Numptynessfollowing from below...
Out on the hills, you really can see Darwinian selection in action very often. I think most people who actually know what they're doing have a list of numpty tales of death as long as their arm.
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Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:14,
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Out on the hills, you really can see Darwinian selection in action very often. I think most people who actually know what they're doing have a list of numpty tales of death as long as their arm.
witnessed one couple of years ago near Scafellguy goes into shop at Wasdale and buys himself a load of climbing gear(not cheap) sets of on his own to climb lord's rake, first time he's tryed climbing, promptly falls of and kills himself, 2 hrs after helicopter takes corpse away the crag is crawling with folks nicking his gear, well spose it's no use to him
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Dill,
Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:18,
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Falling off Lord's Rakeis an achievement in itself.
How's the perched obelisk doing at the moment? I haven't heard any news of it recently.
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Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:21,
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How's the perched obelisk doing at the moment? I haven't heard any news of it recently.
my employers are having lots of meetings about itsome enterprizing chap suggested dynamiting it....oh and my mistake it was broad stand the guy fell off....
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Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:25,
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problem with spending every day in the hills isthat they all blend into one eventually, I reckon I've even become immune to scenery
edit// were you ice climbing on moss force at newlands last week?
(edit// were you ice climbing on moss force at newlands last week?
Dill,
Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:30,
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He used it on an actual hill???I thought most of that stuff was just used to "hike" from the car park to the tea shop in ambleside?
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie,
Tue 9 Mar 2004, 11:21,
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