Reasons to go North

Brexit has been but not gone! Like many, I find myself reading more political blogs than is healthy and writing little. More gripping than...

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. ...

Even Wainwright mentions ‘parking’ in Swindale. Public transport to the central fells would now present a challenge, the outlying fells...

I woke with the realisation that I’d hiked up three hills higher than Scafell Pike yesterday and was about to, hopefully, hike two more....