Three Peaks

[T40ORA]

OK, not exactly sport..... But I'm looking to do the challenge this summer and I'm after as much information regarding what to expect as possible.

Anyone know where I might find some data about what to expect, weather, temperatures etc?

Or anyone got any first hand experience that they would care to impart?

TIA

[Wacky Racer]

Do you mean Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent, and Whernside

or

Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon.....??

[Gad-Westy]

Have a good read through this. There are some interesting points raised which I hadn't particularly thought of when I did it.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ewenm]

If the Yorkshire version, go for it and enjoy the beer afterwards.

If the Sco/Eng/Wal version, think carefully about the implications of it as linked on the other thread.

[T40ORA]

It's the Scotland/England/Wales one.

So I'll check out the thread, thanks guys.

[deevlash]

I havent done the other 2 but I have been up Ben nevis. Its a bit of a slog tbh, you walk along the foothills and then get onto ben nevis proper a few hundred metres up. From there you climb for a while and then hit the part where th path zig zags across the mountain. The summit has a ruined hotel/observatory and a shelter cabin on it and is a fairly large flat plateau. I went up it in march and it was somewhat snowy! In relation to the other 2 its a fair bit bigger than snowdon and scaffel is a bit micky mouse in comparison. It took my friend and I 6 hours to go from the top to the bottom of Ben Nevis, yet when I did Skiddaw which isnt far short of Scaffel I was up and down it before lunch.

Ben Nevis has a few dodgy sections, 5 finger gully being one, where people can simply walk off the edge as the upper sections are covered in clouds for 300 days of the year. If theres snow its very easy for it to be a white out.
This is my mate on the summit next to part of the observatory;

thats the summit, notice that the north face is quite steep!