Hi Folks
Another busy week rounded off with a fabulous weekend off training for the Trek.
Friday was a quiet one, just a couple of miles on the sand dunes at Lytham then we stepped it up a bit on Saturday with a hike up the steep slopes of Parlick (summit 1417ft) which is in the Bowland fells of Lancashire. As the pictures will show (when I've uploaded them!)The top was covered in fog which made navigation a little tricky and I was a little less than chuffed with being guided into a peat bog!!!! Anyway it was a good wee training exercise and as they keep telling me, its character building (what with that and the moonlit hike across the pennines the other week I must have some character by now!!)
Today we came a little closer to home for a trek in the Lake District, taking in Ashness Bridge, Watendlath and Bowder Stone. Again we got some great pics (which will soon be uploaded)I saw a red squirrel which for some reason Scott wouldn't let me chase, something to do with endangered speices or something like that, hmmph,I only wanted to say hello!! Anyway, the terrain was a bit rough and we had to work really hard to remain injury free. Check out Trav TV (soon) to see me and Scott in action. Bowder Stone is an immense isolated boulder left by retreating glaciers during the last Ice Age. It's estimated to weigh more than 2000 tons!!! (Cheers ordnance survey for that info, guide dogs are a bit rubbish at describing geological features!!)
Highlights of the weekend for me were watching my mate Tigga getting chucked in Derwent Water because she'd rolled in sheep poo, and of course the bonios at lunchtime!!
Hope anyone thinking of joining the trek is doing at least a little bit of training to try and keep up with me and Scott, but be careful on them there hills!!!
Follow this blog for some important updates regarding joining the trek coming soon and I promise to get the photos uploaded soon.
Woof woof
Travis
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