Kirsty's Blog - 2006
Hi,
my name is Kirsty Brien, I am an Outdoor Pursuits Instructor and
Adventure travel Guide. I am also a member of YMC and this is my blog
of 2006. You won't often see me down the Bay 'oss on a Thursday night
as I live out in the sticks but I'm always there in spirit. I do club
thing on a weekend unless I am away with work! I would like to share
with you some of my favorite photos of the year, mostly taken whilst at
work! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Can
you believe I get
paid for this!..... ;-)
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Spring
Jordan
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| After a walk through the narrow
winding siq (gorge)- its
there, Indiana Jones
style- the
treasury at Petra. |
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The most
awesome lunch-spot! (sadly climbing on this stuff is a bit frowned
upon...)Petra, Jordan
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| Ive said it few
times, but will
again... WADI RUM IS AWESOME, it has BILLIONS of routes waiting to be
climbed
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Baby camels, how
cute..wouldn't want to mess with its
mum though.. Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan |
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Not quite sure this
picture
capture just
how completely BONKERS this Arab endurance racing horse was- obviously
'whoa'
didn't translate into Jordanian.
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Summer
Northumberland
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Lobo,
Skippy, Laura and Tracey (leading) discovering the delights of cragging
on superb
sandstone at Bowden Doors (under 3 hours from York..) ..ok maybe Lobo
and Skip didn't
quite
appreciate the merits of solid sandstone climbing, but you get the
point...
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another
awesome Northumberland crag- 10 mins walk, Kyloe Crag, Dave leading
the 3 star Flake Crack |
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Lost..well
not really, appreciating the wildlife en-route to St. Cuthberts cave
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..Northumberland's
other great attraction.. the fantastic beaches below Bamburgh Castle
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Mid Summer
Iceland and the
Laugervagur Trail
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The
spectacular mountain scenery at the start of the Laugervagur Trail,
Southern Iceland
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Awesome
volcanic mountain scenery en route to Thorsmork
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The team
looking towards the icecaps high on the trail
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...how much
better does it get?? The view towards camp at the Alfavatn Lakes,
awesome, (although due to the group's inability to cope with scree it
took nearly 4 hours to get there...)
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| Rekjavik-
a
place where a BLT, chips and a beer really does come to a
modest...£27.00 |
The Peruvian Andes
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The
fantastic Inca ruins of Sacsayhuaman (pronounced sexy woooman!!)
just outside of Cusco
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...'Happy Birthday, Son', we
couldn't find a suitable dog... so we got you an alpaca...
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Macchu Picchu...ok weve all seen
it on the travel programmes and I hate to say it, but it is 1000 times
more spectacular up close...
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...lazing the afternoon away on
a boat made of reeds floating between the Uros Islands at 4000m alt. on
Lake Titicaca
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.....thoughtful or p*ssed off.??
..you decide... Island Statue, Lake Titicaca
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Late Summer
The Pyrenees
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leading a pitch at
Auzat, near the French Pyrenees
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A day in the mountains, myself
and Tenk en-route to the Andorran border....
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Andorra was a bit ambitious for one day and heading back down for a
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Autumn
Morocco's High Atlas
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...sightseeing in the
Spectacular
Todra Gorge... sun, awesome rock, massive routes... oh and the
inconvinience of having to look after a gaggle of 13 year olds from
Wimbledon...ho hum
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The campsite view of the
ruined fortess of 'AArg' (sounds all a bit Monty-python-esque to me)
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..a bona fide camel train, heading
into the high Atlas from Todra
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...smalll berber child, swiftly
polishing off a weeks supply of biscuits...bloomin nomads...
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Winter
At home and some of my favorite local shots
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a holly hedge.. the back
field...kilburn
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Sunrise over Terrington
Bank...and here's to 2007
Love
Kirsty
PS. For more information about what I do follow this link
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