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Jun 26
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
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...
Mar 17, 2023
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...
Dec 28, 2022
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...
Oct 15, 2022
Slaggyford and The Bog
A circular walk around the South Tyne valley in autumn
Jan 8, 2020
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...
Aug 11, 2019
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...
Jul 2, 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...
Jan 29, 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 27, 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...
Apr 9, 2018
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...
Feb 6, 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...
Oct 6, 2017
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 4, 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....
Jul 11, 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...
May 16, 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...
Jan 3, 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...
Dec 27, 2016
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...
Jan 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 26, 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...
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