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Walk and Travel in Cumbria and Beyond

Reasons going West

Posted by on Mar 21, 2013 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places | Comments Off on Reasons going West

Leaving the hills behind for a few days and heading west to New York.       My loft is full of my son’s ‘stuff’ – but I am...

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Walla Crag and Derwent

Posted by on Mar 19, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria | 2 comments

Walla Crag is the smallest Wainwright and and having done twelve miles of the Limestone Link the previous day, this easy walk up a hill,...

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The Limestone Link

Posted by on Mar 17, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | Comments Off on The Limestone Link

I walk part of the Limestone Link on most days but I had, until Friday, never walked all of it.  Farleton Knott and Hutton Roof Crags are...

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Arthur and Bill Baggin

Posted by on Mar 11, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | Comments Off on Arthur and Bill Baggin

After a miserable drizzly Saturday, Sunday had to be the day to go up a hill or two.  Early on snow clouds hung low in the sky, but by the...

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Damp Day in Cumbria

Posted by on Mar 9, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Food | Comments Off on Damp Day in Cumbria

Wet all day.  Most people appear to have given up on outdoors and resigned to themselves to domesticity, if Twitter and Facebook are any...

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The Helm

Posted by on Mar 8, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | Comments Off on The Helm

Having driven past this hill on numerous occasions, today, I stopped to walk the dog up it.  It was rather a dull, grey sort of day but...

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