First UK Hill

On 25 Aug 2004 04:11:25 -0700, [email hidden] (Flat Earth

Society) said:

Mine was Penygadair (age 12)

My son's was Ben Nevis (age 9) !

Penshaw Hill, Co. Durham, aged about 5. Was disappointed we couldn't
climb to the top of the Partheneon-style folly at the summit.

John D.
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Adrian Tupper said:

[email hidden] (RJ Webb) wrote in news:412d1393.3897000
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First English hill, I can remember was High Vinnalls, Herefordshire -
and I have been up over a hundred times since.

Did that only last year. Very muddy.

Not always... There is a road up. Biked and skied this hill. The
quickie route is a mudbath mind - reconstituted silurian seabed sludge
of a fetching yellow colour.

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The first 3000' er must have been Helvellyn.

Beinn Tulaichean

Richard Webb

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Penshaw Hill, Co. Durham, aged about 5. Was disappointed we couldn't
climb to the top of the Partheneon-style folly at the summit.

Was up that recently in the haar.. I did not know about the monument,
and had a hell of a surprise as the mist parted!

Richard Webb

Quoted message said:

Penshaw Hill, Co. Durham, aged about 5. Was disappointed we couldn't
climb to the top of the Partheneon-style folly at the summit.

Was up that recently in the haar.. I did not know about the monument,
and had a hell of a surprise as the mist parted!

Richard Webb

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Quoted message said:

Penshaw Hill, Co. Durham, aged about 5. Was disappointed we couldn't
climb to the top of the Partheneon-style folly at the summit.

Was up that recently in the haar.. I did not know about the monument,
and had a hell of a surprise as the mist parted!

Richard Webb

Is that anywhere near the Nissan factory and the North-East Aircraft Museum?

Nick

Mine must have been Castle Hill near Huddersfield, an Iron Age hill fort
with the Victoria Tower on top. In WWII, when I was a kid, getting to
anything higher was difficult.

--
Dave F

[email hidden] (RJ Webb) wrote in news:412f12a5.13789640
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Adrian Tupper said:

[email hidden] (RJ Webb) wrote in news:412d1393.3897000
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Quoted message said:

First English hill, I can remember was High Vinnalls, Herefordshire -
and I have been up over a hundred times since.

Did that only last year. Very muddy.

Not always... There is a road up. Biked and skied this hill. The
quickie route is a mudbath mind - reconstituted silurian seabed sludge
of a fetching yellow colour.

Quoted message said:

The first 3000' er must have been Helvellyn.

Beinn Tulaichean

Odd one for a first.

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Adrian

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Mine was Penygadair (age 12)

My son's was Ben Nevis (age 9) !

Muckleborough Hill, Weybourne, Norfolk. Via the West Ridge - not for the
faint-hearted ;-)