Three Peaks Challenge - June 2007

Back from the Dales...

2006-10-30T12:33:00.000Z

We are back from Yorkshire! Our luck with the weather so far this year ran out in style when it bucketed (literally) down with rain all day on Saturday. We stuck with the original plan of splitting into two groups... one would do the Three Peaks and the other would do Two Peaks... or so we thought?

In the end my group (the Two Peakers) ended up just doing Whernside. On the way up, we were stopped when section of path had turned into 10 metre wide raging torrent...

...so we ended up taking a detour, going across 2k of muddy bogs and moorland, using a map that resembled a used bog roll within an hour (cos Sam 'borrowed' my map case) in order to get back on the path. By the time we got down the Hill Inn, we were drenched.

The Three Peakers did far better. They (apparently) waded across this raging torrent and stormed up Whernside and Ingleborough with relative ease. Unfortuately, due to the rain / cold and several knee injuries, only three managed to tackle the final summit... and got the T-shirts to prove it:

From Left to Right... Jonjo, Sam (Vice Prez) and Phil (Minister of Happiness)

Sunday was a complete contrast to Saturday:

We ended up doing a chilled out waterfall walk, before heading to the pub, where we bumped into a lovely bunch of fellow hikers from Soton Uni. All in all, a good weekend!

Anyone who is interested in doing the Three Peaks...

2006-10-12T00:03:00.000+01:00

... should go on our second trip!

We are going to the Yorkshire Dales at the end of October and splitting into two groups. One group will be doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks, which is 40km, up 3 mountains with a combined height of over 2000 metres. This will be a hard slog, especially as you are doing it all in the space of 10 - 12 hours. However, it will be some good endurance practice if you are serious about conquering the bigguns! :)

The other group will be doing a slightly easier walk and will probably be doing two out of the three...

Interested? Come along on Thursday, 8.30pm in the Sports Bar and sign up!

The first meeting...

2006-09-29T10:21:00.000+01:00

... went really well. Loads of people turned up and our first trip filled up with the space of an hour. There was a fair bit of interest in the Three Peaks (3PC), which is good to see. However, it is still a bit early as yet to start planning things.

We (Myself, Gwen, Rachel, Calum & Phil) are off to spend the weekend hiking around Exmoor with Mark Dodwell and the guys over at the climbing club.

I am looking to get them involved in 3PC, especially as they are the other big outdoors club at Brookes. This weekend will be the first opportunity for the clubs to get to know each other, so I'll raise the 3PC with my counterpart at some point on Saturday.

Lets just hope it doesn't rain!

Have a good weekend

Jon

Us vs them???

2006-09-18T11:07:00.000+01:00

This is just an idea at this stage... at the moment I can't do much until after Freshers Week, so as to gauge the levels of interest there is in this venture.

I am considering getting in touch with other university clubs and bringing in some competition. Most Unis have some form of Walking / Hiking / Mountaineering / Climbing Society, so if things go well over the next few weeks, I'll be getting in touch with various other clubs. We already have some contacts with Aberystwyth Walking Club from last year

This way, we could raise loads more money for charity, hopefully get more sponsership and create some more permanent links with fellow clubs.

Anyway, off to uni to spend all day sorting out stuff for the Freshers Fair. We are right next door to those heretics over at the climbing club, so we've gonna put on a good show! :)

Take it easy

Jon

A Big Hello to Everyone!

2006-09-16T12:38:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the Oxford Brookes Three Peak Challenge Homepage!

This will eventually become the fully flung centre of operations for the OBMS Three Peak Challenge. I've taken my inspiration from these guys and gals, who set up a webpage as well.

My website 'skillz' are not renowned, so this looks a bit crap at the moment, but I've summoned a few Gremlins and am exorcising them as we speak, so hopefully, it will start looking half decent in the next few weeks!

Take it easy

Jon