h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As long as you're not trying to read them halfway up a cliff, whilst hanging on with one hand.

Pillar Rock is on the side of Pillar Mountain and is, I'm told, the only peak in the Lake District that is impossible to reach the top of without climbing (as opposed to walking up). It's fairly close to the Black Sale youth hostel, since that's where we'll be staying.

Not when you lean on them when wearing a black jumper you wont.

*grins*
I guess not but mostly my climbing gear is all fluorescent icky colours and turquoise...
*waves her climbing shoes*
Look, pretty colours, and it matches my rope and belt

*looks enviously at Bagpuss*
Ooh Blacksail...otherwise known as the hut but oooh I'd so like to go there...I've been to loads of them in that area but I've always wanted to go there. We're meant to be doing the coast to coast next year and we get to play there...well collapse there, one or the other

Collapsing would be my bet.

Me too, it's on about day 7 or 8 I think so I may be more crawling by then...collapsing probably comes on day 5...having said that it could go the other way entirely as I have been known to start running at the end of 20 mile walks as I suddenly find energy when I the ends in sight.
*grins*
It doesn't half annoy people when I get to the end running and bouncing and grinning and then they all plod up half collapsed

Blacksail is it, I might have knwon I'd spelt it wrongly? Should be great fun, though we're not doing anything energetic like walking there (except that the rules apparently only allow one car down the track and I bet it won't be mine).

Just make sure you are in the passenger seat.

Or at the worse case the boot

*looks intrigued*
Do you know about Blacksail? It being the oldest and highest and coldest youth hostel in the world?
*considers sulking*
When are you going? Take photos and then I can whine at you afterwards

Hmmm. My own thought on the matter is, "Are they really going to check?"

Coldest? Not when we're in charge of how much wood goes on the fire. It's also pretty remote, though there's a pub only a few miles away - over the mountain.

30th December - 2nd January.

I'll definitely be taking photos - New Years Eve = smart dress. Also I want to use up my film because there are some incriminating photos on it, which really need to be added to the LUU Christian Focus website.

Definitely coldest...and in December, I froze in November.

OOh are you wearing a Tux? Do you get a BMW as well???
*gets images of James Bond*
Ooooh...photos, photos!!!

Bad luck Burnsy.

Ay. And after I managed to wrest one of the teles in the Brickies away from Celtic supporters. There's always next year.

I shall be wearing my suit; I'm not going to hire a tux until my graduation ball. My car is a Rover, which are owned by BMW (last time I checked - I lose track), so sort of, though I don't remember Bond driving round in a 213S.

Do you do the eyebrow?

Uggg....

Ropeless is much more fun

Not Germany... that'd be fun though.... *thinks...* does anyone have a camper van thing round here? They're great for climbing from...

Can't do the eyebrow, no.

I'm sure ropeless is fun, but I don't mind being safe, too.

*wonders why the ugg was there, considers taking it personally*

Ropeless is more fun but if it's the first time you've done a certain climb and it's an extreme one then it's best to use a rope...and if it's one over a ridiculously silly river like the ones in Matlock, as having canoed down the rapids in that I would certainly not like to fall in it...well again and from a height...

You must be able to do the eyebrow thing...
*studies Bagpuss' eyebrows carefully*
...aah go on...

Oh and I looked in my chalk covered climbing books and possibly found the climb...which route are you taking or don't you know yet?

I'm not entirely sure what the Fish was replying to either.

*raises left eybrow - the right one decides to follow it*
See?

The shortest climb and we're only doing it weather permitting. Given that I've not climbed out of doors before and I may well be the third most experienced climber in the group, we're not trying anything difficult.

"Uggg" was just a random statement.... nothing personal

A likely story...

*goes to look in her book to try and work out which climb it is*
It'll be so fun

Ooo! Where abouts you going?

Climbing on slippery wet rock is loads of fun... (I always end up with achie knees though )