An active Badger is someone who has walked with us in the last twelve months, been on one of our rambles or has perhaps joined us on a sponsored walk.
You can see the profiles for all these badgers below.
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Active Badgers
Abigail – AKA Snail
Snail is no longer the youngest Badger although she is still the youngest ever to attend a Badgers walk when she went on her first walk aged just 1 month and 3 days old. She has already visited the highest point in both North and West Yorkshire as well as a most sections of the …
Charlie
Charlie attended our first ever walk, to Great Whernside back in February 2010, but hasn’t been a regular since then, although there have been many valid reasons for this including work and university. In the last three years she has attended one walk per year (just enough to prevent her being moved into hibernation), so we …
Chris
Chris first joined the Badgers for our sponsored Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge back in 2011 but unfortunately had to retire after two peaks due to injury. Far from putting him off, it actually inspired him to walk more and he returned the following year to complete all three peaks. Since then he often walks with …
Dave – AKA Sir Edmund or Kinder
Named after Sir Edmund Hillary the first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Badger is the team leader and event organiser. The “33 Peaks in 33 Weeks” challenge was his brain-child and if there is some crazy hair brained plan or suggestion, it will certainly be his.
David – AKA Vidal
Vidal, is a rare breed of walker that always seems to find conditions against him. If the walk is a short one, he prefers a long walk to test him. If the walk is lengthy, he wanted a short one because he has plans later that night. If it is far away, he doesn’t like …
Freddie
It will be a little while before Freddie is walking himself, but he is slowly clocking up a few miles with the Badgers.
Graham – AKA Sherpa G-String, Captain Slow or Sherbert G-String
The Sherpa has long been the dependable side kick of Sir Edmund. Whenever Sir Edmund is in need you can bet your last piece of Kendal Mint Cake that Sherpa G-String will have something spare to keep his pal going.
Holly
Holly isn’t keen on the early starts and as such has only attended four walks, at the time of writing. Two of those have come in the second half of 2012 as she now has a dog, Izzy, which she brought along. This coincided with us doing walks that had lots of cows, and we …
Jane
A proud member of the Badgers, Jane is often seen in photographs wearing one of our badges. She has attended more than 10 official walks and has also passed the 100 mile mark as a Badger. On top of this she has done a few other walks after re-discovering the walking bug. The extra walks …
Joseph
Joseph first joined us for a walk in December 2012 and was finally given entry to the Badgers a year later.
Katie
Katie hasn’t been the most regular member of the team, but this isn’t down to her avoiding unpleasant conditions. She has attended “Badgers On Tor” when the temperature was below zero, and completed the mamoth walk that is the Yorkshire Three Peaks in miserable weather. In fact, most of the time Katie attends it is …
Leanne – AKA Wu Tang and one half of L’Autobus
Wu Tang received her moniker because of her hunched resting technique. Someone commented she resembled a rapper and the name just stuck. I don’t know exactly why she resembled a rapper but who cares.
Lucy
In a relatively short space of time, Lucy has completed three of Yorkshire most famous peaks. She climbed Pen y Ghent and Whernside back in 2010, and the following year tackled Ingleborough. If you only have three Yorkshire tops on your CV then surely these are the three to have.
Marc – AKA Mike
Marc was one of the Badgers who did some support walking during our Trailtrekker 2012 walk. He started at Horton at 7.30pm and left the boys 16 miles and 7 hours later at Buckden. It was at this point he declared an interest in doing the full walk in future but not much has been …
Roger – AKA The Flying Stick
His quick walking and slight build made for a very apt nickname, not that anyone ever calls him by it. The slight build may have something to do with his deliberate food choices that came to the fore on our Herriot Way walk in April 2011. The flying bit could have developed from a need …
Sandra – AKA Ramblo and one half of L’Autobus
The name Ramblo is achieved by taking an old nickname Rambo (a play on her maiden name) and giving it a clever rambling twist. Famed for the ice cold death stare, Ramblo is sure to pick up on any mistake made by the navigational team. She is also one half of L’Autobus,
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