#scafell pike

[riottwirls]

Took at the bottom of Scafell Pike

[sebastiancroftupdates]

Bash on Scafell Pike in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England (7 June)

📸 alicesatchell

[jumpneoshoots]

The Mountain

Dec0322

[graaaaceeliz]

Went up Scafell Pike today! We went up the easy route from Wasdale and took several lovely long breaks so it took us between four and five hours to get up to the summit which had incredible views, and then we got caught in the 5pm rain coming down, so that was the end of the rest breaks. My knees are knackered.

[chaoticmusiccollectors]

Scafell pike is England's tallest peak and Wast Water it's deepest lake.

A beautiful location.

One road in and one road out

the lakes

[tim-dennis]

The views from Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon.

All taken within 24 hours.

[micheltaanman-blog]

Engeland - de hoogste berg Scafall Pike

Engeland – de hoogste berg Scafall Pike

[racingliners]

So last year the Aston Martin mechanics did the Three Peaks Challenge immediately after the Qatar GP (climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Yr Wyddfa in 24 hours) for Movember, and this year they're kayaking for 104km.

I'm starting to think everyone at Aston Martin is just insane (affectionate).

[gothycollie]

Trick or Treat!!! :3

You get the top inch from Scafell Pike!

[bonebabbles]

Sharptooth wasn't an escaped cougar

DOTC, in one of the more bizarre retcons, decided that Sharptooth wasn't the sharptooth. He was a sharptooth. There's a whole population of them here.

Are we in England? America? Englerica? Who knows! The writers sure don't! I'm on the Scafell Pike! I'm in the Appalachians! I'm in the combination Scafellpikeappalachians!

Scafellachia.

[blackberrysummerblog]

An ask game for writers to procrastinate working on your WIP(s)

Hey all! Thanks so much for tagging me @wellbelesbian, @aristocratic-otter, @valeffelees, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @ivelovedhimthroughworse and @iamamythologicalcreature! You’ve all correctly determined that I am procrastinating writing.

1. 🐬Tell us the name of your/ one of your WIP(s)

I actually don’t have any that are named at this point. Titles and tags are really difficult for me and I put both off to the last minute and second-guess myself into hell

2. 🍄Decriscribe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___=___”

Popular movie retelling + flying goats = Baz and Dev have A Spot of Bother

3. 🌍What tags or warnings will your / one of your wip(s) need if you intend to share it?

Wraaaugugh, see #1 :P. I don’t know, in seriousness, I think the WIP mentioned above will end up getting a tag for sexual harassment or something like that given the nature of one necessary scene in the movie it’s based on. It’s not going to be worse than the source material, which is PG-13

4. 🧭An alternative title to your/ one of your WIP(s)?

Oh, to have so many ideas for titles that there’s ever an alternative lying around to spare :(

5. ⚠️Which wip your most likely to finish or update next?

I’m pretty likely to finish a sequel to Field Trip of Dreams (SEE WHAT I MEAN about titles?) this week. The eighth years are off on another field trip—this time it’s a weekend training excursion with the Mage. Baz and Simon have been dating for the short time that’s passed since FToD, but they manage to get in a fight on the bus trip to Scafell Pike, and when it turns into a sort-of-tussle the Mage mistakes it for actual animosity and sends them off to a secluded cabin to bang (I mean work🙄) it out. Absolutely everybody but Davy—including the other teachers—knows exactly how much of a “punishment” this is

6. 💾 What is your document of your wip/ a wip called? (not the stories actual title but what you've saved it as)

Practical magic au

7. 🖍️Post Any sentence from your wip

“Shut up, Gareth!” we shout as one, Snow adding a few brutish threats as Gareth pales and turns back around in his seat.

8. ♻️A scrapped idea for your current WIP

I actually can’t remember. I don’t plot my writing out very extensively so in a sense there’s hundreds of little scrapped thoughts rather than anything huge. I’m eliminating a lot of things with my crucible marriage fic, but it’s hard to say right now what’s actually gone or just being moved around. I know a major one I’ve been battling with is that prior to getting dragged off to Pitch Manor by his new husband Baz, I want Simon to have been living with Penny in a flat of their own, but for another aspect of the story I want him to have been living with the Mage in Watford (which is an au mage’s settlement in the fic) as well. There’s ways to work around it for the results I want, I just haven’t written it out yet.

9. 🤔What's a story you'd love to write but haven't even started yet?

I’m pretty sure I have at least a few lines written down for everything I want to write

10. 🤡How many Wips are you actively working on?

Oh, man…actively, probably the field trip one and my COBB. Somewhat less actively: a reverse COBB fic, a sequel to Monsters Under the Bed, a sequel to After Hours where Simon makes good on his promise to despoil Baz on his office desk, and my unending crucible marriage fic. Less active than that: a fic response to a prompt for Simon being the one kidnapped and Baz has to rescue him. There’s probably (cough*definitely*cough) some pretty messed-up OOC smut stuff lying around in my docs as well, that I add to when I’m in the mood and have zero plans to ever post

11. 🛠️Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now?

