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Everest the Hard Way, Nepal, 02/10 – 24/10, Part 1

Saturday 02/10 I left the UK on my birthday, 02/10/2010, to take on KE Adventure’s Everest the Hard Way trek. Flew Air India from Heathrow T3 via Delhi departed about 2130. Plane was surprisingly empty given the Commonwealth Games were … Continue reading

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Herts Photos

Took some photos whilst on a short walk in the Hertfordshire countryside. The photos were taken with the camera in RAW mode, so had a play with the various options for processing them in Linux. The wheat (?) fields were … Continue reading

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Le Tour de Alton

Not quite the Pyranees… Brought my saddle closer to the handlebars to reduce how far I was reaching. Seems to have worked somewhat because neck not quite as sore as last week.

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Track 8…

A map showing my latest bicycle ride recorded using Google MyTracks on my Android phone:

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tftp on ubuntu …

via David Sudjiman: 1. Install tftpd and related packages. $ sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp 2. Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry: service tftp { protocol = udp port = 69 socket_type = dgram wait = yes user = … Continue reading

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Mr Nonchalant…

… smooth!

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La Plagne, Saturday 13/03

Up at 0510 for transfer back to Grenoble. Slept all the way, took about 2.5 hours. Grenoble check-in queueing a complete mess again, place seems unable to organise that amount of people turning up for flights. At least got bags … Continue reading

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La Plagne, Friday 12/03

TC, JW and I up reasonably early and out on piste by 0930 to make the most of the last day. Some nice runs around Colorado, from Les Verdons and La Grande Rochette in the morning. Met the others at … Continue reading

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La Plagne, Thursday 11/03

Decided to use the day available on our Discovery ski pass to head over to Les Arcs. Everyone managed to get up early (with help from a fire alarm going off) given the need to get over to the Vanoise … Continue reading

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La Plagne, Wednesday 10/03

Decided to all head down to the Montchavin side of the area. Took long track called Route Des Bauches down to the Vanoise Express station. Bit narrow and flat for quite a while meant skating practice. Made a couple of … Continue reading

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