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Keswick Mountain Bikes - Mountain bikes for sale and hire. Information about organised cycling events for enthusiasts and families in the Keswick area.

Keswick Mountaineering Club - Has members who rock climb, walk, ice climb, mountainbike, fell run, and participate in many other outdoor pursuits. Meetings, message board and photos.

Glaramara Adventure Centre - Team Building programs to give powerful team experiences in a day of fun and professional development.

Keswick Rambles - A programme of graded walks in Northern Lakeland led by the experienced leaders of Keswick Rambles, whose is knowledgeable about this area.

Keswick Cricket Club - Photos, player profiles, events and results for the cricket club in Keswick.

Keswick Athletic Club - Fell and road running club. Photographs, results, notice board and details of membership.

Keswick Climbing Wall and Outdoor Activity Centre - Has a 3000 square feet climbing wall, and offers abseiling, assault course, canoeing, climbing, gorge scrambling, mountain biking and raft building.

Derwentwater Marina - Portinscale - An outdoor activity and watersports centre, with self-catering accommodation. Details of sailing, windsurfing and canoeing, mountain activities, team building, and multi activity breaks.

The Calvert Trust - The centre, by Bassenthwaite Lake, provides adventurous outdoor activity courses for groups, families and individuals with disabilities. Details of activities, facilities, accommodation, and prices.

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team - The team is responsible for rescues in the Northern Lake District. Information about the team and its centre, pictures of the team in action, and summaries of previous rescues.

Keswick Golf Club - 18 hole golf course. Details of the course, facilities and shop.

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Chesterton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Recreation and Sports There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Recreation and Sports "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Recreation and Sports My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Recreation and Sports Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Recreation and Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
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