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Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way
A circular route starting on the Hadrian's Wall way and then striking north into wild country to find the Pennine Way, which is followed...
Jun 26, 2024


Hindscarth and Dale Head
A winter walk in the Newlands valley, with some easy scrambling on the way. View the route on plotaroute.com 7 1/2 miles, 760 metres of...
Jun 26, 2024


The Coniston range end to end
You can have a great mountain day by walking the tops of the Coniston range from one end to the other. It doesn't join up into a...
Mar 17, 2023


Coniston Old Man
A circular route up the Old Man of Coniston. View the route on plotaroute.com 5 miles, 730 metres ascent. There is a nice circular route...
Dec 28, 2022


Slaggyford and The Bog
A circular walk around the South Tyne valley in autumn
Oct 15, 2022


It was a happy christmas -Coniston Old Man
During a very grey and largely wet Christmas week staying in the Lake District we did have one beautiful day which just happened to be...
Jan 8, 2020


A Wensleydale round
A walk around the south side of Wensleydale. Gayle 9 miles 560 metres View the route on plotaroute.com This is a beautiful and varied...
Aug 11, 2019


Conistone Circular – monochrome dales
A circular high level route from Conistone in Wharfedale. Wharfedale View the route on plotaroute.com 9.5 miles 450 metres ascent A did...
Jul 2, 2019


The Old Man of Coniston
This is a classic circuit of the hills above Coniston. Up to the Old Man of Coniston, around the head of the valley to Dow Crag, along...
Jan 29, 2019


St Sunday Crag Winter Wonderland
The High Street range from St Sunday Crag Nowadays it isn’t often that you get so much snow in the Lake District. Add in clear blue sky...
Jan 27, 2019


Swaledale
Route map on plotaroute.com Joy and I did a wonderful walk around Swaledale yesterday. Despite a less than good forecast it was perfect...
Apr 9, 2018


Easedale snow panoramas
St Sunday Crag seen through Grisedale Hause, Fairfield on the right, Dollywagon Pike on the left. Joy and I went to the Lake District for...
Feb 6, 2018


Snowdon sideways
View the route on plotaroute.com 7 miles 1100 metres ascent The route I found in the book starts at Blaen-y-Nant, half way up Llanberis...
Oct 6, 2017


Snowdon by the back way
Mynydd Mawr rears above the hamlet of Rhyd Ddu with a steam train just about to arrive in the station on picture left....
Oct 4, 2017


Crinkle Crags
8 miles 770 metres ascent 6 hours round trip Route map on plotaroute.com I’ve done this walk before but not for some time. Starting in...
Jul 11, 2017


Place Fell from Brotherswater
Sorry about the lack of posts recently, been distracted… I haven’t been going out on big mountain walks for quite a while due to achilles...
May 16, 2017


More from the Vale of Clwyd
Following the lovely walk we did last week, we did another in the same area with a slight overlap, starting from the tiny village of...
Jan 3, 2017


Moel Gyw
Joy and I did a great walk around the south-eastern end of the Clwydian range in north Wales, the physical and metaphorical high point...
Dec 27, 2016


Bwlch Tryfan, 19th January 2016
This was Joy’s last hurrah before going back to full time work so we made the effort to get to the mountains and find some snow. We did a...
Jan 27, 2016


Ambleside to Troutbeck, 17th January 2016
Joy and I made the journey to Ambleside in hopes of catching the snow at its best and we weren’t disappointed. We did the very popular...
Jan 26, 2016
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