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BB0813
: What's It All About, Tony?
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Wednesday
16th April 2008
BOOTboys
fame
is slowly spreading!
Two
folk have contacted me in the last week. Steve,
an exiled Lancastrian in Northampton, read the BB0812
Wet Wet Wet report about ten seconds after I had uploaded
it and sent me some interesting information about Sleddale
Hall being used as Monty's Holiday Home. To find
out more see Sleddale
Hall.
Steve
was able to provide another Big Josie story:
Roll
Up, Roll Up, Come and see the Fat Girl!
He
also reminded me of the delights of Uncle
Joe's Mint Balls. Further research
revealed that Uncle
Joe now has his own dedicated
website, complete with lyrics.
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Keep
you all aglow!
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Then
Ann from Keswick contacted me, not in connection with
BOOTboys
but in relation to an article on Natland.info
about Natlanders
accept the Wainwright Challenge to which
Ann
had put a link on her website Mad
About Mountains following her ascent
of Potter
Fell. I sent her the links to the
two BOOTboys
blogs of Potter Fell, BB0510
and BB0633.
Ann's
website contains many splendid photos and an admirably
catalogued cross reference of her Wainwright walks and
much, much more. This motivated me to cross
reference the Ws on our Wainwrights
spreadsheet to the BOOTboys
outings, a process which I started and then managed
to lose all my input! I
have now completed it for the 214 peaks in the main
listings (being utterly confused in the process by Wansfell
having been listed under its other name of Baystones)
and will, in due course, cross reference our other outings.
I
can now announce that
the total number of Wainwrights not yet visited by BOOTboys
is:
71.
And
the name of the BOOTboys
most visited peak.
In joint second place, with four
visits each are:
Fairfield, Hart Crag, Harter
Fell and Thornthwaite Crag.
But the clear
winner, with six visits is.......
Click to find out!
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BOOT
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Home
Page
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Archive
2008
Outings
BB0801 :
Avoiding the Graupel;
16
January
BB0802 :
Lyth in the Old Dogs; 22 January
BB0803
: That's Lyth;
27 January
BB0804
: Tony's Memory Lane;
30th January
BB0805
: Fell's Belles! Thank You Mells?
6th
February
BB0806
: The Langdale Skyline and a Fell Race!
13th
February
BB0807a:
An Outbreak of Common Sense;
21st February
2008
BB0807b:
Askham Fell and the Lowther Estate;
13th
March 2008
BB0808
: Thanks to the MWIS
19th March 2008
BB0809
: High Street and Kidsty Pike but no Fairy
28th
March
2008
BB0810
: Prelude to Spring
2nd April 2008
BB0811
: Spring in Lakeland
6th April 2008
BB0812
: Wet,
Wet, Wet Sleddale to Mosedale Cottage
Thursday
10th April 2008
BB0813
: What's It All About, Tony?
Thursday
17th April 2008
BB0814
: The Hidden Mountain
Tuesday
22nd April 2008
BB0815
: The Bowland CROW
Thursday
1st May 2008
BB0816
: High Cup Nick:
The Gurt La'al Canyon
Wednesday
7th May 2008
BB0817
: Travelling Light
Wednesday
14th May 2008
BskiB08 : Bootski Boys in the Sella Ronda
23rd February - 1st March
Click on the photos for an enlargement or related large
picture.
Wainwrights
Bryan
has kindly produced a log of which Wainwrights have
been done by which BOOTboy
in the "modern" era, i.e. since the advent
of Bootboys.
To
download the Excel file click on Wainwrights.
If
anyone wants to claim other peaks, please let me know
and I will submit them to the adjudication committee!
BOOT
boys
This page describes an adventure of BOOTboys, a loose group of friends of mature
years who enjoy defying the aging process by getting out into the hills as
often as possible!
As most live in South Lakeland, it is no surprise that
our focus is on the Lakeland fells and the Yorkshire Dales.
As for the name, BOOTboys, it does not primarily derive from an
item of footwear but is in memory of Big
Josie, the erstwhile landlady of
the erstwhile Burnmoor Inn at Boot in Eskdale, who enlivened Saint Patrick's Day
1973 and other odd evenings many years ago!
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