Category: Walking
Walking (mostly in the mountains).
Vickie & I met up for a hike up Blease Fell and Blencathra. The forecast was not good, but we both wanted (and needed) to get out and get some fresh air. It turned out to be a ‘not bad day’ on the fells. Sleet and rain did not dampen the conversation, and with the …
Having done no real exercise since Jack Scout Scar I decided to make an effort today. Weather restricted the options to a walk, so as I was due at my parents for tea, I opted for an old favourite Cut Gate to Outer Edge and back via Little Don. Cut Gate being a bridleway was …
Ewbank Scar is a fine piece of limestone. No caves visible though....
After my mum’s successful ascent of Helvellyn a few months before, my sister Diane decided to follow in our footsteps and go on her first ever walk in the Cumbrian Fells. I thought what better introduction could there be than a scramble along Halls Fell ridge on Blencathra. Andy, Brian, my mum Dorothy, Diane & …
The boys contemplate turning this wheel at Kentmere reservoir and flooding Kendal! Paul, Dave, Laetitia & Pete enjoyed a day out doing the famous ridge walk, the Kentmere Horseshoe, today. Having been round this classic walk a few times before (it being our local valley), we did a counter clockwise circuit for a change and …
The BBC weather forecasters had said it would rain heavily on Sunday, but as seems usual they got it wrong for Cumbria. Instead what they meant was it would rain in London and that the band of rain would have passed through Cumbria the night before… And did it rain last night! At least the …
It turned out nice didn't it?
Not content with my walk on Scout Scar, I went for a walk with the Bogtrotters....
