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Jul 2019
10:03pm, 10 Jul 2019
2,193 posts
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FenlandRunner
My missus likes the outdoors, but doesn't like to go above 500 metres, although I think she has done Lord's Seat, but we did start at Whinlatter.
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Jul 2019
7:18am, 11 Jul 2019
32,756 posts
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Derby Tup
I met Stef for the first time and we went on a seven hour run in the Dales. We’ve been together ever since
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Jul 2019
8:24am, 11 Jul 2019
42,252 posts
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Velociraptor
I suspected eL Bee! and I might be compatible when we went on our first short holiday together, to Keswick, and he didn't hesitate to say yes when I asked him, "Could you LIVE here?"
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Jul 2019
8:43am, 11 Jul 2019
1,489 posts
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CumbriAndy
I once tried taking Mrs CA on a walk I'd done many times with groups of inner city teens. We got half way to Sergeant Man when she declared that she'd had enough and wanted to go down. Other than The Helm (185m bump just outside Kendal and about 25 minutes walk from our front door), I don't recall us having been out of a valley or away from a lake shore since.
Upside is that I get to spend days out in the hills by myself which is something I always liked doing before we met.
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Jul 2019
9:30am, 11 Jul 2019
3,058 posts
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R4R
I met Mrs R4R on a charity trek in the Himalayas, so no surprises when we discovered we both had a love of the outdoors in general, and the Lakes in particular. 8 sleeps to our next lakeland jaunt 
NE - what's the 'Great Gifts 14' of which you speak?
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Jul 2019
10:19am, 11 Jul 2019
17,694 posts
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KinkyS
I can't begin to imagine what flanker and I have in common
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Jul 2019
10:21am, 11 Jul 2019
5,217 posts
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Northern Exile
R4R - good question
The "Great Gifts" are the mountains that were bequeathed to the nation (under the stewardship of the National Trust) by the FRCC. This took place around 1923 when wealthy landowers such as Lord Lonsdale and W.H. Walker agreed to part with them for what was then a pretty significant sum ..... part of the deal was placing a memorial to the Great War Fallen on the summit of Great Gable, which I'm sure everyone knows. Here's a map of the land purchase at the time:
The "Great Gifts 14" is a challenge circuit of all those fells, plus a couple more - Castle Crag is one - that makes it a bit more of a task. It's the supposed brainchild of that bloke who goes around barefoot/in sandals, however it's nothing new really - the FRCC have had the "Memorial Circuit" in place for donkeys, this just adds a couple of tops.
A few of us have been distracted by working out the shortest possible route round them as there are some obvious navigational conundrums to solve (I got it down to about 22miles), but I don't think anyone takes it seriously. Part of the problem is the association with the AK barefoot person, he's tried to push it as a patriotic challenge and given the sort of person he is, several people have been a bit afronted by the suggestion. I agree with them, but still want to have a go From memory, the circuit starts/finishes on Wasdale green and goes:
Kirk Fell
Great Gable
Green Gable
Base Brown
Brandreth
Grey Knotts
Castle Crag
Glaramara
Allen Crags
Seathwaite Fell
Great End
Broad Crag
Scafell Pike
Lingmell
Something like that anyhow.
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Jul 2019
10:30am, 11 Jul 2019
42,259 posts
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Velociraptor
Very good question! Google seems unaware of the Great Gifts 14.
Why is it that people take against AK? As far as I can see, he keeps a fairly low profile, but I don't move in fell running/ultramarathon circles so I wouldn't necessarily know.
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Jul 2019
12:17pm, 11 Jul 2019
3,059 posts
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R4R
Thanks NE - have now found 'Memorial Round' on FRCC website. Well remembered - Round consists of 12 tops, your list apart from Castle Crag and Scafell Pike.
May well have a go at some or all of that, probably over a couple of days out.
Staying in Duddon Valley from next Friday, then near Keswick in August, so I'm sure we'll get at least some of them done
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Jul 2019
12:21pm, 11 Jul 2019
42,262 posts
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Velociraptor
It looks as if R4R and Rosehip may be in almost the same place at almost the same time
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