BOOT boys 2010

2010 Outings

BB1001 : The Most Perfect Winter Day Thursday 7th January
BB1002 : Snowcumabulating Potter Fell Thursday 14th January
BB1003 : A Snowy Equipment Test Thursday 14th January
BB1004 : Leave It To The Professionals Thursday 28th January
BB1005 : That's A Lyth Record Sunday 31st January
BB1006 : Reasons To Be Cheerful, One, Two, Three Thursday 11th February
BB1007 : Can You See Clearly Now? Thursday 18th February
BB1008 : In Memory Of Thomas Williamson Thursday 25th February
BB1009 : Almost a Mountaineer! Wednessday 3rd March
BB1010 : The Beginning Of The End Thursday 11th March
BB1011 : The Free Men on Tuesday Tuesday 16th March
BB1012 : We'll Get Them In Singles, Stanley Thursday 25th March
BB1013 : The Fools on the Hill Thursday 1st April
BB1014 : The Windmills On The Moor Wednesday 7th April
BB1015 : By Lake, Ridge and Wainwright Sunday 11th April
BB1016 : The Ten Lake Tour (+5Ws) Thursday 15th April
BB1017 *: The BessyBOOTboys*** Thursday 22nd April
BB1018 : The Kentmere Challenge Saturday 24th April
BB1019 : Winter in Springtime Thursday 14th May
BB1020 : Red Screes and Sausages Thursday 21st May
BB1021 : The Mile High Club Thursday 27th May
BB1022 : What A Difference A Day Makes Thursday 3rd June
BB1023 : Something Brutal Thursday 10th June
BB1024 : Rendezvous on Haycock Thursday 17th June
BB1025 : The Men of Gragareth Thursday 24th June
BB1026 : The Smardale Round Thursday 1st July
BB1027 : Don't Shun The Shunner! Thursday 8th July
BB1028 : All Around the Edge Thursday 29th July
BB1029 : The Return of Uncle Jamie Thursday 5th August
BB1030 : The Examination Results Thursday 12h August
BB1031 : Nick by Haggis Thursday 19th August
BB1032 : And Then There Were Two Thursday 26th August
BB1033 : A Surplus of Sheepfolds Thursday 2nd September
BB1034 : A Good One For Tony Thursday 23rd September
BB1035 : The Wainwright Triathlon Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd September
BB1036 : The Nine Standards Thursday 30th September
BB1037 : This Is The Way The Wainwrights End Thursday 7th October
BB1038 : A Return To Sanity? Thursday 14th October
BB1039 : A Succession of Scars Thursday 21st October
BB1040 : Three Old Men Of Lochnagar Monday 25th - Friday 29th October
BB1041 : A Whinash Winterscleugh Wander Wednesday 10th November
BB1042 : The Rusland Round Thursday 18th November
BB1043 : The Lion, The Lamb and The Howitzer Thursday 25th November
BB1044 : Down Memory Lane Thursday 2nd December
BB1045 : A Cold Comes Out Thursday 9th December
BB1046 : Uncle Monty's, Please!! Wednesday 29th December

BB10xtra : A Christmas Tale Saturday 25th December
BSB2010 *: BOOTSKIboys* in Zillertal** Saturday 30th January to Saturday 6th February

Wainwrights

To see which Wainwright top was visited on which BB outing
see Which Wainwright When?.

For the latest totals of the mileages, heights and Lakeland Fells Books Wainwrights see: Wainwrights.

Comitibus
or
Companions of the Boot

by Arthur Hugh Sidgwick

You who walked the ways with me
On hill and plain and hollow;
I ask your pardon, frank and free,
For all the things that follow.

Let me at least make one thing clear;
In these I know no name for them
These dreary talks on futile themes,
Dim visions from a dullard's dreams,
At least you take no blame for them.

You cheered my heart, made short the road,
And kept me philanthropic;
I only write this little ode
Which desecrates the topic.

You trode with me the mountain ridge
And clove the cloud wreaths over it;
I take the web of memories
We wove beneath the summer skies
And lo! The ink-spots cover it.

How vain my effort, how absurd.
Considered as a symbol.
How lame and dull the written word
To you the swift and nimble!

How alien to the walker's mind,
Earth-deep, heaven-high, unfillable,
These petty snarls and jests ill-laid
And all the profitless parade
Of pompous polysyllable !

But yet, I feel, though weak my phrase,
My rhetoric though rotten,
At least our tale of Walks and Days
Should not go unforgotten ;

At least some printed word should mark
The walker and his wanderings,
The strides which lay the miles behind
And lap the contemplative mind
In calm, unfathomed panderings.

And one rebuke I need not fear
From those of our profession,
That Walking Essays should appear
To be one long digression.

Let others take the hard high-road
And earn its gift, callosity;
For us the path that twists at will
Through wood and field, and up the hill
In easy tortuosity.

Therefore, companions of the boot,
Joint-heirs of wind and weather,
In kindness take this little fruit
Of all our walks together.

For aught it has of wit or truth
I reckon you my creditors;
Its dullness, errors, want of taste
Inconsequence, may all be placed
To my account, the editor's.

And haply as you skim the work
In skilled, eclectic hurry,
Some word may find the place where lurk
Your memories of Surrey;

Or, as you read and doze and droop
Well on the way to slumberland,
Before you some dim shapes will float,
Austere, magnificent, remote,
Their Majesties of Cumberland.

Dream but awhile and clouds will lift
To show the peaks at muster,
The driving shadows shape and shift
Before the hill-wind's bluster.

Below far down the earth lies spread
With all its care and fretfulness,
But here the crumpled soul unfolds,
And every rock-strewn gully holds
The waters of Forgetfulness.

So dream, and through your dreams shall roll
The rhythm of limbs free-striding,
Which moulds your being to a whole
And heals the world's dividing;

So dream, and you shall be a man
Free on the open road again;
So dream the long night through, and wake
With better heart to rise and take
The burden of your load again.

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BOOT boys

This pages describe
adventures 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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Wainwrights

To download a log of which Wainwrights have been done by which BOOTboy in the "modern" era, i.e. since the advent of BOOTboys click on Wainwrights.

If anyone wants to claim other peaks, please let me know and I will submit them to the adjudication committee!