Reasons to go North

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,...

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....