Walks, runs, climbs, cycle trips, canoe trips, etc. Also other significant events. Visits to islands:- first visit only.
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6-1-12 King's How, Brund Fell (Grange Fell), Great Crag
9-1-12 Binsey
13-1-12 Skiddaw, Bakestall, Broad End, Hare Crag
17-1-12 Sale Fells, Rivings
23-1-12 Binsey
27-1-12 Brown How, Whinlater Top, Lord's Seat, Broom Fell
28-1-12 Watch Hill, Setmurthy Common, (The Hay)
1-2-12 Longlands Fell, Lowthwaite Fell, Brae Fell
3-2-12 Sale Fell, Rivings, Lothwaite
6-2-12 Skiddaw, Broad End, Bakestall
20-2-12 Volcán San Antonio (Trig Point), Volcán Teneguia
21-2-12 Roque de los Muchachos, Pico de la Fuente Nueva
(and subsidiary summit), Pared de Roberto, Pico de
la Cruz
23-2-12 Pico Birigoyo
24-2-12 Pico Bejenado
25-2-12 Cumbrera
6-3-12 Catbells, Maiden Moor, High Spy (two summits)
11-3-12 Raven Crag, High Tove, Armboth Fell
17-3-12 Sale Fell, Rivings, Lothwaite
25-3-12 Blencathra (East-west traverse: Scales Fell, Doddick
Fell Top, Hallsfell Top, Gategill Fell Top, Blease Fell
28-3-12 Hay Stacks
15-4-12 High Pike
17-4-12 The Binn
24-4-12 Whin Rigg, Illgill Head
30-4-12 Great Cockup, Meal Fell
7-5-12 Rhodes
23-5-12 Skiddaw, Watches, Ullock Pike, Longside Edge, Carl
Side
4-6-12 Binsey
7-6-12 Marian Hill (Craigengerroch Hill)
9-6-12 Kennedy's Cairn, Mull of Galloway (summit)
10-6-12 Mull of Galloway (summit)
24-6-12 Binsey, Whittas Park
26-6-12 Seathwaite Fell, Great End, Lingmell
28-6-12 Binsey
12-7-12 Sale Fell, Lothwaite, Rivings
31-7-12 Skiddaw, Carl Side, Carsleddam
12-8-12 Esk Pike, Rossett Pike, (Minor summits on Black
Crags and Littlegill Head)
5-9-12 Sa Talaisa (Sa Talaia)
7-9-12 Sa Torreta (Furnas, Es Fornas, Puig d'en Forns)
10-9-12 Puig de Missa
15-9-12 Binsey
18-9-12 Thorn Crag, Loft Crag, Pike o' Stickle, Harrison
Stickle, Pavey Ark, Thunacar Knott (two summits)
4-10-12 High Hartsop Dodd, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Fairfield,
Cofa Pike, St Sunday Crag, Birks, Arnison Crag
9-10-12 Wetherlam, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Little Carrs,
Pike o' Blisco
15-10-12 Base Brown, Green Gable, Kirk Fell (Two summits)
22-10-12 Sale Fell, Lothwaite, Rivings
26-10-12 Eagle Crag, Sergeant's Crag, High Raise, Ullscarf,
High Saddle, Low Saddle (summits of Coldbarrow
Fell)
4-11-12 Skiddaw, Broad End, Bakestall
5-11-12 Yewbarrow, Red Pike, Scoat Fell
11-11-12 Hunthoof Pike, Green Bell (and subsidiary summit),
Stockless, Randygill Top, Kensgriff, Yarlside
18-11-12 Dodd (Skiddaw Dodd)
7-12-12 High Rigg (and various subsidiary summits)
10-12-12 Brock Crags (two summits), The Knott, High Street
11-12-12 Grisedale Pike, Hobcarton End
18-12-12 Loughrigg Fell (and subsidiary summit), Silver How,
Dow Bank
6-1-13 Black Fell
12-1-13 Binsey, Whittas Park
15-1-13 Sale Fell, Lothwaite, Rivings, Swarthy Hill
20-1-13 Great Calva, Little Calva
24-1-13 Ling Fell
28-1-13 Latrigg
30-1-13 Arthur's Seat, Nether Hill (The Lion's Haunch), Crow
Hill, Salisbury Craigs
31-1-13 Castle Rock (Edinburgh Castle)
1-2-13 Calton Hill
3-2-13 The Binn
6-2-13 Great Cockup (two summits), Little Cockup
10-2-13 Boulby Cliff and Trig Point
18-2-13 Skiddaw, Broad End
21-2-13 Lingmoor Fell, Side Pike
28-2-13 Morro do Furado, Pedras Brancas
2-3-13 Pico Ruivo (Pico Ruivo de Santana), Teixeira
6-3-13 Penha de Aguia (Eagle Rock)
7-3-13 Pico Ruivo do Paul (Pico Ruivo do Paul da Serra,
Ruivo do Paul)
17-3-13 Castle Crag
28-3-13 Binsey
1-4-13 Sale Fell, Rivings, Lothwaite
4-4-13 Wansfell (Baystones), Wansfell Pike
7-4-13 Ling Fell
8-4-13 Grisedale Pike, Hobcarton End
10-4-13 Clints Crags
13-4-13 Sale Fell, Rivings, Lothwaite
3-5-13 Gordale Scar, Malham Tarn, Malham Cove, Seaty
Hill, Great Close Hill
4-5-13 Rye Loaf Hill, Kirkby Fell, Pikedaw Hill
5-5-13 Cawden
6-5-13 Sharp Haw, (and southern subsidiary summit),
Rough Haw, (and northern subsidiary summit),
