Reasons to go North

When I threw into the wind that I wanted to do another wild camp somewhere near a tarn. ‘Hard Tarn’, flew back. It’s not much more than a...

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...

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. ...