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So then – the Three Peaks Girls did it!! <\/span>Nailed all three mountains, Ben Nevis, Scarfell and <\/span>Snowdon, and all the schlepping between them in a mere 23 hours and 32 minutes, <\/span>well within the 24 hour target.<\/span> <\/p>\n

It's been a whirlwind 4 days…<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spent a wild 12 hours on the very long trog up to <\/span>Scotland, made infinitely better by the energetic gossiping and catching up as<\/span>
we hauled our asses northwards, picking up Rachel and Chris, the northern girls <\/span>contingent, in glamorous Knutsford Services on the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally got to our overnight stop, Pitlochry, at 9pm <\/span>where you can only imagine my face as we asked the woman in the pub how to get <\/span>to where we were booked in, and she looked rather surprised. Maybe the name, <\/span>'Backpackers Hostel', should have given it away, or the until-that-point <\/span>unknown price tag of a mere \u00a318 a head, but yes we were indeed in two 6 people<\/span>
dorms in a youth hostel for the night. And having to be grateful that the woman on Reception wasn't going to put a stranger in the last remaining bunkbed in our room! On single mattresses like corrugated <\/span>iron and one bed that was made of balsa wood, unisex showers down the corridor <\/span>and towels for 50p…. Oh and a rabid yowling cat trying to get through our <\/span>open window at 4am, lusty for Hatch on the nearest bunkbed. Still, it was more <\/span>sleep than what was to come…<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Up and into mass food production mode. Three sets of sandwiches,<\/span>bananas and endless snacks for each climber, fuelled by a bacon sandwich each <\/span>finally emerging from the hour-to-heat-up hostel stove. H<\/span>aving prized Clarkie out of <\/span>the fridge magnet and retro sweetie shop she drove everyone to Fort William for <\/span>one final pub lunch and carbo loading for the climbers, and the stary f some rather nervous faces as the girls twigged that reality was about to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few photos at the foot of gloriously sunny, woo hoo, <\/span>Ben Nevis, and then at 15.54 they were off, a line of orange Myeloma t-shirts <\/span>heading up hill at pace. Swiftly followed by some rather nice men in purple <\/span>charity tops, our new friends for the rest of the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clarkie, Georgie and I retired to a grass verge trying to <\/span>get some kip, sadly disturbed as we'd cunningly chosen a spot by a loosely <\/span>fitted cattle grid which sounded like a car smash every time something went <\/span>over it.. So, back to the car park to heat up the girls' post-mountain hot <\/span>dinner and make tea, wash up, refill waters and do all the other Ground Crew<\/span>
palaver that I really hadn't spotted coming..<\/span><\/p>\n

Damn good job we hadn't nipped to the pub, as Clarkie was <\/span>sure they'd take at least 6 hours as she'd taken over 8 on a practice run- but <\/span>they were down by 8.44pm, running for the loo and back on the bus for more food <\/span>and a sleep. Except us, in the front, being 'entertained' by Clarkie's <\/span>desperately untuneful singing ('Pa-pa-pa-pa-PAH Pooooooooker Face…') and steady stream of Snickers, Tangfastics, Redf Bull and Tracker bar noshing to try and stay <\/span>awake.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Oh, and then the lovely Scarfell. After a foul drive from sunny Scotland tot he Nasty North in peeing rain <\/span>from 9 to 2.30am, having to leap from the bus to chase sheep off the tiny <\/span>road, we made it to the Lake District. <\/span>My how keen the sleepy ones were to get up, not. Lead by Rachel's very kind <\/span>dad, off they went in the pitch black up Scarfell at 2.38am, while we d<\/span>iscovered how bloody freezing a minibus is at night, and that a waterproof <\/span>picnic blanket really rustles every time you try and turn over, at a precarious <\/span>angle on an all too narrow double seat. Zero sleep to be had, so we got up and <\/span>got the kettle on, attracting two men from the next bus who swapped their 2 <\/span>litre water bottle for our hot tea and pointed out that I'd left a critical bit<\/span>
off the gas stove - so annoying that they were right. Tired but on time girls <\/span>were down by 6.33am, and thence back in the bus, with more hot food and off to <\/span>Snowdon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Got to Snowdon and realised we were two walkers down, <\/span>both Joanna and Vicki in huge pain, so very disappointedly having to pull out of climb three to <\/span>give the others a good chance of hitting the time target. Off set the final 6, <\/span>Sarah Williams, Hatch, Fitz, Rachel, Chris and Tina at 11.35am. More waiting <\/span>about for us, more eating of far too many calories meant for the climbers<\/span>
rather than the increasingly fat Ground Crew, and then the wait for their <\/span>return.<\/span><\/p>\n

Climbed up the first bit of Snowdon with Georgie to see where they were – and the <\/span>line of orange shirts at last appeared round the mountains edge. One last <\/span>downward bit together, yes totally trying to share their triumphal thunder, and <\/span>at 15.21 they touched the final gate at the foot of Snowdon and we'd made it!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

 A few tears, Hatch lying on the tarmac, dropping of <\/span>walking poles, ripping off of now very smelly Myeloma tops, and off for a well <\/span>earned pint. All massively chuffed, not least because the money target had by <\/span>this point gone up to about \u00a320k, and will probably end up more like \u00a322k, as <\/span>Sarah's work will match her one-ninth of the total. Amazing, given we started <\/span>with a \u00a35k total, and have blown it out of the water and some. People are great.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humbling, delighting, saddening that it's related to me, <\/span>warming, entertaining, gut-laughingly funny at times.. a top weekend all round. Not least the <\/span>prize-giving fines session back at Rachel's welsh house on Sat night…. Tears of <\/span>both joy and general emotion in full flow, despite the usually-so-controlled 11 Alpha Females in <\/span>attendance. Much support coming in from Hawksey and the BBQ attendees at our <\/span>house in London, covered in Myeloma balloons and singing down the phone to the <\/span>11 of us, in southern camaraderie. A weekend that has been over a year in the <\/span>planning – huge thanks and hats off to Joanna Close and helpers – and a totally <\/span>cracking result on the wedge front, as well as a brilliant chance for 11 old <\/span>friends to catch up as if there have been no years of absence or living in <\/span>different countries, between us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks girls, a really really really stupendous effort (Hatch you are really alomst a Gazelle and no longer a Rhino) and <\/span>brilliant that we made it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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