northern un-named summit (Flasby Fell)
10-5-13 Knott Rigg, Ard Crags, Rannerdale Knotts
2-6-13 Skiddaw, Watches, Ullock Pike, Longside Edge,
Carl Side, Sale How
8-6-13 WNBR (World Naked Bike Ride) London Naked Bike
Ride
15-6-13 Brae Fell, Little Sca Fell, Great Sca Fell, Knott, High
Pike
18-6-13 Blake Fell, Low Pen, High Pen, Burnbank Fell,
Owsen Fell
21-6-13 WNBR (World Naked Bike Ride) York Naked Bike
Ride
25-6-13 Ivinghoe Beacon, Ivinghoe Hills (two summits),
Gallows Hill, Steps Hill, Clipper Down
26-6-13 Haddington Hill, Coombe Hill (NE),
Coombe Hill (SW)
7-7-13 High Pike
10-7-13 Causey Pike, Rowling End, Scar Crags
13-7-13 Sale Fell, Rivings, Lothwaite
19-7-13 Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Steel Fell
22-7-13 Dodd (Skiddaw Dodd)
23-7-13 Ling Fell, Sale Fell
24-7-13 Bakestall
26-7-13 The Old Man of Coniston, Brim Fell
8-8-13 Sour Howes, Sallows, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick,
Thornthwaite Crag, Troutbeck Tongue
25-8-13 Minaun, Achill Island
26-8-13 Slievemore
28-8-13 Nephin
31-8-13 Croagh Patrick
3-9-13 Dun Arann (Inishmore Aran Islands)
5-9-13 Knocknarea, Illaunmore
10-9-13 Blencathra, Gategill Fell Top, Blease Fell
22-9-13 Thack Moor, Watch Hill (Graystone Edge) Two
summits)
29-9-13 Skiddaw, Bakestall, Broad End
5-10-13 Castle Knott (and Eskholme Pike), Calf Top, Barkin
Top, Long Bank (two summits), Brown Knott (two
summits), Two un-named summits, Holme Knott
(and subsidiary summits)
15-10-13 Holme Fell, Wetherlam, Black Sails
17-10-13 Great Sca Fell, Yard Steel (a subsidiary summit of
Great Sca Fell), Knott, High Pike
20-10-13 Clints Crags
3-11-13 Blake Fell, Low Pen, High Pen, Burnbank Fell,
Owsen Fell
10-11-13 Helvellyn, Helvellyn Lower Man, White Side, Raise
12-11-13 Latrigg
22-11-13 Skiddaw, Bakestall, Broad End, Sale How
30-11-13 Dodd, Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag
10-12-13 Lord's Seat, Ullister Hill, Barf
11-12-13 Grisedale Pike, Hobcarton End
29-12-13 Herdus (Great Borne)
Skiddaw and Binsey ... Instructions.
1. Click L I N K (left) for pre-info on Step Four, thisfamilyrobinson.com.
2. Come back to thehumangenehome.com Page 2.
3. Use scroll buttons to scroll.
4. Leave belly buttons to experts.
5. Click up the Skiddaw and Binsey maps, (left), to make 'em clearer and refer to keys.
6. Hope for the best, unless you prefer the worst.
Skiddaw, (G's) & Binsey, (D's) keep
each other company on the Lake District National Park's northern edge, where Cumbrian Mountains look to Scotland. Skiddaw is the most northerly 3000 footer in England, in fact in the British Isles outside Scotland. Next up is Ben Lomond. Are these two intervisible?
Skiddaw, 3054 ft. and 3192 ft. Ben Lomond share a 137mile theoretical intervisibility limit across calm sea. They're about 121 miles apart, but much high ground intervenes. They are not intervisible, despite fell-met clever dicks saying otherwise!
Follow similar stuff re Goat Fell on thisfamilyrobinson.com's home page, (Welcome), then, on Skiddaw, think yourself lucky if you can see as far into Scotland as Tinto.
Binsey ain't 2000 ft. .. (forget 3000 ft.) so it's a hill and no mountain, but norther than Skiddaw it is. Both are Wainwrights and chances are that Binsey's the most northerly, (see Page 4), though Longlands Fell & High Pike are contenders. Brae Fell too, p'raps, but, as noted elseplace, OS grid refs fail to decide, 'cos Grid North ain't true north. Web sites are dodgy too; e.g. Wiki gives Skiddaw summit as NY260290,whereas, (take a skeg at the map), it's a smidgeon further north and a smidgeonette easter than that. So ..
.. best bet in deciding most northly Wainwright? Get up there with the GPS. Good excuse for a fell walk, (though none needed), and should summit all contenders at same time ... as in simultaneously .. in order to minimise experimental error. Mmm!
