jacko198
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Has anyone done this/know anyone who has done it?
Maybe looking to do it next year depending how hard it's going to be as I'm stupidly unfit at the moment! Will be great to set a challenge for the new year to get fit enough for it and raise some £ at the Same time!
Anyone climbed any of the 3? Ben Nevis, Scafell and Snowden?
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Doug
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I have climbed Nevis once and Snowden 3 times.
Each of them is a physical effort, so doing three in a row is tough day.
You need to be able to ascend strongly at a good pace and be able to make up a fair bit of time on the descent by skipping and jumping down at a good pace. That's where I would struggle, I am poor at the descent as I have a mental block about a knee injury I had a few years back 
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mikenoncorsa
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I did it last year with a couple of my work mates, raised £3k. Did Ben Nevis, scafell then onto snowmen at 4.30am. Was pretty gruelling but doing it with mates gets you through. We were fortunate to have a dedicated driver who drove our mini bus for us. Having done it, I wouldn't do it again as I didn't enjoy it but it was for charity. Nobody can surely enjoy walking? Couple of the lads I did it with wouldn't be described as peak physical fitness, just normal fitness if you get what I mean.
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Cole
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Walby done it on the way back from doing lejog crazy man
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jacko198
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I do hate walking tbh. Definitely going to have a driver. Can't be doing 11 hours of driving!
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ash_corsa
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Did it last year also, you don't need to be superfit by any means.
We only did snowdon before, scafell and Ben Nevis were our first times on the day, which was our stumbling point on scafell.
We did Ben Nevis first 3.30pm start (summertime)
We were back down by 7.30 and in the van
Got to scafell at around 1.30am pitch black pissing down with rain, headed off with head torches and got way lost! Joined another group who were also lost, ended up scrambling up the side to the top after failing to find a path!
We were back down by 6.30am
Got to snowdon about 11.30am and were back down at 3.04pm
23hrs 25mins!
Defo need a dedicated driver who is not walking.
I'd definitely advise you to walk all the mountains you will be walking in the dark beforehand!
We were lucky to finish within time, other groups who started the same time as us were just starting snowdon as we were coming down so they were well over the 24hrs, you'll find you keep bumping into the same groups on each mountain, it's a good laugh and you get chatting with loads of other people.
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Haimsey
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Ive done scarfel and snowdon, snowdon a few times.
Not quite managed the three peaks yet but it would be a great achievement.
There are smaller, closer together 'three peaks' if you wanted to build up to them.
[Edited on 01-01-2014 by Haimsey]
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