Reasons to go North

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 20, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria | 0 comments

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

Posted by reasons on Oct 16, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 2 comments

I don’t think there can be an easy way to do ‘The Nab’ from Martindale. Well not strictly true. It is fairly straightforward to get to...

Posted by reasons on Oct 12, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

Apart from the usual delights of views, mountains, hills, sky and so on, this hike was up hills I had managed to miss on other days....

Posted by reasons on Oct 9, 2013 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

I have discovered that it is so easy to miss Wainwrights. I have walked around Patterdale, up all the well known hills and valleys, even...