B&S share, as in have in common, the distinction of being among the few Wainwrights to sport an OS trig pillar, (see thisfamilyrobinson.com, Step Four and this webby Page 4, and anywhere else that might be relevant, or just takes your fancy). Which brings into answer, (makes a change from question), what else's on the summit?
Skiddaw's got a view indicator, albeit crap, and, at the last visit-but-one, weather-buggered, while Binsey has an ancient tumulus, (and, let's face it, if you had one, you'd be seeking some form of intervention therapy), and cairns which grow per visit! Check out pics below!
Final fink ... Is Skiddaw a
Wainwright?
Answer ... No. It's anywhere betwixt 1 and 9 Wainwrights, depending how you look at it! Check 'em out by name in the summit list (left), then consider how Skiddaw beautifully encapsulates Wainwright Whimsy. Gaze west from Skiddaw summit. 8, 9 and 14, Wainwrights all, cover an effortless three quarter mile. Turn east, where Hare Crag and Sale How fail the W criterion, while, (left a bit), Bakestall makes it, and clock the contours*. Bakestall has one personal contour and rises 3 metres above it. Hare Crag rises 8 metres above its own lonely contour, while Sale How has two contours to itself and rises 6 metres above top circle.
Mmmmm! * OS 1:25000 1998.
Hare Crag and Sale How hide, but they feature in G's Skiddaw routes. They feature also, photographically, (Gene & Martin respectively), on Geograph and the links below will take you to the relevant pics.
| Key | Summit | Height in feet |
| 1 | Skiddaw (Skiddaw Man, High Man) | 3054 |
| 2 | North Top | 3024 |
| 3 | Middle Top | 3039 |
| 4 | South Top | 3034 |
| 5 | Skiddaw Little Man | 2837 |
| 6 | Broad End (North) | 2726 |
| 7 | Skiddaw Lesser Man | 2657+ |
| 8 | Carl Side | 2448 |
| 9 | Long Side | 2405 |
| 10 | Jenkin Hill | 2395+ |
| 11 | Lonscale Fell | 2344 |
| 12 | Lonscale Fell (East Peak) | 2306+ |
| 13 | Randel Crag | 2264+ |
| 14 | Ullock Pike | 2230 |
| 15 | Bakestall | 2189 |
| 16 | Sale How | 2185 |
| 17 | Burnt Horse | 1870+ |
| 18 | Carsleddam | 1772+ |
| 19 | Hare Crag | 1765 |
| 20 | Cockup | 1655 |
| 21 | Dodd | 1647 |
| 22 | Great Knott | 1460+ |
| 23 | Latrigg | 1203 |
| 24 | Little Knott | 1175+ |
| 25 | Nameless Summit near Monument | 1093 |
| 26 | Watches | 1075+ |
| 27 | Barkbeth Hill | 800+ |
Skiddaw up left Binsey up right.
Keys
Skiddaw
Binsey below
Routes
1. From A591, (in Wainwright), can be varied
to pass round West Crag, or scramble over.
2. From Binsey Lodge, (in Wainwright). Shortest way.
3. From High Ireby,( but not Wainwright's), more direct and probably a massive trespass. (Naughty!)
4. From the Whitrigg road. An extended outing which takes in the curious, (obvious), chimney and the twin summits of Whittas Park. This is the bestest route.
1. Summit
2. West Cairn
3. East Cairn
4. West Crag
5. Whittas Park
(higher summit)
6. Whittas Park
(lower summit)
7. Chimney
8. Bewaldeth
9. Fell End
10. Binsey Lodge
11. High Ireby
12. To Cockermouth
13. To Keswick A591
14. To Castle Inn
15. To Longlands
16. To Uldale
17. To Ireby
18. To Whitrigg
19. To Bothel A591
Much G apology re
wishy-washy colours.
Wishy-washy green
dashes - rights of way.
Wishy-washy red
dashes - routes to the
summit of Binsey.
Apology also for use of
term wishy-washy.
1. From Keswick, "Tourist" path via Jenkin Hill and Broad End (south).
2. From Applethwaite, via How Gill and Howgill Tongue, joining the "Tourist" path.
3. From Millbeck, via the southwest flank of Little Man and Lesser Man.
4. From Millbeck, via the southwest arete (Wainwright) of Little Man.
5. From Millbeck, via Slades Beck and Tongues Beck.
6. From Millbeck, via Slades Beck and Carlside Tarn.
7. From Millbeck, via Carsleddam and Carl Side.
8. From Millbeck, via White Stones and Carl Side.
9. From Mirehouse, via Long Doors and Carl Side.
10. From Ravenstone Hotel, via The Edge, Ullock Pike, Long Side and Carl Side.
11. From High House (near), via Watches, The Edge, Ullock Pike, Long Side and Carl Side.
12. From High House (near), via Southerndale and Carlside Tarn.
13. From High House (near), via Little Knott, Great Knott, Buzzard Knott and Randel Crag.
14. From High House (near), via Barkbeth Gill direct.
15. From High House (near), via Broad End Direct. 16. From High House (near), via White Horse and Broad End. 17. From Melbecks (near), via Broad End. 18. From Skiddaw House road, via Cockup and Broad End. 19. From Skiddaw House road, via Broad End.
