tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post1837433395634120370..comments2024-03-26T21:10:39.866+00:00Comments on Postcard from Timperley: Saturday 18 April 2009 - The Calderdale HikePhreerunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551842487502221703noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-35142343413815772372009-04-24T08:15:00.000+01:002009-04-24T08:15:00.000+01:00I always felt it was easier to walk than to suppor...I always felt it was easier to walk than to support. Much warmer, anyway!<br />I'm sure you (we) could devise a good scenic route between Lancaster and Manchester.<br />One of my forthcoming trips is in fact Windermere to Manchester (or as far as I get in a week) from 1 to 7 June. I'll be working out a route next week and putting details on our topwalks.com site.Phreerunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551842487502221703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-36814986276793890662009-04-24T00:33:00.000+01:002009-04-24T00:33:00.000+01:00Our paths must have crossed then. I walked most of...Our paths must have crossed then. I walked most of it in the academic year 84/85 and provided tea and sympathy for the next three or four years.<br />I'd be very interested to read that post - as you can see I didn't even realise that it started in Lancaster.<br /><br />Hmmmm - how about an alternative Bogle using footpaths linking Manchester and Lancaster? A bit more manageable than an Arnside Knot Skyline walk. I shall be thinking about that over at least the next few days.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-31128919137966345562009-04-23T23:06:00.000+01:002009-04-23T23:06:00.000+01:00I first did Bogle Stroll - in trainers, of course,...I first did Bogle Stroll - in trainers, of course, in 1968, when it started from Lancaster, and I finally retired from it in 1995, as I was due to go on my first skiing trip a week later, and felt it wise not to do Bogle. In the event, I was tempted down a black run after 3 days and broke my cruciate ligament, so (with cartilage problems as well) long walks like Bogle are a thing of the past.<br />BTW, in the early days finishing Bogle was compulsory, as the winning team (all 10 members needed to finish) won a barrel of beer!<br />[I must do a posting about Bogle, some day...]Phreerunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551842487502221703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-36305777996937411792009-04-23T22:32:00.000+01:002009-04-23T22:32:00.000+01:00It does look like a good workout. A good friend li...It does look like a good workout. A good friend lived in Mythnroyd for a few years - many of the places you passed through are familiar of old.<br />I spent many long cold evenings manning a Hiking Club checkpoint on the Bogle Stroll (the 'other' University rather than UMIST, although of course they are reunited these days).<br />Did you Bogle when it went to Blackpool?<br />I only walked the Bogle Stroll once and even then I didn't finish. I dropped out in Walkden (around 45 miles I think) with a very swollen ankle. Ironically, my walking friends blamed the injury on my foolish decision to walk in trainers with 'no ankle support'.<br />I was never tempted to try again - I think it was passing through Wigan at around closing time which put me off. Or all those miles on tarmac.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-50679224927224939562009-04-22T16:34:00.000+01:002009-04-22T16:34:00.000+01:00Interesting - 27 Feb 2008
"Buildings (and trophies...Interesting - 27 Feb 2008<br />"Buildings (and trophies) damaged in South Yorkshire" and yes, we were the other side of the world at the time.Phreerunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551842487502221703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-77222073973366761352009-04-22T14:53:00.000+01:002009-04-22T14:53:00.000+01:00Check this out: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcente...Check this out: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008nyae/#details<br />Guess you were in the land of the long white cloud...wuxinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878666928578305270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-87171706803572532732009-04-21T16:58:00.000+01:002009-04-21T16:58:00.000+01:00It's a lovely area, isn't it, and once in 'Hole Bo...It's a lovely area, isn't it, and once in 'Hole Bottom' you could see how it came to be so named, in days when 'holes' and 'bottoms' were merely geographical features. What really amused me was the way in which the trophy had become so battered - I'd looked at it and thought 'if I possessed that I'd get it refurbished', but the guy who organises the walk is the maker and he insisted that the 'Earthquake Damage' must be preserved for posterity...Phreerunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551842487502221703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670908392024479748.post-21422148278534457542009-04-21T15:44:00.000+01:002009-04-21T15:44:00.000+01:00Such a litany of poetic Pennine place names, takes...Such a litany of poetic Pennine place names, takes me back to the time I lived in Queensbury and haunted this area on Sundays...<br /><br />Hole Bottom, though... couldn't make it up, could you eh?Mike Knipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12792636586674245725noreply@blogger.com