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Simon Young Adventure

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Outdoor Education, Walking, climbing, natural history, geology, palaeontology and outdoors stuff. Munro & Top compleator

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SimonYoungAdventure Ready to lend a hand with your Outdoor projects throughout the UK Group or Individual Qualified #ClimbingInstructor and #MountainLeader Experienced #DofE Assessor Munro Compleator Please contact if I can be of help

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Frozen felid love this #FossilFriday 🦁❄️🧊 The remarkable mummified sabre-toothed cub, Homotherium latidens, and Sparta, a 28,000-year-old cave lion cub (Panthera spelaea). Photos of the sabre cub by Lopatin et al. 2024. Photos of Sparta by Alexey Mikhailov.

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Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem We are on 🗺️ B looking E up the Westend Grinah Grain coming in from the N Track on SW half way up slope Major track on NE side descending traverse from shoulder above Grinah 📷 from 100m N of crag above 🌲block, slightly higher than hairpin in track

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Map Reading Task Which map corresponds to the photo? What features help determine your answer? Where exactly on that map was the photo taken? @harveymaps Superwalker map used with licensing agreement. Patreon subscribers receive detailed video answer this evening #mapreading

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A fissure #eruption started near Grindavík, #Reykjanes peninsula, #Iceland November 20th around 23.14 GMT. Its the 10th in the area in 3 and 1/2 years and the 7th within a year. 👉 ruv.is/english

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It is the season to appreciate the names of Scottish gritters #Scotland

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🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

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Is this the highest bench in the world at 5500m? What’s better is that it’s made from recycled plastic!! @incoolcompany @EverestToday

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Thanks for this Ross Wise words that chime well with the work of @MindOMountains

🗣️ I recently spoke to @NHS24 on a period I went through 7 years ago when struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. Two big things in my recovery - not bottling things up and the mental health benefits of the outdoors & exercise. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/L-2nwUAif7I



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Iceland’s volcano eruptions may last decades | #Geology #GeologyPage #volcano Iceland’s ongoing volcanic eruptions may continue on and off for years to decades, threatening the country’s most densely populated region ... Read More: geologypage.com/2024/07/icelan…


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This #badgeographyjoke is the height of humour!

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Amazing waterspout, Madeira Island, Portugal this morning...🌪️ 📽️ Luz Vieira/FB


…but it would still have 150-odd m on K2 🏔️

A river is pushing up Mount Everest’s peak | #Geology #GeologyPage #Everest Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 metres taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, ... Read More: geologypage.com/2024/10/a-rive…



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This is one of the most unique entries we have ever had to our fossil competition. Check it out! #stopmotion #fossilcomp


Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem You started your run in Appletreewick, Went anti-clockwise over Simon’s Seat to the ⭕️ on the shoulder by the disused mine N of Troller’s Gill

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Map Reading Task Images show a route and its profile. Where did the route start and finish? Where on the route is the red circle? Patreon subscribers receive task and video answer this evening #mapreading

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November 10, 1852, died #OTD British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell. He was quite puzzled by a strange #fossil found in 1822 by his wife Mary Ann Mantell. tinyurl.com/wghvl3u Famous for the description of the Iguanodon, in 2007 a #dinosaur was named after him

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A bit of evolutionary biology for a Saturday morning*: all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads. And the distinction between toads and frogs is just that toads tend to be terrestrial, with dry skin, whereas frogs tend to be more aquatic, with wet skin. 1/6…


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#Devonian #WordOfTheDay today is ‘vuz-pig’ The name for a hedgehog. 'Vuz' because it's prickly like gorse (vuzz) and 'pig' the same as hog. If you see a big hedgehog you can say 'lookee zee, a wacking gurt vuz-pig' and if it's a small hog you can say 'tiz a liddoo small thing'

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Gorgeous, wonderful how it simplifies the terrain to an old school route diagram One for @fellrunningguid to identify the main peaks and ridges

Flying from Glasgow to Stornoway last weekend. Our pilot said this was Ben Nevis on our right hand side.

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Interesting. But why does being longer and thinner necessarily equate to a longer “ better” gut? Aren’t the most efficient Mammalian guts found in barrel like abdomens?

The megalodon was less mega than previously believed | #Geology #GeologyPage #megalodon The Megalodon or megatooth shark is typically portrayed as a super-sized monster in popular culture, with recent examples in .. Read More: geologypage.com/2024/01/the-me…



Dave’s Thursday Nav Puzzle Hmmmm not a lot to go on..🤔 Looking down and across across a burn reentrant, with slightly higher ground to R My best guess would be that you were just above the “ri” of Grinah, looking N of E Time to dig out a compass 🧭! (#Old School!)

Map Reading Task A foggy day in the Peak District! The line on the map shows my route, but can you work out where the photo was taken from? @harveymaps Superwalker extract used with agreement (Patreon subscribers receive video answer this evening) #peakdistrict

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