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...

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...

A circular high level route from Conistone in Wharfedale. Wharfedale View the route on plotaroute.com 9.5 miles 450 metres ascent A did...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Mynydd Mawr rears above the hamlet of Rhyd Ddu with a steam train just about to arrive in the station on picture left....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A day for exploration among the crags of Langdale. 6 miles 741 metres ascent 6 1/2 hours Scrambling at about grade 1 View the route on...

6.5 miles 650 metres of ascent Grade II scrambling View the route on plotaroute.com Much nicer weather than yesterday encouraged us to go...

10.5 miles 459 metres ascent 6 hours View the route on plotaroute.com Although in the heart of the mountains we decided on this lower...

10 miles 1000 metres ascent 5 hours 45 minutes View the route on plotaroute.com I think this was a first time walking along Deepdale and...

12.5 miles 1158 metres ascent 7 hours See the route on Plotaroute If you plan to walk from Kentmere get there early. The tiny parking...