20. From Skiddaw House road, via Dead Beck. 21. From Skiddaw House road, via Dead Crags (north ridge), Bakestall and Broad End.
22. From Skiddaw House road, via Whitewater Dash, Birkett Edge, Bakestall and Broad End. 23. From Skiddaw House road, via Tod Gill and Broad End. 24. From Skiddaw House road, via Hare Crag and Blake Hill. 25. From Skiddaw House road, via River Caldew and its source. 26. From Skiddaw House road, via Sale How. 27. From Skiddaw House road, via Burnt Horse, Lonscale Fell and Jenkin Hill.
28. From Ravenstone Hotel, via Long Doors and Carl Side. 29. From Millbeck, via Long Doors and Carl Side. 30. From Applethwaite, via Latrigg car park and the "Tourist" path. Other routes can be devised and variations of the above are already devised.
12th August 1980, Stob Ban summit, Mamores. Diane and Gene, Philip and Katherine too, witness a spectacular Brocken Spectre. Don't see many of them in a lifetime's fell wandering. 5th January 1998, Edna Telfer, mam of D, on her 2nd ever fell wander, (1st on Binsey), asks G what is a Brocken Spectre. Answer barely past lips of G, when Binsey summit conjures up perfect demo Brocken Spectre; D&G's 2nd (BS), Martin & Edna's 1st. ... a memorable Binsey ascent, D's 22nd. Aside from contact lens loss, (G), and various nude ascents, (D&G, sex for the use of), most Binsey, (or other), climbs become un-minded statistics. Just a few stand out. 1st ascent for D&G was first for Philip, Mark, Katherine, Simon too, while Martin was carried up at less than 2 weeks young. Martin made it on his own feet, 31st October 1988, D's G-less 5th ascent, (no pic). G witnessed M's 2nd self-propelled ascent, 22nd January 1989, (D&G's 6th), while their 7th and M's 3rd saw Barbara Robinson, mam of G, make her only ascent. D's bit of pic gallery also includes 87th, (24-10-06, summit photo appearing on G-made certificate for her featured 100th), 90th, (9-11-06) and 101st, (28-12-06). D made a pic-less ascent with son, Simon and Mary, (not a son), 1-5-05, (62nd), while her 48th ascent, in wind as high as you like, forced 8 week old grandson, Patrick, into Dad's, (Mark's), coat for shelter, while not-a-son Ann-Marie, as in mam of P, looked confidently on. D's 69th, with district nursey friend, Anne, of the Millen variety, ticked 19-2-06. Her 70th was a pic-less traverse, (Binsey Lodge to Whitrigg road),
G trails D Binsey-wise, but hits the memorable button just the same. His 100th, (D's 121st), was a traverse, (High Ireby to A591), made with M, (22-2-09). Then came the consecutive glorious winters of 09-10 & 10-11, the former inspiring 2 white ascents of the sublime kind. 31-12-09 with Graham, Binsey demands, and gets, crampons! Without 'em ethereal Scottish summit view, (while chomping Christmas Cake), harder to see than a crampon at a mile. G went up with M, (who took the photos), 8-1-10. Snow? Just look at the pics. (Below).
Politically Incorrect Genderist Lists (PIGL's)
DIANE'S GENE'S
(Pink) (Blue)
170 Binsey Ascents 143 Binsey Ascents
1. 7-8-83
2. 7-6-84
3. 26-12-84
4. 14-9-86
5. 31-10-88
6. 22-1-89
7. 18-4-90
8. 12-1-92
9. 19-5-93
10. 4-2-95
11. 15-5-95
12. 18-9-95
13. 22-8-96
14. 17-10-96
15. 9-2-97
16. 23-3-97
17. 17-6-97
18. 1-8-97
19. 3-8-97
20. 30-8-97
21. 24-10-97
22. 5-1-98
23. 22-2-98
24. 1-8-98
25. 27-9-98
26. 9-1-99
27. 9-4-99
28. 20-5-99
29. 5-7-99
30. 17-10-99
31. 6-1-00
32. 17-2-00
33. 30-3-00
34. 16-4-00
35. 11-5-00
36. 3-6-00
37. 10-6-00
38. 25-6-00
39. 12-7-00
40. 22-8-00
41. 15-12-00
42. 26-12-00
43. 12-1-02
44. 13-3-02
