Comments on: Easter is too early

By: Chris and Sue

Chris and Sue — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:17 +0000

Had a similar experience to you up in a campsite near Fort William at Easter - 3 tents (including ours) and 4 camper vans. Climbed Meall na Teanga and Sron a Choire Ghairbh on a day which a Glasgow lady described as “Once in a season” - sunshine, crampons over the compressed snow - glorious! Gulvain a couple of days later was a different story with waves of indifferent weather every 10 minutes it seemed. In the end we were driven back down from the south summit by howling winds and stinging snow which felt like being sand blasted. Close encounter with red deer running infront of our bikes onto a raised bit of ground above the track and then standing defiantly above us made it all worthwhile.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:40:05 +0000

Cameron, am hoping that a new tent will be through in the next week or so. fantastic for Backpackers meet. it is a Mountain Laurel design.

By: cameron

cameron — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:25:41 +0000

No such thing as lesser mortals in the outdoor community, Dawn. Everyone’s blog is of interest. I’ll have a look…

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:37:59 +0000

Easter in Wales was pretty horrible too. If you ever wander through the blog pages of us lesser mortals, re Dawn-outdoors blog, I have a write up there. it was the mud that finished me. Tent, rucksack, boots etc, all slung in the bath to be scrubbed.

By: Neil Cuthbert

Neil Cuthbert — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:21:34 +0000

Public holidays in Scotland are a mess. Edinburgh still takes Queen Victoria’s birthday as a local holiday! I don’t understand why…

The changing date is one of the great things about Easter. Let’s remember the origin of the word ‘holiday’…

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:48:29 +0000

Isn’t it also related to the Jewish calendar and passover (which has been celebrated since the Jews left slavery in Egypt). related to the fact that Jesus’s crucifixion was at the time of passover.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:58:47 +0000

You can indeed blame the church - and thank wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Date_of_Easter

By: cameron

cameron — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:17:36 +0000

April 20 sounds good to me. Thanks for the info Chris.

By: Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:07:13 +0000

The people who decided the date of Easter won’t hear you unless you have a time machine Cameron! It was decided by the Church in 325AD as the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20. It can occur anytime between March 22 and April 25. Next year it’s April 20.

A fixed date would make more sense. But when?

By: john hee

john hee — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:06:54 +0000

balme emperror claudius for it all

Cue “What have the Romans ever done for us …..” thoughts