Get to know the team: Peter Duggan

[Joshua Dickerson]

Do you ever find yourself on YouTube or other video hosting sites?

[Peter Duggan]

Haven't found myself on any yet (not saying that I'm not there, mind!), but have seen some movie clips of me (including one I uploaded a couple of years back, but haven't 'officially' linked in, to petestack.com) on some hill running sites.

[Erh@n]

No, but perhaps there are just some pretty fit thrill seekers around

[Peter Duggan]

No, but perhaps there are just some pretty fit thrill seekers around?

No, but perhaps there are just some pretty fit thrill seekers around

[Joshua Dickerson]

I meant do you visit them since you don't have TV

[KGIII]

I'm right-handed, but play guitar and bass left-handed because I'm digitally challenged.

What brand guitar is your favorite? What brand bass? Err... Ever try to pick flamenco?

[Peter Duggan]

What brand guitar is your favorite? What brand bass?

Well, I'm not primarily a guitarist (woodwind specialist/multi-instrumentalist but increasingly jack-of-all-trades/master of none), haven't tried that many *left-handed* guitars and stick to models that cost hundreds rather than thousands of pounds. But I've been happy for years with a nice classical guitar by Vicente Sanchis (Christmas present from my parents in 1988) and Aria II Pro bass (bought secondhand off eBay), whereas I sold my Tanglewood Odyssey electro-acoustic (over-rated model with many faults) last summer. So I might buy another electro-acoustic or electric some day, but it'll simply have to be better than that one (which, to be fair, was pretty well all I could get left-handed when I bought it years ago).

Err... Ever try to pick flamenco?

Not exactly flamenco as such, but I'm very much a finger-picker rather than plectrum player.

I meant do you visit them since you don't have TV

Ah! (Can you hear me hitting myself over the head for that one?) No, not really (except when I follow specific links to them), but I do watch a fair number of news and sport clips on the BBC site.

[KGIII]

If you are interested in a fairly decent (generally killer intonation and great action by the way - more so with the price factored in) there are a few fairly low-cost but still decent Ibanez electric/acoustic guitars out there.

[Peter Duggan]

Something I'll certainly consider if/when I start looking for another, so thanks for the tip! (The Tanglewood has terrible intonation because the slant of the bridge is wrong in both RH and LH models and it gets sharp very quickly as you work your way up the bass strings.)

So do you play guitar too (sounds like it!) and, if so, what sort of stuff?

[KGIII]

I play mostly blues and poke around pretending I can play classical. But this isn't my thread. We seemingly have had similar backgrounds or at least have had similar results. Woodwinds weren't on my list of instruments though but I can generally pick up an instrument and play something from harp to a hammered dulcimer from timpani to trumpet. Once upon a time, in a past life, I attended a music college in hopes of being "The Next Big Thing." I mostly majored in drinking and minored in failing so, needless to say, I didn't stay there long. I think I made it through 1.5 semesters.

[Peter Duggan]

31. What's the freakiest thing you have done?  //Keep it clean.

For now, probably rejoining the SMF Team, but ask me after 23 June!

95 miles (153 km) and 14,760 ft (4,499 m) of ascent by foot in 22 hrs, 15 mins, 50 secs (full account for my site to follow)!

http://www.westhighlandwayrace.org/

[KGIII]

Impressive. Impressive indeed. What is the highest you've climbed?

[Peter Duggan]

Nothing higher than Rainier so far:

Mount Rainier (Washington, 14411ft) by the Kautz Glacier in 2006

But height isn't everything (except where thin air is concerned!) and I still hope to climb Mount Kenya (17,058 ft/5,199 m) sometime for its beauty, location and history as much as altitude...

Might also add that Saturday's big race is an automatic addition to the list of recent/all-time highlights specified in my original answer #8!

[Gary]

31. What's the freakiest thing you have done?  //Keep it clean.

For now, probably rejoining the SMF Team, but ask me after 23 June!

95 miles (153 km) and 14,760 ft (4,499 m) of ascent by foot in 22 hrs, 15 mins, 50 secs (full account for my site to follow)!

http://www.westhighlandwayrace.org/

20th! Well Done there Peter

[Thantos]

That doesn't count as freakish, that is just plain out insane

[Peter Duggan]

While it's tempting (even for me!) just to agree with Thantos, the open-minded can now make up their own minds from my report at http://www.petestack.com/running/whw2007.html...

[Peter Duggan]

Nothing higher than Rainier so far:

Mount Rainier (Washington, 14411ft) by the Kautz Glacier in 2006

Some more new stuff to read (belated American trip report):
http://www.petestack.com/climbing/states2006.html