45. 17-11-02
46. 7-1-03
47. 11-1-03
48. 16-1-03
49. 28-9-03
50. 18-10-03
51. 11-1-04
52. 7-6-04
53. 25-7-04
54. 1-8-04
55. 22-8-04
56. 9-12-04
57. 21-12-04
58. 31-12-04
59. 21-1-05
60. 17-2-05
61. 17-4-05
62. 1-5-05
63. 21-5-05
64. 11-7-05
65. 6-9-05
66. 31-10-05
67. 28-1-06
68. 9-2-06
69. 19-2-06
70. 25-2-06
71. 1-3-06
72. 6-3-06
73. 23-3-06
74. 4-4-06
75. 10-4-06
76. 26-4-06
77. 4-5-06
78. 12-5-06
79. 27-5-06
80. 18-7-06
81. 8-8-06
82. 27-9-06
83. 29-9-06
84. 30-9-06
85. 15-10-06
86. 16-10-06
87. 24-10-06
88. 1-11-06
89. 3-11-06
90. 9-11-06
91. 1-12-06
92. 4-12-06
93. 5-12-06
94. 9-12-06
95. 11-12-06
96. 15-12-06
97. 17-12-06
98. 20-12-06
99. 21-12-06
100. 28-12-06
101. 10-1-07
102. 18-2-07
103. 19-3-07
104. 14-4-07
105. 13-5-07
106. 21-5-07
107. 24-7-07
108. 21-8-07
109. 3-10-07
110. 23-11-07
111. 14-12-07
112. 16-12-07
113. 27-1-08
114. 14-2-08
115. 6-3-08
116. 19-3-08
117. 20-7-08
118. 26-7-08
119. 18-11-08
120. 14-1-09
121. 22-2-09
122. 10-3-09
123. 3-5-09
124. 6-8-09
125. 1-10-09
126. 26-10-09
127. 17-12-09
128. 31-1-10
129. 6-2-10
130. 2-3-10
131. 14-3-10
132. 30-4-10
133. 21-5-10
134. 13-7-10
135. 25-8-10
136. 27-8-10
137. 19-11-10
138. 20-12-10
139. 25-3-11
140. 1-7-11
141. 30-7-11
142. 19-11-11
143. 9-1-12
144. 23-1-12
145. 15-3-12
146. 14-5-12
147. 4-6-12
148. 18-6-12
149. 24-6-12
150. 28-6-12
151. 15-9-12
152. 30-11-12
153. 12-1-13
154. 28-3-13
155. 2-6-13
156. 12-6-13
157. 30-11-13
158. 15-4-14
159. 6-9-14
160. 7-6-15
161. 23-7-15
162. 30-8-15
163. 17-1-16
164. 1-11-16
165. 26-1-17
166. 2-4-17
167. 20-1-18
168. 23-5-18
169. 2-9-18
170. 28-10-18
1. 7-8-83
2. 7-6-84
3. 26-12-84
4. 14-9-86
5. 1-1-87
6. 22-1-89
7. 18-4-90
8. 13-5-90
9. 10-6-90
10. 28-7-91
11. 6-8-91
12. 12-1-92
13. 19-5-93
14. 4-2-95
15. 15-5-95
16. 18-9-95
17. 9-2-97
18. 23-3-97
19. 21-7-97
20. 18-10-97
21. 24-10-97
22. 5-1-98
23. 8-3-98
24. 1-8-98
25. 27-9-98
26. 9-1-99
27. 9-4-99
28. 5-7-99
29. 6-1-00
30. 17-2-00
31. 30-3-00
32. 16-4-00
33. 25-6-00
34. 26-12-00
35. 12-2-01
36. 29-12-01
37. 12-1-02
38. 17-11-02
39. 28-9-03
40. 18-10-03
41. 11-1-04
42. 2-5-04
43. 7-6-04
44. 25-7-04
45. 1-8-04
46. 22-8-04
47. 9-12-04
48. 21-12-04
49. 31-12-04
50. 21-1-05
51. 17-2-05
52. 17-4-05
53. 5-6-05
54. 11-7-05
55. 6-9-05
56. 31-10-05
57. 9-2-06
58. 25-2-06
59. 1-3-06
60. 23-3-06
61. 4-4-06
62. 10-4-06
63. 27-5-06
64. 25-6-06
65. 18-7-06
66. 8-8-06
67. 28-9-06
68. 30-9-06
69. 24-10-06
70. 1-11-06
71. 3-11-06
72. 9-11-06
73. 1-12-06
74. 4-12-06
75. 11-12-06
76. 20-12-06
77. 21-12-06
78. 28-12-06
79. 10-1-07
80. 18-2-07
81. 24-3-07
82. 13-5-07
83. 21-5-07
84. 24-7-07
85. 21-8-07
86. 3-10-07
87. 23-11-07
88. 14-12-07
89. 16-12-07
90. 27-1-08
91. 14-2-08
92. 19-3-08
93. 19-3-08
94. 8-4-08
95. 17-4-08
96. 15-5-08
97. 20-7-08
98. 24-7-08
99. 26-7-08
100. 22-2-09
101. 10-3-09
102. 3-5-09
103. 6-8-09
104. 1-10-09
105. 26-10-09
106. 17-12-09
107. 31-12-09
108. 8-1-10
109. 31-1-10
110. 14-3-10
111. 30-4-10
112. 13-7-10
113. 25-8-10
114. 20-12-10
115. 1-7-11
116. 30-7-11
117. 17-8-11
118. 19-11-11
119. 9-1-12
120. 23-1-12
121. 4-6-12
122. 24-6-12
123. 28-6-12
124. 15-9-12
125. 12-1-13
126. 28-3-13
127. 11-3-14
128. 6-9-14
129. 14-1-15
130. 1-3-15
131. 7-6-15
132. 23-7-15
133. 30-8-15
134. 7-1-16
135. 17-1-16
136. 1-11-16
137. 26-1-17
138. 2-4-17
139. 19-9-17
140. 20-1-18
141. 23-5-18
142, 2-9-18
143. 28-10-18
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Skiddaw is more
prominent in the
view from Binsey
than Binsey is in
the view from
Skiddaw, but only
if you look, or if it
isn't too dark, or
misty, (or both).
