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jimmy connell

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WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« on: 22:16:56, 14/10/12 »
well my first was galarmara via thornywaithe fell jim O0
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #1 on: 22:45:39, 14/10/12 »
scafell pike.  Start at the top work down.


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dazednbruised

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #2 on: 07:34:49, 15/10/12 »
My first was Old Man of Coniston. If it's not a classed as a fell, apologies.
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #3 on: 09:07:20, 15/10/12 »
If we are talking in the Lakes, Pavey Arc by Jacks Rake.

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #4 on: 13:49:53, 15/10/12 »
In the Lakes it was Yoke on the Fairfield Horseshoe. What a pillock - I mean the Kentmere Round!
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #5 on: 15:12:20, 15/10/12 »
Great Calva - 29 years ago  :)

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #6 on: 15:50:24, 15/10/12 »
In the Lakes, Coniston Old Man in 1976.
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #7 on: 22:48:30, 16/10/12 »
Dent as it's right on my doorstep.
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #8 on: 23:43:18, 16/10/12 »
Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales then Skiddaw in the Lake District.

For the Ingleborough walk I had no proper gear. It was winter with snow on the ground. I had a plastic coat - which I wore on my Lambretta (sad I know), some Tuff leather shoes and probably jeans - I didn't know any better at the time - and a woolly jumper. On the plus side, it was a lovely day and I was hooked!

By the time I graduated to Skiddaw, I had graduated to "proper" gear. I had a cheap nylon kagoule, some equally cheap Polish walking boots, an old fabric rucksack (not sure where that came from), the same woolly jumper and some non jeans (can't recall exactly what). Still loved it.

When you look at what AW used to walk in and I look at what I wore in the early days, I sometimes wonder whether all this high tech stuff and high cost stuff is really essential to enjoy walking - but I still buy it!

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #9 on: 00:06:26, 17/10/12 »
Whernside for me in the lovely Yorkshire Dales  O0

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #10 on: 13:02:53, 17/10/12 »
Holme Fell if it's only in the Lakes.....Pen y ghent if we aren't  :)
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #11 on: 15:49:44, 17/10/12 »
Haven't been to any fells yet  :-[
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #12 on: 16:14:55, 17/10/12 »
Pen y ghent .... always had a soft spot for it since, despite not seeing a soddin thing all the way up & all the way down due to poor visibility.
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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #13 on: 21:45:02, 17/10/12 »
Cannot recall, I was a kid at the time! Family holiday.

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Re: WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST FELL!
« Reply #14 on: 22:41:02, 17/10/12 »
Loughrigg Fell, from Ambleside.


My Dad was an experienced mountaineer and took us boys fellwalking, wild camping, long line fishing in Morcambe Bay, trout tickling in lakeland streams, spinning for bass in Walney Channel, beach casting for codling, fly fishing for sea trout and all sorts of  sporting activities unheard of today. My first real walking experience, like my brothers before me,  was Loughrigg Fell. But on my initiation it started to snow and our legs in short pants were getting numb, so we had to abort and go back.


I was 7 years old at the time, and, like everybody else in those days, never had long pants until I was 12. Clothes rationing had not long finished but food was still on ration. I think a lot on this Forum will find that hard to believe.
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