COVID-19 My Coronavirus Mount Everest Climbing and Fundraising Challenge

@YvonneBlue - thanks for reminding me that I got to the top of Nicky Nook last Thursday; it was on the way to the Lakes! Thanks for the offer of sponsorship.

@Wiebke - today for the first time I woke up with incredibly stiff legs! Still managing my daily 45m climb, but it hurts more on top of the jelly legs!
 
Posyrose said:
@YvonneBlue - thanks for reminding me that I got to the top of Nicky Nook last Thursday; it was on the way to the Lakes! Thanks for the offer of sponsorship.

@Wiebke - today for the first time I woke up with incredibly stiff legs! Still managing my daily 45m climb, but it hurts more on top of the jelly legs!
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I have upped my daily climb to 53 m (2x10 stairs), and have had some stiff legs this morning, too. But I am overall less panting and will have got used to doing more stairs in a day or two... You'll get there, too, @Posyrose . Exercise is always about pushing your limits.

But I have climbed the highest point of my home village this afternoon at 491 m.
You have some great views into the Jura on three sides but can also see the Black Forest to the Northwest - which I will tackle later later on once I get to the more interesting parts!

With the Black Forest in the distance
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More Jura mountain views
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My mum is sending her regards but says she misses her walks and feels a rather cooped up at home all on her own all the time due to old age shielding... She will be turning 80 years in a couple of months with any celebrations cancelled. :(
 
piggieminder said:
This is such a lovely idea @Wiebke and @Posyrose . Well done both of you I hope you make lots of money for TEAS, I will make a donation. I like @David Piggie Lover idea of putting change in a jar. It will be interesting to see how much we get from our trip to the local shop for essentials.
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I pop in this morning £1.85
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It's the pink one. . Florence not impress as was :zzz: time
 
I can't believe I only just found this thread - what a brilliant idea!
I have lots of stairs in my home and my original idea what to climb the Matterhorn, but sadly my knee replacement is failing, and I have been set the goal of trying to make the current one last another 12-18 months becasue I am considered a bit young to be going in for replacement number 2. So no stairs for me.
Usually I swim (it's kinder on my knee), but obviously all the pools are closed, and it's still a bit chilly for the local lake.
So I have decided that I will join you all, but I will be cycling from the village of Lachen on the edge of Lake Zurich to Basel.
I picked this route becasue Lachen is close by and beautiful place to start, and I am aiming for Basel becasue I can meet Wiebke there for coffee when I finish my ride. :D
I can only ride a couple of days a week and the total distance isn't as impressive as some, but I think it is good to have a goal and will be fun to join in.
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Swissgreys said:
I can't believe I only just found this thread - what a brilliant idea!
I have lots of stairs in my home and my original idea what to climb the Matterhorn, but sadly my knee replacement is failing, and I have been set the goal of trying to make the current one last another 12-18 months becasue I am considered a bit young to be going in for replacement number 2. So no stairs for me.
Usually I swim (it's kinder on my knee), but obviously all the pools are closed, and it's still a bit chilly for the local lake.
So I have decided that I will join you all, but I will be cycling from the village of Lachen on the edge of Lake Zurich to Basel.
I picked this route becasue Lachen is close by and beautiful place to start, and I am aiming for Basel becasue I can meet Wiebke there for coffee when I finish my ride. :D
I can only ride a couple of days a week and the total distance isn't as impressive as some, but I think it is good to have a goal and will be fun to join in.
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What a great idea! Send us pictures from the places you pass on your way!
Great to have somebody else join the challenge for mutual support and more fun!
And to hopefully raise a bit of money for TEAS, seeing that it is rather unlikely that I am going to be baking this year.
 
Reaching Dunkery Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor at 519 m, deserves a coffee break and a naughty danish (courtesy of battling the supermarket where more and more people seem to ignore distancing), doesn't it?
And enoying the wonderful view from up there!

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Swissgreys said:
I can't believe I only just found this thread - what a brilliant idea!
I have lots of stairs in my home and my original idea what to climb the Matterhorn, but sadly my knee replacement is failing, and I have been set the goal of trying to make the current one last another 12-18 months becasue I am considered a bit young to be going in for replacement number 2. So no stairs for me.
Usually I swim (it's kinder on my knee), but obviously all the pools are closed, and it's still a bit chilly for the local lake.
So I have decided that I will join you all, but I will be cycling from the village of Lachen on the edge of Lake Zurich to Basel.
I picked this route becasue Lachen is close by and beautiful place to start, and I am aiming for Basel becasue I can meet Wiebke there for coffee when I finish my ride. :D
I can only ride a couple of days a week and the total distance isn't as impressive as some, but I think it is good to have a goal and will be fun to join in.
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Great to have you join us @Swissgreys, I look forward to updates on your travels!
 
Wiebke said:
Reaching Dunkery Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor at 519 m, deserves a coffee break and a naughty danish (courtesy of battling the supermarket where more and more people seem to ignore distancing), doesn't it?
And enoying the wonderful view from up there!

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Well done, you're certainly covering a lot of ground on your travels.

I found the first part of today's climb easier this morning, so I'm hoping that it's the first sign that I'm getting fitter. My arthritic hip made it harder to do the second lot of stair laps.

I haven't reached anywhere exciting today, but plan pictures tomorrow!
 