Skiddaw features
in 8 of these pics,
can U spot 'em?
6 pics sport east
cairn, clearly
growing, 3 of 'em
show Skiddaw
too. West cairn, also growing, features twice; closely in 8th pic, unclosely, as in farly, in 20th. The chimney isn't on any of these pics, but you can see it on Geograph by clickin' links herewith.
Diane made 3, (training for Peru), G-less ascents, 27-4-06, (16,16), 14-5-06 (8,8), 21-5-06, (16,16-ish), see key here-ish
All D's other ascents made with G, (see info below+R). Gene has Skiddaw-ed on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Chrimbo
Eve, St. Valentine's Day, Leap Day, Ides of March, All Fools' Day, St. George's Day, May Day, Fathers' Day, American (USA)
Independence Day, Guy Fawkes Day (as in Night), St. Andrew's Day, 50th Anniversary of VE Day*, Remembrance Sunday
as in 11th November (2007), End of World Day (Nostradamus) & Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee thing, (6-2-12). He's been on the
summit on Katherine's birthday, Judy's 60th birthday and on the day that he achieved the age his dad reached when he died,
(19,816 days). Gene's been in situ, (on top), at, (exactly), Winter & Summer Solstices, Vernal & Autumnal Equinoxes, during 2 total lunar eclipses, 2 solar eclipses, (1 annular elsewhere, locally partial, but obscured, 1 total elsewhere, locally partial and unobscured, but insignificant at Skiddaw's latitude), with Comet Hale-Bopp in the sky and on the 25th anniversary of his first ascent. G twice attempted to run to the summit from Croft Farm, Plumbland, in under 2 hours, failing by 3min. 38sec. summited as part of the Little Cumbrian Cockup running event, and reached the top from Croft Farm in under 90 minutes using a bike,
part of a return trip in under 150 minutes. He has climbed the mountain barefoot and naked, in daylight, descending in the same state, without, so far, being arrested! Everyone who doesn't know should know that 2000 was the final year of 20th Century, G's ascents straddling two millennia, (with two n's). 22-8-00 and 13-1-01 respectively last of 20th & 1st ascents of 21st Centuries, as in last and 1st of 2nd & 3rd Millennia.
The Future?
Gene has no idea. That's the whole point about the future. Solar eclipses? Track of total eclipse of the Sun 7 Oct 2135 will just about scrape Skiddaw summit, unless summat drastic happens to Earth/Sun/SolarSystem/Galaxy/LocalCluster/etc/Universe,
or Skiddaw in the meantime. 14 Jun 2151's total solar eclipse has Skiddaw in Bull's Eye! If you're there and have read this, tell 'em G sent you! G's got more chance with Skiddaw's next solar annular eclipse 23-7-93. He'll only be 150 years 162 days old!
of Skiddaw.
Routes (Ascent & Descent)
in brackets.
1. 24-7-64 (5,5)
2. 20-6-70 (1,1)
3. 25-8-83 (10,13)
4. 28-10-83 (18,18)
5. 19-2-84 (22,21)
6. 25-2-84 (21,22)
7. 9-6-84 (22,22)
8. 31-12-84 (22,22)
9. 18-2-85 (24,26)
10. 16-6-85 (22,22)
11. 4-8-85 (10,12)
12. 26-10-85 (7,8)
13. 11-1-87 (22,22)
14. 21-5-88 (4,7)
15. 17-9-88 (10,13)
16. 24-7-89 (17,17)
17. 6-8-89 (17,17)
18. 17-8-89 (17,17)
19. 4-4-90 (14,11)
20. 1-5-90 (13,17)
21. 23-7-90 (16,13)
22. 26-8-90 (22,22)
23. 26-10-90 (13,16)
24. 18-11-90 (25,24)
25. 24-12-90 (17,9)
26. 13-1-91 (6,13)
27. 14-2-91 (12,16)
28. 15-3-91 (17,17)
29. 24-3-91 (3,7)
30. 22-4-91 (10,13)
31. 29-5-91 (16,13)
32. 21-6-91 (17,17)
33. 30-7-91 (17,17)
34. 7-8-91 (17,17)
35. 8-9-91 (19,19)
36. 9-10-91 (22,26)
37. 19-11-91 (17,17)
38. 8-12-91 (11,13)
39. 29-2-92 (20,22)
40. 8-4-92 (8,3)
41. 10-5-92 (13,14)
42. 16-5-92 (22,22)
