Journal: June 2009

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Going up and going fast
Wed 11/11/09 (Link to this entry)

As I write this I am still somewhat residually knackered from this weekend's exertions (although the weekly badminton session tonight probably has a lot to do with it too!). Despite our better judgement, my housemate Hannah and I organised a bunch of our workmates and friends to go and climb Mount Snowdon, Wales' highest peak, on Saturday. It was a great weekend, even if the weather got a bit iffy at times!

We stayed at a bunkhouse near Llanberis run by a wonderful old chap who calls himself Jesse James and is brimming over with character. It was a great call by Hannah, as it was a really good laugh having everyone staying there - I can highly recommend it, and I'm sure we'll be back there sometime. The bunkhouse's website is here, if you're interested: http://www.jessejamesbunkhouse.co.uk/ (he's not joking about the flapjack, it's awesome).

In a slight departure from my usual photo-posting style, I'm going to link up the Facebook gallery I created from the weekend on the basis that it's publicly-visible and it saves me some effort. The album is here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2037678&id=1079678044&l=1aeb5dc129 - just click an image to view it larger (along with captions and comments). I can't resist posting this one, though:

Yes, it really did look that epic. As you can tell from Hannah's expression, she thought so too! While some of the others took the more well-trodden Pyg track, those of us in the pic above went up via Crib Goch, a route which is not for the faint-hearted, particularly in high winds and rain/snow/sleet/hail/fog (which is what we got hit with when we reached the main ridge). It was a bit hairy at times but absolutely great fun, and well worth the effort. All in all, a good weekend's work :-)

So that's the "going up" bit for this post, what about the "going fast" bit? Well, that happened earlier today - the Lab team at Sun (with a few select guests) went for a wee karting event, a matter of some pleasure for me since it's the first time they've organised it while I've actually been around to attend. It went pretty well, too - despite not having driven a kart for over two years, I qualified on pole and won the subsequent race, with the fastest lap time to boot by about seven tenths. All in all, a good day's work :-)

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