sells. It can be found here. In fact the problem was a duff base station that rang with incoming calls but non of the remote phones could answer 🙁 I […]
Thanks to Old-faithful Wolf from the MKP for this inspiring quote:-From the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz: 1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction […]