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 pass at a lay-by. The book calls it the Cwm Glas horseshoe. It approaches the knife-edge Crib Goch north ridge by avoiding the sheer cliffs of Dinas Mot via a weakness in its north-west flank. After the much quieter north ridge, it follows the classic horseshoe route along Crib Goch’s very popular east ridge, along to Garnedd Ugain and to Sno

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 Langdale, it climbs up clockwise towards Crinkle Crags summit, traversing the several crinkles then coming back down via The Band. Flowers in the meadow by Stool End farm with the Pikes on the skyline. I started at the Stickle Ghyll car park, mostly because it’s National Trust so I park for free. The real start of the walk is where the road be

Bwlch Tryfan, Tryfan and eastwards. Bristly Ridge is one of the best known scrambles in Wales. It’s only grade one but has some great exposure and positions and is an adventure all the way. The scrambling starts at Bwlch Tryfan, the saddle between Tryfan and Glyder Fach, and it’s often done in conjunction with the Tryfan north and south ridge traverse. I’m not fit enough for that at the moment, perhaps later in the year. This was a perfect day for it, bright, not too windy, n

Great Gable (Napes crags facing us), Kirk Fell left, Ennerdale behind, looking towards Grasmoor 15 km, 1000m ascent Grade 3 scrambling View on Plotaroute.com April 2013 and I was on my own while Joy went to China for two weeks. Time for mountain adventures. The chosen location was Eskdale, the Woolpack Inn specifically. The planned outing was to walk along Eskdale to the east side of the Scafell range and ascend the three star grade 3 scramble of Pen by Thor’s Buttress, then

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 plotaroute.com With a suspect ankle I didn’t want to commit to a big distance so I thought I’d just amble and wander around the crags, trying to find alternative ways up the hillside and get a good view of the crags at the same time. I particularly wanted a good look at Gimmer, which I’ve never been close to before. Starting from the Old Dunge

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 higher. Harter Fell can be seen from all round the valley as a perfect pyramid and has very inviting rocky flanks (especially on the west and north). We once did a climb on the north side ( Demming Slab ) that turned out to be a very vegetated adventure but with a good mountain atmosphere for a relatively small peak. We started (with our fr

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 walk after seeing  the forecast of fifty mile per hour winds on the tops. From near the bottom (south-western) end of mitredale near the end of the walk. We started from our B+B and wandered round the various paths back to Eskdale Green then started to figure out a way around Fell End and along the shallow ridge to Boat How. The terrain is full