43. 12-6-92 (17,17)
44. 19-7-92 (17,17)
45. 27-8-92 (16,13)
46. 17-10-92 (13,16)
47. 14-11-92 (17,17)
48. 9-12-92 (17,17)
49. 21-12-92 (16,16)
50. 11-2-93 (22,22)
51. 20-4-93 (10,16)
52. 5-6-93 (22,22)
53. 20-11-93 (16,11)
54. 7-2-94 (8,3)
55. 7-5-94 (22,11)
56. 10-5-94 (17,17)
57. 23-9-94 (13,16)
58. 4-12-94 (22,22)
59. 26-2-95 (16,13)
60. 2-4-95 (23,24)
61. 8-5-95 (17,17)
62. 21-6-95 (6,13)
63. 3-7-95 (20,21)
64. 4-9-95 (11,15)
65. 23-9-95 (17,17)
66. 17-12-95 (11,16)
67. 1-1-96 (8,3)
68. 11-4-96 (2,2)
69. 16-6-96 (17,17)
70. 5-7-96 (13,16)
71. 8-7-96 (11,16)
72. 24-7-96 (17,17)
73. 13-9-96 (13,16)
74. 5-10-96 (22,20)
75. 21-3-97 (16,11)
76. 15-4-97 (17,17)
77. 14-5-97 (17,17)
78. 29-7-97 (11,16)
79. 5-8-97 (21,22)
80. 7-8-97 (17,17)
81. 25-9-97 (16,13)
82. 11-10-97 (8,6)
83. 30-11-97 (13,16)
84. 18-2-98 (13,11)
85. 31-7-98 (27,22)
86. 20-12-98 (8,3)
87. 1-4-99 (11,16)
88. 4-7-99 (16,13)
89. 24-8-99 (19,19)
90. 28-10-99 (16,11)
91. 11-3-00 (22,22)
92. 26-6-00 (11,16)
93. 22-8-00 (16,12)
94. 13-1-01 (8,3)
95. 9-12-01 (16,16)
96. 16-2-02 (13,16)
97. 26-5-02 (27,22)
98. 5-8-02 (22,24)
99. 14-9-02 (16,11)
100. 18-12-02 (18,22)
101. 17-2-03 (11,16)
102. 21-3-03 (22,22)
103. 2-10-03 (16,13)
104. 8-2-04 (24,22)
105. 16-4-04 (16,11)
106. 1-8-04 (16,16)
107. 24-9-04 (16,11)
108. 12-12-04 (16,22)
109. 16-1-05 (22,18)
110. 9-8-05 (11,16)
111. 11-9-05 (16,11)
112. 26-1-06 (16,16)
113. 6-3-06 (16,16)
114. 29-3-06 (1,1)
115. 23-4-06 (16,11)
116. 29-5-06 (22,22)
117. 17-8-06 (16,16)
118. 16-10-06 (17,17)
119. 24-2-07 (16,16)
120. 21-6-07 (16,11)
121. 22-8-07 (16,16)
122. 5-11-07 (22,22)
123. 11-11-07 (22,22)
124. 14-11-07 (16,16)
125. 15-12-07 (22,22)
126. 29-5-08 (27,22)
127. 31-8-08 (22,18)
128. 29-3-09 (16,16)
129. 11-5-09 (8,3)
130. 21-6-09 (22,26)
131. 13-8-09 (11,16)
132. 5-10-09 (28,10)
133. 8-12-09 (11,16)
134. 24-4-10 (11,24)
135. 31-5-10 (24,26)
136. 14-6-10 (8,7)
137. 1-11-10 (16,16)
138. 15-11-10 (22,18)
139. 8-2-11 (22,24)
140. 8-4-11 (8,3)
141. 26-4-11 (11,16)
142. 14-6-11 (17,17)
143. 3-8-11 (6,8)
144. 19-8-11 (22,22)
145. 16-10-11 (8,8)
146. 1-11-11 (22,22)
147. 16-11-11 (16,16)
148. 30-11-11 (29,30)
149. 13-1-12 (22,24)
150. 6-2-12 (22,22)
151. 23-5-12 (11,13)
152. 31-7-12 (8,7)
153. 4-11-12 (22, 22)
154. 18-2-13 (16, 16)
155. 2-6-13 (11, 26)
156. 29-9-13 (22, 22)
157. 22-11-13 (22, 26)
158. 26-3-14 (16, 16)
159. 17-7-14 (16, 11)
160. 10-9-14 (16, 13)
161. 18-11-14 (22, 22)
162. 28-12-14 (16, 18)
163. 21-4-15 (11, 16)
164. 17-9-15 (8,3)
165. 22-9-15 (22, 22)
166. 23-2-16 (16, 16)
167. 21-7-16 (11, 16)
168. 25-3-17 (11, 16)
169. 18-7-17 (22, 22)
170. 15-11-17 (22, 22)
171. 19-4-18 (16,11)
172. 30-8-18 (22,22)
Judy 1, 2.
Katherine 3, 4, 7.
Diane 4, 12, 15, 22, 30, 42, 48, 51, 52, 53, 57, 59, 73, 74, 79, 82, 86, 88, 91, 98, 105, 114, 115, 116, 121, 123, 128,
139, 149, 153, 156, 158.
Simon 4, 10.
Alone 5, 9, 11 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46,
47, 49, 50, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95,
96, 99, 101, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 112, 113,117, 118, 120, 122, 129, 131, 134, 137, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145,
146, 147. 152. 154. 159, 160, 163, 164, 166, 169, 170, 171, 172.
Philip 6, 8, 67, 125.
Mark 8, 10.
Stephen Pardoe (Dad of Steve) 10.
Martin 15, 22, 42, 52, 53, 54, 57, 66, 67, 79, 84, 86, 111, 125, 135, 138, 168.
Graham 20, 36, 40, 51, 88, 97, 100, 104, 108, 109, 119, 124, 126, 127, 130, 132, 133, 136, 141, 148, 150, 151, 155,
157, 161, 162, 165, 167.
