Swimhiking--August 2009

A family holiday in Snowdonia gave me the chance to do some wonderful swimhiking in the Rhinogs.

The Miners Track up Snowdon was also rather good, adapting itself naturally to swimhiking, with two obvious short cuts. Meanwhile the family trooped along the path, and took my picture:

Back in Durham, Ken and I took quite a long swimhike down the Wear, and I popped over to the Lake District where Ullswater seemed rather colder than usual for the time of year.

The highlight of August was introducing friends Richard and Maria to the delights of swimhiking. We swam beneath Kingsgate Bridge in Durham. For people who are more used to swimming on the contintent than in England’s cool waters, they were both great, and swimhiking proved its merits when the current made it much easier to exit downstream than to battle back up to our entry point.

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Late in August I hear the sad news that a man has drowned swimhiking, or at least doing something akin to swimhiking, on a reality TV show in Thailand.

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