Bx Angelsey camp in spring? Proposed W/E 30th April

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:03 pm

Best done in good weather...

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:05 pm

'twas a jokette, though

Post by **Defender110** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:15 pm

I'll be giving that a miss

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:22 pm

Why's that then? It's not so bad without all the ice!

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:30 am

mat_fenwick wrote:Why's that then? It's not so bad without all the ice!

Good grief!!!!

I'd have thought the ice and subzero temperatures would have a pleasantly anaesthetising effect on all the lacerations you'd collect while poncing about on razor sharp crags like that! Not to mention the fact that, when the will to live finally ebbs away, you can just lie down and do the fishfinger thing, hopefully drifting away to somewhere where your mates don't want to drag you up ruddy great piles of rock.

The concept of getting pleasure from climbing up ginormous mountains "just 'cos they're there" has always successfully eluded me, thank goodness. In Bobworld, we're all perfectly adequately equipped to go and bonk a gorilla if we decided it was a good idea - but that doesn't mean we all have to troop off and try it for fun!

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:50 am

Nobody fancies the Horseshoe trail then?

It looks good Vanny

from my perspective there are a number of 'buts'.

I've done PYG / miners twice before so in a way I'll be re-living pleasant memories etc - might be something to do in the future if my hip holds out or if I get a stst jobby (anyone know the part number

) though if I tried the Horseshoe at the moment I suspect that my right leg would fall off the mountain a couple of minutes before the rest of me. If I'm going up the PYG and the hip starts playing up it's easy to hang a left and get onto the Miners track.

Anyone that volunteers to do that kind of thing for no good reason needs a healthy dose of close-in phrenology IMHO!

There's a part of me that's inclined to agree - using the Horseshoe
Trail just to walk up the mountain is a bit like going out of the bedroom window and shinning down the drainpipe just to go to Sainsburys

Can we have a "Drinking beer lying down" competition?

Will I get disqualified for drinking red wine ?

I get the feeling I wouldn't win this one anyway

we're all perfectly adequately equipped to go and bonk a gorilla if we decided it was a good idea

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of lateral thinking - I just think it's a good idea to place limits on it sometimes

There is a nice view from the top - especially if it's one of the 14 days each year that the summit is free of cloud

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:23 am

electrokid wrote:Will I get disqualified for drinking red wine ? I get the feeling I wouldn't win this one anyway

I'll probably be on the red wine too...although not whilst lying down, at least not for the first 10 minutes anyway.

Post by **Defender110** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:42 pm

mat_fenwick wrote:Why's that then? It's not so bad without all the ice!

I think it may be something to do with my natural survival instinct

kermit the frog · Post by **kermit the frog** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:47 pm

I might be up for it but would i be allowed in a xantia as the green hornet wont be ready.

Kermit/ Phil

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:29 pm

Oooooooooh a Xantia, I dunno, next there'll be ZXs everywhere

kermit the frog · Post by **kermit the frog** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:04 pm

PLEASE.
Kermit/Phil

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:20 pm

I'm sure no one would be so anal as to be worried what car you came in. Xantias are just BXs in a heavy overcoat anyway, aren't they?

kermit the frog · Post by **kermit the frog** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:16 pm

Hi
Thanks.
Hopfully the Green Hornet will be done in time as soon as Chris/ Doc gives me the nod on the bits i need to repair it i will be wizzing my way down to pick them up and get cracking.
So i may be threr in a BX after all.

Kermit/Phil

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:02 pm

You could turn up in whatever you want as far as I'm concerned - it's the person that's more important than the car!

kermit the frog · Post by **kermit the frog** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:52 am

Wow
Thanks for that kind word.
If I do get there in whatever, I will bring you a bottle of the finest

i can find (in TESCO's)

Kermit/Phil