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Aug 2018
7:03am, 16 Aug 2018
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Derby Tup
I drove down from Dundee yesterday - Shap summit and M6 below was quite wet. Clag down to valley bottom in places. Wild but still beautiful
Aug 2018
8:21pm, 26 Aug 2018
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DavidFenlandRunner
Really hope this is fake news?! :-o

"Stolen - from Blencathra summit. The trig thingy. Who does stuff like that?"
Aug 2018
8:26pm, 26 Aug 2018
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Derby Tup
I thought there was just a ‘flattish slatey cairn’ up there :)
Aug 2018
8:34pm, 26 Aug 2018
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DavidFenlandRunner
trigpointing.uk
Aug 2018
9:46pm, 26 Aug 2018
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Northern Exile
I'm afraid it's true. Slats from Keswick A.C. went up yesterday morning and discovered it was missing 😔
Aug 2018
10:25pm, 26 Aug 2018
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DavidFenlandRunner
:( :( :(
Aug 2018
10:35pm, 26 Aug 2018
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Derby Tup
wtmf?
Aug 2018
11:35pm, 27 Aug 2018
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mushroom
How the hell do you move 5 yards, let alone off the summit, a metre tall lump of concrete..!?
Aug 2018
5:03pm, 28 Aug 2018
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flanker
If it had been from the top of Skiddaw you could have blamed the wind.

But really...
Aug 2018
5:05pm, 28 Aug 2018
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Badger
Somebody taking "collecting trig points" a bit too literally?

Off to Keswick tomorrow...

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