Sam's Space

My little bit of something in this big space.
Ilkley Moor HikeFebruary 19, 2020
An 12.7 mile (20.4 km) hike around Ilkley Moor Hike where the average temperature was 4℃. We started at 8:23 on Saturday and altogether the hike took 4h 1m 30s to complete. We managed an average pace of 1.487kph with a max of 2.9kph whilst also climbing 390.2 meters of elevation and an average heart […]
36th Cleveland SurvivalMarch 23, 2019
The 36th annual Cleveland Mountain Rescue survival. Starting in Guisborough heading towards Boosbeck then up Birkbrow on to Commondale, Danby and stopping for lunch at the Yorkshire Cycle Hub for a quick lunch. Then we head back towards Castleton and Commondale and back over the moors towards Guisborough Woods and back down to the start!
Esk Valley LoopMarch 18, 2017
So an early start on Saturday saw us heading further afield into the North Yorkshire moors.  The destination was Castleton Station over in Eskdale, North Yorkshire. The Esk Valley Loop is a famous walk around some beautiful places in the North Yorkshire moors. A ~16 mile loop, some of it along the old Esk Valley […]
Chop Gate to Osmotherley WalkJanuary 21, 2017
So today me and @Cadab decided to go and do a point to point walk from Chop Gate to Sheepwash (Osmotherley). This was one of the first point to point walk that we did across the cleveland way. We parked at Clay Bank car park and got picked up over at Sheepwash car park. It […]
Climbing CarrauntoohilNovember 25, 2016
Im not the best at stringing sentences together so here is a little write-up of mine and @Cadab’s climb of Carrauntoohil, County Kerry, Ireland. An early start on a cold November Friday saw us heading to Leeds Bradford Airport to catch our cheap Ryanair flight to Dublin. We arrived in Dublin around 7.30 and had […]
Snowdon: What we didOctober 22, 2015
The second highest peak in the UK. The highest peak in Wales and England. Snowdon stands at a proud 3,560 ft (1,085 meters) above sea level. On average 360,000 people summit Snowdon every year! On the 17th of October we wanted to add 2 more people onto the total. There are numerous ways to attack […]
Ice Cream, Bowling, Geocaching & Someone very drunk!March 14, 2012
It started late on saturday night. After going to the beach on saturday with @Cadab and Mikey I went home and stayed in as I knew I was taxi driver that night. My fare? @RebekahEsme. She was out with some of her old uni friends in York for an event called ‘Old Jons’. The idea […]
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