Simon Young Adventure

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

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

I am quietly starting to migrate over to blue sky to escape some of the robots.
Please feel free to follow me over on
https://t.co/emi135Q7JC

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

@fellrunningguid Are you permanently back in X, as I had swapped over to Bluesky to follow you….

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

@fleurrbie I highly recommend the ring of Steall - a really ridgy day! Plus the fun of the cable “bridge”

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

Sounds just like a normal “Residential” down at the Lake

[H5 Adventure @H5adventure]

What a day ... it's still going, however over 2500 young people through our Mobile Caving Experience

[Sketchplanations @sketchplanator]

Are you passionate about something? Do you know something inside out where others barely give it a glance?

Everyone's a geek about something. And that's wonderful.

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

@fellrunningguid Oooh
Will do - nothing yet
Will check out the” other” platforms
Cheers

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Demise of the Pasterze (AT) icefall over the last 8 years! 🔥

This south-facing icefall was the last to feed the valley tongue, and it will be cut off anytime soon, likely next summer, leaving a dead ice body below 🧊📈

Source @GeoSphere_AT

[Geology Tweets @GeologyTime]

Jokes That Only Geologists Will Fully Understand 😀😎😀

Geology Giggles: Show Us Your Rock-Solid Jokes! In The comments 🪨

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The earliest record for all snow in Scotland disappearing is 23rd August, which happened in 2003. If significant falls of fresh snow do not occur in the next four weeks or so then that early date will be trounced this summer.

I have never seen the hills so denuded of snow in mid March.

📷 SAIS Lochaber - https://t.co/yIr6XirZuu

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Regular reminder:

[Diabetes UK @DiabetesUK]

Do you know the 4Ts of #type1diabetes? They are:

🚽 Toilet (needing a wee more)
🚰 Thirsty
💤 Tired
⬇️ Thinner

If you’re already familiar with the 4Ts, will you share this post to make sure more people know the signs of type 1 diabetes?

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

March 9, 1847, Mary Anning died #OTD. Self-taught fossil collector from Lyme Regis, she discovered complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurii, Plesiosaurus & Dimorphodon, pioneering the study of coprolites - or fossilized poo - & molluscs
https://t.co/m2zuWxn9ap

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Today's whiskey trivia:
The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from...
...India!

Source: https://t.co/eGoKUp1A1m

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

@simongerman600 I had always thought that Florence Nightingale, of lamp fame, was credited with the invention of the Pie 🥧chart
Every day is a school day…..

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

So sad
A true gentleman.
An infectious enthusiast

He always had time to pass on friendly advice, or just chat when I had the privilege of meeting him whilst working as a Post Grad / Post Doc at the Natural History Museum
RIP

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

British geologist Richard Alan Fortey passed away today at the age of 79. An expert on fossils & the stratigraphy of the Ordovician, he was also a passionated science popularizer
https://t.co/5b62GP03Q9

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

March 7, 1785, Scottish farmer & naturalist James Hutton presents his full theory of the Earth at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
https://t.co/nAqI6gWarM

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem
We are hiding 🫣behind the cairn on Fell end, looking NW across Slei Gill up broad reentrant to Low Moor, marking change from improved to unimproved land
🔴 is the 1st obvious reentrant downstream from the bend in the gill. Wall crosses higher up

[fellrunningguide @fellrunningguid]

Map Reading Task 292

Where precisely was the photo taken?
Identify the feature circled.

photo credit @ABTheAdventure

video answer for Patreon subscribers this evening
#mapreading

[Simon Young Adventure @CranOutdoorEd]

@theiaincameron Crianlarich?

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

their model was based on unpublished crystallographic data by British biochemist Rosalind Franklin, who was credited only a decade later.
Franklin worked also on modern classification of coal types and carbon-minerals