Swallows and Amazons
Category: Walking
Walking (mostly in the mountains).
Sron a’ Choire Ghairbh
Spending a weekend with Andy and Sabiene at Arthur’s, I was motivated up a mountain by the knowledge that when we got back champagne and chocolate cake were on the menu. (These were to celebrate Sabiene’s last day at work – though sadly she will be starting a new job very soon.) Typical Scottish weather, …
Star of the Day
Fellwalkers’ Annual Dinner
As usual this event was held at the Old Crown, Hesket Newmarket, preceded by a walk up some of the nearby Northern Fells. The previous few days had been thick with freezing fog and nil visibility (though apparently there were great cloud inversions for those of us who could get out from work to see …
Carlswark Cavern
It’s been a while since we last spent a weekend in Derbyshire, so that was the general plan for the weekend. We took gear for all eventualities (walking, running, caving and orienteering), but ended up walking and caving. Orienteering was excluded from the list pretty early on because the event we had presumed was scheduled …
A Bit of Hungary
Delphi
First Felljog of 2011
The Newlands Valley walk of 2 January was billed as “An ascent of Dale Head”. OK, I thought, tick off a fell, not too tough, good way to start the year. Of course I should have known better: since John was leading it was as usual rather more than a stroll. After some stress over …
The Ice Axe on the Hill Top by Mr Peacock?
