Outdoor Education, Walking, climbing, natural history, geology, palaeontology and outdoors stuff. Munro & Top compleator
Surrey
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I am quietly starting to migrate over to blue sky to escape some of the robots.
Please feel free to follow me over on
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Are you passionate about something? Do you know something inside out where others barely give it a glance?
Everyone's a geek about something. And that's wonderful.
ALT Everyone’s a geek about something sketch featuring people enjoying activities like birdwatching, gaming, football, ballet, reading, and hiking.
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Demise of the Pasterze (AT) icefall over the last 8 years! 🔥
This south-facing icefall was the last to feed the valley tongue, and it will be cut off anytime soon, likely next summer, leaving a dead ice body below 🧊📈
Source @GeoSphere_AT
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Jokes That Only Geologists Will Fully Understand 😀😎😀
Geology Giggles: Show Us Your Rock-Solid Jokes! In The comments 🪨
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The earliest record for all snow in Scotland disappearing is 23rd August, which happened in 2003. If significant falls of fresh snow do not occur in the next four weeks or so then that early date will be trounced this summer.
I have never seen the hills so denuded of snow in mid March.
📷 SAIS Lochaber - lochaberblog.sais.gov.uk/202…
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Do you know the 4Ts of #type1diabetes? They are:
🚽 Toilet (needing a wee more)
🚰 Thirsty
💤 Tired
⬇️ Thinner
If you’re already familiar with the 4Ts, will you share this post to make sure more people know the signs of type 1 diabetes?
ALT The image shows text that reads 'Know the 4Ts of type 1 diabetes'. There are four graphics with the following text; toilet, thirsty, tired, and thinner.
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March 9, 1847, Mary Anning died #OTD. Self-taught fossil collector from Lyme Regis, she discovered complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurii, Plesiosaurus & Dimorphodon, pioneering the study of coprolites - or fossilized poo - & molluscs
lyellcollection.org/doi/full…
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Today's whiskey trivia:
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!
Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX
So sad
A true gentleman.
An infectious enthusiast
He always had time to pass on friendly advice, or just chat when I had the privilege of meeting him whilst working as a Post Grad / Post Doc at the Natural History Museum
RIP
British geologist Richard Alan Fortey passed away today at the age of 79. An expert on fossils & the stratigraphy of the Ordovician, he was also a passionated science popularizer
youtube.com/watch?v=mPFpaGFl…
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March 7, 1785, Scottish farmer & naturalist James Hutton presents his full theory of the Earth at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
youtube.com/watch?v=o-bPC5ML…
Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem
We are hiding 🫣behind the cairn on Fell end, looking NW across Slei Gill up broad reentrant to Low Moor, marking change from improved to unimproved land
🔴 is the 1st obvious reentrant downstream from the bend in the gill. Wall crosses higher up
Map Reading Task 292
Where precisely was the photo taken?
Identify the feature circled.
photo credit @ABTheAdventure
video answer for Patreon subscribers this evening
#mapreading
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their model was based on unpublished crystallographic data by British biochemist Rosalind Franklin, who was credited only a decade later.
Franklin worked also on modern classification of coal types and carbon-minerals
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February 28, 1953, Francis Crick & James Watson announce "We have discovered the secret of life" - the structure of the double-helix DNA-molecule 🧬
But... X
Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem
Hmm 🤨
I think we are in Crowden Clough
📷 1 we are looking NW upstream, along a FB . 2nd FB approx 100m N cuts back NE up slope. 🔴 crag at head of valley. Gorge to R
📷2 we are looking NE up dry reentrant. Possibly FB contouring across at BoS
Map Reading Task #291
Two photos taken from the same location looking in different directions. Identify:
The precise photo location
The feature circled
@harveymaps SuperWalker used with permission.
(video answer for Patreon subscribers this eve.)
#mapreading #peakdistrict
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Geography trivia: this map shows all the tripoints of Europe. These are the points where three countries meet.
Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem
We are at the trig S of Abbotside, 422 OD
Looking NW along Aldery, Hitter Hill, Parkhouse and Chrome Hill
🔴 in distance and slightly to N is ??? top of Hollins Hill
This is also >420 OD ie same height
However….if I cheat and look on 1:25 it is 450 OD
Map Reading Task number 290
Identify the photo location and the feature circled.
Which is higher? (give elevations)
Can you identify any other significant features?
Patreon subscribers receive task and detailed video answer this evening
#mapreading
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That's our planet. Look at how small our fresh water, agriculture, and forest surface areas are. We better take good care of them. Source: buff.ly/3A7leRE
