Walking | Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Jun 17, 2026 in UK, Walking, Walking Days | Comments Off on Day 9, 10 to go on The Pennine Way

Hawes to Keld 20km June has not been kind. Shunner Fell may well be one of the best stretches of the Pennine Way. If you can see it! Not...

Posted by reasons on Jun 16, 2026 in Walking | Comments Off on Day 8, Horton to Hawes

Great day in the Dales. But it would have been good to see it. Almost the entire 22km there was grey. Visibility dropping with the clouds...

Posted by reasons on Jun 15, 2026 in Blog, Walking | 1 comment

Malham to Thornton in Ribblesdale. 24km Malham Cove got the legs working with it’s hundred and whatever steps. Familiar countryside,...

Posted by reasons on Jun 13, 2026 in Other Places, UK, Walking | Comments Off on Peaks to Dales Day 5

I have come to love the signs on the Pennine Way. Navigation with a GPS or my map is fine but one of the many variety of signs is so...

Posted by reasons on Jun 11, 2026 in Blog, Other Places, UK, Walking | Comments Off on Standedge to Hebden

Day 3 of the Pennine Way. 25k was somewhat of an endurance test. It rained. Relentlessly. All day. And at times it was windy There were no...

Posted by reasons on Aug 13, 2021 in Blog, Other Places, UK, Walking, Walking Days | Comments Off on Isle of Skye; Back to the Blog

Things seem to be balancing into a ‘new normality’. I still feel anxious it will disappear, the moments with friends not seen seem...