Reasons to go North

The TMB has been trod my many before me and many now have blogged about it but it is impossible for me not to add a few words and even...

There are too many superlatives to make my trip to Mont Blanc a ‘quick fix’. So I’m going to start by posting just a sample of the many...

It’s August. I think. Visitors have flocked to the Lake District despite the unseasonably ‘dreich’ weather. Pummelling rain showers...

Posted by reasons on Jul 30, 2017 in Blog, Cumbria, Walking | 0 comments

A few weeks ago when the sun was shining Blue sky but just a little breezy. Maybe not such a good thing with a few ridges to contend with....

Posted by reasons on Jul 23, 2017 in Blog, Cumbria, UK, Walking | 0 comments

Despite stair-rods of rain battering the windows of my ‘weekend retreat’, on Greenhow hill, at dawn, it eventually drifted away to clear...