Geoff on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Les Gets, Walks
One of my ambitions since getting my apartment in Les Gets has been to snow shoe walk up and board down the impressive Roc d’Enfer (2200m) which you can see from the top of my favourite hill, Mont Chery.
Last week with Sally and Ray we explored Roc d’Enfer (nb. Enfer is the French word for [...]
admin on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Personal, Walks
A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought
Ely Area Circular Walk - Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging
The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”.
I have been following there travels around the English waterways in their [...]
Geoff on Mar 30 2008 | Filed under: Walks
Todays walk in splendid conditions, the first hot weather of the year was a good stretch. Totalling about 21 miles with one pint of shandy (Queens Head, Newton) and tea and cakes at The Orchard in Grantchester. Followed by a very quick dip in the river at NRC, I did our first mash using [...]
admin on Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: Walks
Sally and I went for a walk to explore the Nar valley from the River Nars mouth in Kings Lynn to Narborough. Of course the Nar Valley is where I first met Sally Sally in October 2006. and the walk took as to the halfway stage of that fateful day.
Here is the wikiloc trace [...]
Geoff on Jan 06 2008 | Filed under: Walks
After Em’s 18th birthday festivities we managed a late start for our first Cambridge walk of 2008 this morning in glorious sunshine.
We set off (with no provisions rucksacs etc) along Grantchester meadows snapped a couple of fine pictures of the church, although the clock is working now The Rupert Brook pub sign however, [...]
Geoff on Nov 02 2007 | Filed under: Personal, Walks
Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps.
The aim of [...]
Geoff on Apr 26 2007 | Filed under: Walks
After doing my warming up exercises for the GR20 at the weekend with Sally. I thought it might be interesting to have another look at my GR5 walk last year.
Day 7 was one of my longer days. I left the excellent Chalet de Nant Borrant (1460m) at 07.45. By 10.43 I was atop Col [...]
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