Yesterday I passed the birth place of Switzerland, the Rütli meadow on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where the first three cantons swore a pact against the Austrian overlords in August 1291 (whence the William Tell myth has come from).
It is just a steep clearing on an even steeper wooded/rocky mountainside that is easily accessible by boat from all the cantons involved in the oath, and it now has got its own ferry landing.
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I think I may re-walk one of my school rambles from the top of the Rütli clearing uphill (lots of serpentines up a quite steep slope!) to the village of Seelisberg (translates as 'Lakelet Mountain') at 800m. We travelled there on the regular lake ferry service from Lucerne and camped by the Seeli (the lakelet) for a week in the Swiss Alps.
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Wiebke said:
I think I may re-walk one of my school rambles from the top of the Rütli clearing uphill (lots of serpentines up a quite steep slope!) to the village of Seelisberg (translates as 'Lakelet Mountain') at 800m. We travelled there on the regular lake ferry service from Lucerne and camped by the Seeli (the lakelet) for a week in the Swiss Alps.
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They made you walk up to Seelisberg?
These Swiss schools are hard core.
I've been up there, but we took the cable car from the ferry landing :nod:
 
Swissgreys said:
They made you walk up to Seelisberg?
These Swiss schools are hard core.
I've been up there, but we took the cable car from the ferry landing :nod:
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As far as I was concerned, there are far too many mountains and uphill climbs in Switzerland. The jaunt up to Seelisberg wasn't actually too bad, comparatively; where I really struggled was climbing UP one of the real mountains at the back of the village (some bits were decidedly too STEEP) and then - o insult of all insults - taking the cable car down again instead of the other way round! I don't do uphill well... 🥵

The worst was when he had an ex-military class teacher who insisted on doing these kinds of mountain rambles with your fully packed rucksack! :yikes:
 
Wiebke said:
Yesterday I passed the birth place of Switzerland, the Rütli meadow on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where the first three cantons swore a pact against the Austrian overlords in August 1291 (whence the William Tell myth has come from).
It is just a steep clearing on an even steeper wooded/rocky mountainside that is easily accessible by boat from all the cantons involved in the oath, and it now has got its own ferry landing.
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Von User:MatthiasKabel - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, File:Ruetli from Brunnen.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

I think I may re-walk one of my school rambles from the top of the Rütli clearing uphill (lots of serpentines up a quite steep slope!) to the village of Seelisberg (translates as 'Lakelet Mountain') at 800m. We travelled there on the regular lake ferry service from Lucerne and camped by the Seeli (the lakelet) for a week in the Swiss Alps.
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What fantastic scenery and insight into Swiss life!
 
Actually I have decided to jump across the chain of mountains behind Seelisberg and spend the evening on a boat crossing Lake Thun (558 m), enjoying a first glimpse of the famous trio Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (which I am bound to be visiting in due time). This is the area where serious mountaineering really took off in the 19th century. Today it is of course very much a tourist trap!

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The town of Thun (pictured above) is at the lower end and Interlaken at the upper end of the lake. If you keep going on travelling up the valley along the next lake, Lake Brienz, to Meiringen where you can see the Reichenbach falls of Sherlock Holmes fame.

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I had to wait for two years until the weather was perfect to take my future husband on a railway day trip to Lucerne via the Brünig Pass to Meiringen; then along the shore of Lake Brienz on to Interlaken (the gate town for the Eiger area) where we boarded a lake cruiser criss-crossing Lake Thun and then picked up a train again at Thun (the landing is conveniently just be the train station) that took us back home via Bern. It was a stunning trip with clear views of the mountains in beautiful sunshine; one of these precious memories that stay with you all life long. Even though it was Easter time, we could sit in our short sleaves on the deck of the ship and look at all the grand snowy peaks!
 
Wiebke said:
Actually I have decided to jump across the chain of mountains behind Seelisberg and spend the evening on a boat crossing Lake Thun, enjoying a glimpse of the famous trio Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (which I am bound to be visiting in due time). This is the area where serious mountaineering really took off in the 19th century. Today it is of course very much a tourist trap!

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The town of Thun (pictured above) is at the lower end and Interlaken at the upper end of the lake. If you keep going on travelling up the valley along the next lake, Lake Brienz, to Meiringen where you can see the Reichenbach falls of Sherlock Holmes fame.

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I had to wait for two years until the weather perfect to take my future husband on a railway day trip to Lucerne via the Brünig Pass to Meiringen; then along the shore of Lake Brienz on to Interlaken (the gate town for the Eiger area) where we boarded a lake cruiser crisscrossing Lake Thun and picked up a train at Thun (the landing is conveniently just be the train station) that took us back home via Bern. It was a stunning trip with clear views of the mountains; one of these precious memories that stay with you. Even though it was Easter time, we could sit in our short sleaves on the deck of the ship and look at all the grand snowy peaks!
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Wow, spectacular scenery 😀
 
Posyrose said:
@Wiebke I'm happy that my 15 laps were easier today.
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The first week or two at the start are always hardest when you have to build up muscle from nothing - your legs are not happy at all! You are hopefully getting past that now and can hopefully be proud of how far you have come already despite your struggles. :tu:

I am not necessarily much less wobbly when I am finished (although I am no longer feeling quite as wiped out and puffed out) but I have noticed that I can increasingly jog instead of walk up the stairs for more laps in one go so I keep on pushing myself as far as I can each time. 10 laps in one go are still very much a stretch for me but I am getting better at them and can hopefully do them all in one jog in another week or so.

This is not a competition; you are setting your own goals. It is about each of us trying to achieve something that we normally would have thought just outside of what we would be able to do. We can always reassess our goals as we get stronger or adjust them to existing physical/health limitations in case one of us pushes too hard.

It is just a way of working on our longer term fitness, having a bit of fun and a sense of pride by visualising our achievements, helping each other to stay motivated and hopefully raise some much needed funds for TEAS, too! ;)
 
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