I did a lovely round of Lingmoor Fell and Little and Great Langdales last week. Lots of autumn colour. As you’ll see this small hill has...

Sleeping inside a bivvy bag on a hilltop is an odd feeling. It’s usually too cold to leave your head outside the bag so you spend the...

Much of Cumbria is flooded by a green tide of bracken in summer. It isn’t my favourite plant and its a good place for ticks to hide. It...

Duddon Valley The Duddon Valley is in the south-west of the Lake District, running north to south just to the left of Coniston. It isn’t...

The Helvellyn range at last light These are some shots I took a couple of weeks ago from a place I haven’t been before, St. John’s in the...

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...

This portrait is of a tree in the small lake of Tarn Hows in the Lake District. It was a disappointing day otherwise. I was hoping for...

I found a quiet day during the Christmas rush at the end of November and went out to Grasmere in the Lake District. There had been some...

The morning after the night before, and a better night’s sleep than I often get in a bivvy bag, I woke just before the alarm went off at...

Glenridding from Silver Crag. The Helvellyn range is the far sky line. A few weeks ago, my first (successful) overnight wild camp of the...

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...

April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...

In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Atop This symbol is used on Ordnance Survey maps (the best maps in the world, IMHO) to...

I’d made a trip to the small Cumbria lake of Tarn Hows last autumn. What I didn’t realise on that day was that if I walked about two...

We’ve had some bad weather in the last week and I think by the time I manage to get back to the Lake District the peak of autumn colour...

Autumn colour is fleeting and unpredictable. The peak period only lasts a few weeks and a storm can bring it to a quick end. You really...

Yesterday I planned a trip to the hills above Kirkstone Pass in Cumbria. I’d checked the map, it looked good. High ground, extensive...

As you drive down Borrowdale from Keswick in the Lake District and you’re hoping for panoramic views along the lake and north to Skiddaw...

The sun just risen above the horizon casts heavenly rays across the valley and lights up Middle Dodd Starting with red, we have Red...

Great Gable (Napes crags facing us), Kirk Fell left, Ennerdale behind, looking towards Grasmoor 15 km, 1000m ascent Grade 3 scrambling...