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From Church Beck
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From La Marmotte
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From Bourg d'Oisans
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From Vosges
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From BMC AGM Thoughts
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From Couple of Days of Work & a Big "Pikey Dodging" Cycle Ride
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From More awesome Bank Holiday weather
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From Awesome Multi-Activity Weather in the Lakes
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From The National Trust; For ever, for everyone
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Yesterday was fun… I don’t often post about work, who wants to read anything about work, that’s boring! But yesterday was particularly good fun taking an extended family and some of their friends up Church Beck in Coniston.
My training plan for the Marmotte had gone badly! The plan to start getting fit for a serious attempt at going around the 174km course as fast as I was able was stopped dead in its tracks just when it was supposed to really get going after Xmas 2017. A couple of months later (after …
We arrived in Bourg d’Oisans literally just as Rachel had been involved in a crash with a car! I was driving down the main street in to town and there, sprawled on the road, was a bloodied Rachel looking totally dazed and surrounded by people…
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
I’ve never written anything quite like this before so bear with me for the ride… June 2018 was a tough AGM for the BMC The BMC has been going through a tough time for the past 24 or so months and because of that the 2018 AGM, held in Kendal on 16th June, was perhaps …
The weekend was dominated by two days of work, but at least it was fun work – mostly gorge bashing with super exciting big jumps in to pools of lovely cool Lakeland water…
While the south of England is cloaked in fog and Birmingham suffers from flash flooding the north west is continuing to bask in glorious wall-to-wall sunshine!
When the weather is as good as this the Lakes are unbeatable! Three super sunny days on a bank holiday weekend – brilliant. But for once we didn’t give every day over to rock climbing. Instead we made a plan that had each day dedicated to a different outdoor pursuit…
The bold proclamation of the National Trust – For ever, for everyone. It sounds great doesn’t it? The thing is, having spent six months of 2017 as a NT employee, I have a worrying feeling about the organisation that has motivated me to put these words together…
