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I grew up in the countryside 8 miles from a major UK city, and was privileged to be old enough to truly appreciate the start of the big hiking craze in the mid 1980s. It was us, a pack of kids in short shorts, t-shirts and jelly shoes (worse version of crocs) in the summer, and jeans, parkas, and Wellington boots in the winter, racing "townies" across the very flat moors and up the edges who were in full bright neon hiking gear + rucksacks + climbing gear costing hundreds of pounds. "hey mister you know there is a bus stop a mile away back to town and right". My old dad still gets a chuckle out of them as he tramps across the moors in old jogging bottoms and wellies to this day. Best part about this is that 5 miles away in a different direction there are actual mountains.
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Apr 4, 2016 23:19
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The ultralight guy? Is he unlikeable in person? 'cos ultralight means I can still keep hiking with a dickie knee.
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Apr 5, 2016 10:17
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Because you live in the peak district where there are caves, or alternatively Youth Hostels.
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Apr 5, 2016 15:21
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What do you use to camp out there? I'm thinking about switching from a one man tent to one of those nifty four seasons Bivy Sacks with the hoop so you can sit up in it instead.
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Apr 5, 2016 17:46
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Perfect meselfs thank you, looks like I can pick it up cheaper here than the Outdoor Research Alpine Bivy I have been eyeing as well. My child has been watching me view this subforum with a deep sense of foreboding and impending doom.
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Apr 5, 2016 18:54
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I'm full of I'm stuck in the house for the next week and spending imaginary money on gear questions today...Does anyone here own or know of anyone who owns a Garmin Oregon 600? I have the 450t and it worries me. The screen on the 450t is bevelled and some sort of non-scratch plastic coated e-ink thing, but the screen on the 600 is flat gorilla glass. I don't understand this. Surely it gives it the durability of an iPhone does it not?
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Apr 6, 2016 00:25
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I prefer my satmap 10 to anything else, it is admittedly more of a pain in the arse sometimes but the size of the screen and the cheapness of the 1:10000 O/S maps negate the flaws. The 400t is usually attached to a child with an active route back to a safe place and set up for geocashing. Since I posted I discovered that you probably can hammer in tent pegs with the 600. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ab2lr4WVI
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Apr 7, 2016 09:54
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It's your own fault for living somewhere interesting really. I'd like to see an animal in the wild  Animal rights activists let hundreds of minks free in our area in the 80s which promptly ate everything but the squirrels.
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Apr 8, 2016 22:10
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I feel you I really do. On the plus side the birds are doing fine and that's mostly down to farmers keeping a eye on protected areas/ the mini reserves and setting traps for mink, rats, and feral cats, which is quite sweet really as they don't have to police them and they do it at there own expense.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:22
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Cats are fine so long as they are kept in the house, but it's undeniable that they kill for fun and are very good at it, which ain't great for the local British wildlife and but is good for spiders of which we have quite the infestation.
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Apr 10, 2016 22:18
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Where is it that you go hiking again? I want to know so I can never go there.
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Apr 25, 2016 16:38
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Few of the Monty python opening sequences with the "It's" man were filmed where my parent's garden would be 10 years later. The peak district is a lot like some of the places posted about here if they had much smaller peaks, actual paved paths for some of the main trails, you were never within a few hours from a bath, lots of tourists, and instead of big bugs there were midges. I'm not joking about the path thing btw 
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Apr 26, 2016 20:15
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Did you use google maps on your iPhone like a real pro?
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May 7, 2016 19:20
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After 20 years I am finally moving back into the arse end of nowhere, which has a popular hiking route* though it. Last time I was a teenager and therefore didn't appreciate it enough, and now I'm looking forward to really annoying the tourists with short shorts and flip flops again. *It's one of those UK trails that people wear £500 worth of all weather gear for, and at no point are they more than a mile away from some sort of village, pub, or bus stop.
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Feb 19, 2017 01:12
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pointsofdata posted:I think those paths are also to protect the route from you excessive erosion They are yes, peak national park has invested a fortune in putting nice paths and stairs along vulnerable parts of the pennine way especially in the Edale/Castleton area. It still makes it really unimpressive when people brag about walking it, unless they keep on going north and out of youth hostel range. The biggest problem mountain rescue has is idiots using google maps as a map or geocaching on a Iphone and then ending up hosed when the heavy fog comes down and oops no battery, few years ago they said that call outs have gone up 180% since the invention of the smartphone.
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Feb 19, 2017 01:28
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There were always idiots with dogs, what there are now are less farmers walking around their land threatening to shoot dogs since quotas came in. They worked out that selling them to those big mega farm businesses meant they could retire to Spain and not get up at 3am in winter, and besides " the younger generation have no interest in farming and are going to sell up when Im dead anyway so gently caress 'em".
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Feb 20, 2017 11:58
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