Blog | Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Nov 2, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | Comments Off on Scafell Scramble

How to cope with challenging routes? Dare I say be as unprepared as possible? Well, not totally wear the right kit but just don’t read or...

Sometimes nature is not obliging. Things move. They dance about in the wind. They fly or run or leap. Light dodges around trees or shines...

Posted by reasons on Oct 27, 2013 in Blog, Other Places, UK | Comments Off on Feasting Fieldfares

Spotted a flock of Fieldfares feasting on berries. Tree stripped in half an hour! ...

Posted by reasons on Oct 27, 2013 in Blog, Other Places, UK, Walking | Comments Off on Bewerley and Greenhow

Grey sky, grey walls and muted colour merged into into an endless apron of rolling dales. Autumn may have turned the woodlands into a rash...

Posted by reasons on Oct 24, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 2 comments

Caught the last of the sun’s rays on the way home, this evening, over Farleton Knott. Amazing light, lovely colours, How beautiful a pile...

Posted by reasons on Oct 20, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria | Comments Off on Abandoning Wainwright

With everything from thunder to winds which, will ‘impede walking’, forecast by MWIS it was a weekend to leave the mountains alone and...