Barbara Robinson (Mam of Gene) 22.
Edna Telfer (Mam of Diane) 52.
Barry Hughes 55.
Michael Waterman 58, 71.
Notes.
Martin was also present 4, (carried), 12, (part carried).
Diane and Martin with Gene 29, but not to summit of Skiddaw.
Graham met during ascent 108, thereafter with him.
Various people have been met on the summit, Graham included. Debbie Nixon too.
Of those summit met, previously unmet, Sarah is memorable. She and husband, Matt, and two children, were part of a group of 2, or 3 families up from southerly in England, planning to move to Cumbria in the, (then), near future. Sarah quizzed Gene lotly re his Skiddaw experiences. Much of what Gene told her during a shared descent appears here. Happy Skiddawing, Sarah. If 146 was your first, many more to your boots, or even if it wasn't!
Gene met Geoff from Thornton Cleveleys and shared most of ascent 163 with him, but not descent.
* Beacon for VE on Skiddaw. G & beacon-igniter bloke, who offered G a lift down in a posh multi-terrain vehicule, (declined, natch!) Sticks in mind, as in memory, but not for ascent, attribute thereof. Neither sipping whisky on top, as Big Ben, hauled up in the radio of one of a dozen strangers momentarily united in an Auld Lang Syne ring-a-sing-song, chimes in '85. They've got nowt to do wi' the mountain. More to do wi' humans on t' mountain. Some best forgotten too. Like the bloke 'avin' a poo right by the trig pillar, just as G arrived, loo paper flying 3 plus sheets to the wind! Sorry! Not the best way to best forget!
No! It's what the mountain reveals that counts. It's always special. Graham and Gene got summit flattened by a westerly screamer, 30-11-11. Couldn't stand. Forced down eastward for shelter and safeness. But even that ain't a wind winner. Oh no! 14-11-92's easterly came in disguise! On 'is tod G, shirt-sleeves to Broad End, where Skiddaw says, "Hey! Look at mi plume!" Couldn't miss it. Big white banner of snow blown USA-wards by disguised thingerly! Soon, shirt sleeves sub other, proper clobber, G reaches north top, where huddled sizeable proportion of Earth's population, declining all to go on, as in progress. "Wimps!", thinks G, while wondering if it should be 'Whimp'(s), until head ventured one metaphorical follicle, minus hair, summitward, (he was actually wearing at least 2 hats & a hood), confirms .. W(h)imp a good idea! But, as others retreat, G risks it. It's a 10ft. high blizzard born of Earth, not Sky. Iceberg breeze blocks, as in hurricane blocks, traverse L-R at delicate parts height, as stuff hurtles up and over east flank to Heaven knows where. Although G hates to admit it, he doesn't inch the ridge to the summit, lowlier than delicate parts height, he lowerly centimetres it! It is the most dangerous situation Gene has ever been in anywhere, any time. End of! Do not underestimate Skiddaw! Back home, Diane & Martin, admiring Skiddaw's white magnificence from a sunny Plumbland churchyard, said, they'd wished they come too! ... before G told 'em, that is!
11-2-93 G reaches his half century having pre-booked the date for his 50th ascent. Bit risky in iffy Feb, even more so given mam of G's confirmation that Hour Zero was 2am ! Come the day, (night), cloud clothed, not only Skiddaw's summit, not only Binsey's, but their roots too, so G felt & fumbled up route 22. Calm and clammy all the way ... nearly. Calm, clammy clamber ended 3 clambers short of the top, as G's final stumbles became 3 glorious steps onto the north top in moonlight. Like wading out of the sea onto a silver beach. The summit ridge, north top to south, was a lonely, glttering island in billows of ocean, lit by stars competing brilliantly with the moon. Cloud tops stretched white, as far as privileged eyes could see. Near as they could see ... frosty rocks in icy light twinkling to mirror the stars. Magical? No. Words can't properly describe it. Well, G's words can't, despite long stop atop to contemplate. Descent in gloom felt less gloomy now. And Croft Farm's dark held one more surprise, switch-click revealed. D's hand-made certificate to prove he hadn't been dreaming. Epilogue. Gene was born during WW2 and he realsed just after, (11-2-93, not 43), that wartime summers ran double BST. Did that mean single BST in winter? G checked with them as know. Yes, it did. Gene shoulda aimed for 1am ! Sorry, Mam!
Martin finished work early 15-11-10, phoned Gene, whence impromptu afternoon ascent of Skiddaw via Bakestall and the snow zone start on Broad End. Entered cloud on summit and flask refreshed in snowfall. Began the descent via north top, went down couple of hundred feet, then Skiddaw staged, un-announced and unexpected, a show it will have muchly seen before. But they hadn't ... a cloud-work display! Spectacular? It was good enough to send G&M back to the summit! That good? Martin had a couple of cameras. Below two dozen of the millions of pics he took. You click! You Judge! Descent was, (eventually), via Broad End and Cockup!
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Add Diane's 3 solo efforts (last yellow box) to 32 with Gene, (lilac box of the only kind) & she has 35.
Pics (Left) G's 3, 12, 22. (Below) G's 138
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