what i did last weekend

[mowgli]

4:45am saturday, got up at mates house near market harborough
5:10am peugeot 807 arrived & we loaded it with gear
5:20am set off 2 of us sharing the driving
3:10pm arrived in Fort William
3:50pm-10:30pm 4 of my mates climbed ben nevis in awful weather, including snow
10:30pm-11:15pm fed them, packed up the gear
11:15pm set off, 2 of us again sharing the driving
4:10am sunday arrived scafell pike
5am sent the 4 lads up the mountain in torrential rain
1:00pm they reappeared
1:05pm, mugs of tea & sausage sandwiches & climbed back into the car
1:30pm the lads decided they were too knackered/injured to climb snowdon
6:30pm arrived back at mkt harborough

1 hr sleep
14 hrs climbing (luckily not me, i was drying out clothes & prepping food etc..)
19hrs driving
the rest was food stops...

i then went home & couldn't get to sleep till 1:00am monday am due to massive ingress of caffeine, lucozade & kendal mint cake

so we tried the 3 peaks challenge, and failed

but next year we won't, even though the start to finish time of 24hrs is a but optimistic..and i plan to have a crack at it

anyone else done it?

[pie]

im knackerd just reading it never mind doing it f lol lol

i wouldnt mind having ago tbh duno how far id get before i give up n fell to the ground lol

[mowgli]

my mate trained for months & he looked like a zombie after the second climb

i had a bit of time to kill on sunday morning so set off up the track in my cheap trainers, & went maybe 2 miles, but the path was actually a stream 3" deep.. my trainers seemed pretty good over the rocks, but tha lads were actually wearing proper hiking books & my mate had enormous blisters, it was pretty rough

there are 2 ways up scafell pike & we'd chosen the less popular one, as the most popular one is next to a river & the river was 6' up on its normal level....most climbers actually gave up as they simply couldn't get to the start line..

[mk1nova_rich]

No but always wanted to do it. Only done the Three Peaks of Yorkshire which is a good starting point :thumb:

[mk1nova_rich]

Also done Snowdon and Scafell Pike on separate occasions...Snowdon being by far the easier of the two lol

[turbojolt]

so you was there biatch?

[mowgli]

Also done Snowdon and Scafell Pike on separate occasions...Snowdon being by far the easier of the two lol

damn right, theres a sodding train

[marc69]

Although you didn't succeed all the peaks, without sunding corny.......it has to be the attempting that is really impressive, especially taking into consideration the weather that weekend.

I'm impressed anyway.

[mowgli]

i'd never seen that amount of flooding before... trying to drive to a deadline on wet motorways was fun and a half too