Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Sep 7, 2016 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

Though one of the North Cumbrian icons, sitting bold and brash above Keswick, I can’t say Skiddaw is one of my favourite hills. Going up...

Cumbria’s Heat Wave! For one day The temperature soared above 30C. Those lovely lakes filled by what can feel like incessant rain have...

July must have been, is busy, Not much time to put many words or pictures together. A few evenings wandering round...

To say it has been a strange week is an understatement.So strange that for once my blog has to venture from its usual track of hills,...

On Sunday I discovered Askham Hall. Askham. A picture postcard village on the edge of the Lake District. A mere fell separating it...

Same hill. Different route, different weather. Kind of. Bow Fell, at the top of Langdale, a hill I’d only been up once, in the snow. ...