I keep telling myself to just write and stop worrying about this for the moment, but I’m kind of bumming myself out worrying about whether I want to use first or third person, as well as past or present tense, for my COBB. I think the issue is that some scenes are bound to play out better one way while others would be better served differently. This is not usually a thing I struggle with.

12. ❤️Not a question, just a second kudos to send.

🥰

This was fun! (Once I stopped putting it off, lol). No pressure tagging (and sorry if I get anyone who’s already done it): @cutestkilla, @mooncello, @artsyunderstudy, @prettygoododds, @drowninginships, @hushed-chorus, @bookish-bogwitch, @thewholelemon, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @youarenevertooold, @ileadacharmedlife, @facewithoutheart, @imagineacoolusername, @ic3-que3n

[drastrochris]

I have just made the horrifying realization that Britain is a real place.

This all started when Strange Horticulture mentioned that Scafell Pike is the tallest mountain in England. Which immediately made me realize that Strange Horticulture doesn't just take place in Made Up Fantasy England, but in We Just Changed Windermere to Undermere Fantasy England.

WJCWtU Fantasy England:

That led me to looking this up on google, and discovering that this is the Lake District I've heard about before:

But wait, these names seem familiar. Derwentwater? Ambleside? Those are places in Forza!

That lake in the bottom left is Windermere/Undermere. The lake to the northeast from there is Derwentwater, which is visible in the Lake District map, and would fall off the SH map. The city in the top right corner is Edinburgh, as the Forza map is an artistic interpretation of reality.

So yeah. Britain, as seen in such video games as Forza Horizon 4 and Strange Horticulture, is terrifyingly /real/.

[deweydecimalchickens]

Rest in peace, Iron Joss Naylor, the King of the Fells.

I'll admit I teared up a bit when I found out. I mean it wasn't unexpected; he was 88 and the sheep-farmer-to-legendary-fell-runner progression is hard on the body. Like "how the fuck are you not dead already?" hard on the body. But there's a feeling the world has lost someone unique and great. As far as I'm aware his record for ascending and descending England's highest mountain - Scafell Pike in 47 minutes - has never been beaten.

This is a Guardian reprint from 1972 about his attempt to run 65 Lake District peaks in 24 hours. (The 'standard' Bob Graham Round is 42.)

[bouncehousedemons]

So, Max and I are quite keen climbers - now, when I say keen I don’t mean skilled, I just mean we enjoy it - we’ve climbed Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in The Lake District, Snowden in Wales, basically every peak in the Peak District and Sulphur Mountain and Tunnel Mountain in Canada, plus a bunch more I’ve likely forgotten.

Our dog, Ylva, is not a keen climber. She is a soft little sofa pudding, whose level of activity doesn’t push beyond chasing a ball for 10 minutes and then needing to lay down because her belly is too hot. We have tried in the past to change her mind - we pushed her to climb Mam Tor. It took two attempts and she was so angered by the wind in her ears by the time we reached the top that she had protest diarrhoea all the way back down. We also got her to climb up a cliff on the Isle of Wight, incensed with rage because of the wind in her ears when we got to the top, she had a go at another dog.

We wanted to go climbing today - the mountain we originally chose we’ve done before, and know we can do it easily, but were unsure of how the dog would cope, so we settled on something else. A smaller, but much steeper mountain ridge, where the way back down is a gentle bridleway. Nice and easy, except it wasn’t because Max and I are stupid and didn’t look at the gradient lines on the OS map.

We start climbing, it’s very, very steep, but manageable. All is well.

It continues to get steeper, Max and I take it in turns to hold the dog while we scramble up near vertical incline, all the while chanting the mantra “if it doesn’t get worse than this we’re fine.”

It got worse. Much worse. It shat it down with rain and the wind was blowing a fucking hooly, all the while Ylva is making noises like she’s auditioning to star in a Blue Cross advert.

About three quarters of the way up, the dog is fucking miserable and keeps trying to yeet herself over the edge, and Max and I have decided that the steepness means our hands and feet are no longer cutting it as makeshift crampons. The wind does not want us on this ridge. We are calling it a day.

I am not as sure footed as Max is when it comes to going downhill. I had to get down this near vertical incline (though I suppose now it’s a decline?) by falling and sliding most of the way. My arse is soaked. My waterproof boots are no longer waterproof. The dog is not speaking to us. Poor me. Poor Ylva.

Today we fucked around and found out.

[bonefall]

Ok I do actually like the idea of the Tribe concept of a burial including the construction of a "pelt." Like a bunch of nice things to be buried in, stones or a blanket maybe. Funeral shroud.

You wear the pelt for a while, just to be modest, until you've totally moved on. That's a cute implication and fits the fact that it would be harder to dig in a frozen mountain environment.

(Though to be fair even Scafell Pike, biggest mountain in England, isn't stony like that. There is plenty of turfgrass to dig in.)

[c-h-pictures]

The "Three Peaks" challenge is relatively well known yet most people can't name the English peak.

Because Ben Nevis (1345m) and Yr Wyddfa (1085m) are infinitely more impressive than Scafell Pike (978m)

All pretty though.