Couple’s 12-Hour Hike: Because Nothing Says ‘Get to Know You’ Like Blisters
KEY POINTS
- •Eibhlis Gale-Coleman suggested a 12-hour hiking challenge for her third date with Greg in February 2024.
- •They tackled Whernside, Ingleborough, and Pen-y-ghent in Yorkshire Dales, starting at 4:30 a.m. from Chapel-le-Dale.
- •Their adventure featured deep conversations, a mix-up in directions, bad weather, and ultimately led to two years together.
Eibhlis Gale-Coleman, done with soporific dinner dates by 2024, proposed a radical 12-hour hiking challenge on the third date with Greg. Their romantic escapade took place in the soggy, fog-choked Yorkshire Dales National Park’s briar patch—specifically tackling the triple-whammy Peaks Challenge: Whernside, Ingleborough, and Pen-y-ghent. Starting at 4:30 a.m. from Chapel-le-Dale, they spent hours battling not only bogs and blisters but also dialogue amid sheep bleats and bad weather. Greg’s sudden sad news on the trail, Eibhlis's queasy drinking water fiasco, and their blissful ache at 1:30 p.m. ending with ‘elation over exhaustion’ became their perfect chemistry test. Two years later, the couple’s still going strong—walking triumphantly on Kilimanjaro and weekend strolls with battered boots and presumably identical weird stories.
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Who needs candlelit dinners when you can bond over confusion, blisters, and sheep bleats on a soggy mountain for half a day? Romance in 2026: come for the views, stay for the existential fatigue.
Forget roses and wine—nothing reveals your soulmate quite like nine hours of joint wrong turns and water poisoning on British moorland.
If you think awkward first dates are bad, try 25 miles of fog and mud under the Yelp review 'shared mild misery soup.'
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/13/2026 | Author: Eibhlis Gale-Coleman
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