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Title: New Member
Post by: Big G on 15:09:34, 30/03/20
Hi folks,
Just joined after looking up 'walking forum's. Thought that if I can't get out there and do it, I can at least read about it! Having recently retired I bought a small second hand day van to use as a base for my hill walking forays. What a disappointment then, that this awful pandemic has appeared on the scene and necessitated an imposed exile from the hills! To combat any loss of condition I've taken to doing 'hill repeats' in my local park.  I chuck on my hill bag, filled with the usual kit for a day's walk and then run up/walk down the gentle slope in the park opposite my home. Good exercise whilst adhering to the Covid guidelines. How's everybody else coping?
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: gunwharfman on 15:12:37, 30/03/20
Not well enough, I'm already bored and my wife keeps giving me little jobs to do to 'keep me out of mischief!'
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 15:15:47, 30/03/20
Ah yes....my good lady is still working, so any 'little jobs are of my choosing.  ;)
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Post by: ninthace on 15:51:58, 30/03/20
Welcome from Devon.  I find postimage repeatedly locking up so you have to reboot and start again, when you are trying to write a post with a lot of pictures in it, fills the day.  :-\
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: AB_Shrewhiker9 on 16:28:15, 30/03/20
Afternoon Big G,


New to the forum myself today so "Welcome" i suppose.
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: vghikers on 16:38:26, 30/03/20
Welcome from Manchester  O0
Whereabouts are you?.
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 17:41:54, 30/03/20
Afternoon Big G,


New to the forum myself today so "Welcome" i suppose.
Cheers mate...strange/interesting time to join this site.
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 17:49:36, 30/03/20
Welcome from Manchester  O0
Whereabouts are you?.


Hey! I'm in Bristol. No hills here. Regular forays into the Brecon Beacons and Dartmoor on the doorstep (kind of) !
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Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 17:58:10, 30/03/20
Welcome from Aberdeenshire. We have plenty of hills here, but all are a bit too far to walk to from the front door.
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 19:21:55, 30/03/20
Welcome from Aberdeenshire. We have plenty of hills here, but all are a bit too far to walk to from the front door.
Had a trip planned to Torridon in May... Liathach & Slioch...sadly, no more. Postponed til whenever the sun rises again!
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Post by: sunnydale on 19:35:11, 30/03/20
Hi B.G & welcome from the Peak District O0
I’m currently coping fine, thanks for asking!
Lots of options walking wise for me from my doorstep & I’m actually starting to appreciate my local area a lot more than I did. 8)


Tracey :)
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 19:47:15, 30/03/20
Hi B.G & welcome from the Peak District O0
I’m currently coping fine, thanks for asking!
Lots of options walking wise for me from my doorstep & I’m actually starting to appreciate my local area a lot more than I did. 8)


Tracey :)


Hi Tracey, Lovely you can walk from your front door. Shame so many folk are ignoring the guidelines and driving miles to walk. I'm originally from Cheshire and sometimes wish I'd stayed there, but fate held a different path. Hey ho... walks abound....miles dissolve beneath my wheels and paradise awaits in the mountains....looking forwards to life after 'the virus'  :D
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Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 22:07:35, 30/03/20
Had a trip planned to Torridon in May... Liathach & Slioch...sadly, no more. Postponed til whenever the sun rises again!
We had been hoping to get across to the Torridon, as we haven’t managed to get across in the last 2 years. Before that we were across once or twice a year for 7 years or so. We normally stay in Shieldaig.
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Jac on 09:07:14, 31/03/20
Welcome from a hop and a skip down the M5 in Exeter.

Dartmoor and the SWCP might as well be on the moon at the moment but it will pass :)
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Post by: richardh1905 on 12:17:05, 31/03/20
Welcome to the forum from South Cumbria.


Coping pretty well up here, as I have some delightful country right on my doorstep.


Take a peek - http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=40060.0 (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=40060.0)
Title: Re: New Member
Post by: Big G on 12:43:31, 31/03/20
Welcome to the forum from South Cumbria.


Coping pretty well up here, as I have some delightful country right on my doorstep.

YES alright! Lucky for some  :D  Enjoy yourself...soak it up for the rest of us going mad in exile.  :-\

Take a peek - http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=40060.0 (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=40060.0)