Walks
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My second camino
Today sally and I start on the pilgrimage Via de la Plata from Seville to Santiago about 1000km and with 16km of vertical height gain ( and 16km descent). Sally only gets the first week due to her work & domestic commitments. I was hoping for 5 weeks so I could meet up with Em…
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EverTrail on the iPhone
Another day another new iPhone application. Today it was EveryTrail. In the past I used my Garmin Etrex as a GPS and a regular camera, by fiddling with LoadMyTracks, HoudahGeo and Flickr I managed to upload my walks to Everytrail. Today it all changed 🙂 Here is my test walk around Cambridge with the iPhone:-…
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A day in the country…
Vera from the Cambridge Rambling Club organised an excellent ‘A’ rated walk on Sunday for 13 of us keen ramblers, A 15 mile circular trip from Grantchester to Toft. Sally and I added on a 5mile trip to get there from Cambridge! Here is the route with photos:- Cambridge Ramblers – Toft Walk Widget powered…
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Hell of a walk
One of my ambitions since getting my apartment in Les Gets has been to snow shoe walk up and board down the impressive Roc d’Enfer (2200m) which you can see from the top of my favourite hill, Mont Chery. Last week with Sally and Ray we explored Roc d’Enfer (nb. Enfer is the French word…
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No Problem in Ely
A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought 🙂 Ely Area Circular Walk – Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”. I have been following there travels around the English…
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South Cambridge village walk
Todays walk in splendid conditions, the first hot weather of the year 🙂 was a good stretch. Totalling about 21 miles with one pint of shandy (Queens Head, Newton) and tea and cakes at The Orchard in Grantchester. Followed by a very quick dip in the river at NRC, I did our first mash using…
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Wednesday’s Nar walk
Sally and I went for a walk to explore the Nar valley from the River Nars mouth in Kings Lynn to Narborough. Of course, the Nar Valley is where I first met Sally in October 2006. and the walk took as to the halfway stage of that fateful day. Here is the wikiloc trace of…
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Winter stroll
After Em’s 18th birthday festivities we managed a late start for our first Cambridge walk of 2008 this morning in glorious sunshine. We set off (with no provisions rucksacs etc) along Grantchester meadows snapped a couple of fine pictures of the church, although the clock is working now 🙁 The Rupert Brook pub sign however,…
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Free those maps
Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps. The aim of…
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60 year old walks across the Alps on the GR5 trail
More interesting statistics from my GR5 walk across The Alps last year:- GR5 Data from Memory Map Date Place Ascent (m) Descent (m) Distance (km) Time Av.Gradient 02/09/06 Saint Gingolph 03/09/06 La Chapelle 1929 1306 14.9 05:53 22% 04/09/06 De Chesery 1750 764 17.5 06:04 14% 05/09/06 Samoen 500 1700 19.8 11% 06/09/06 Les Gets…