The Cairngorms, Volume IV

The Cairngorms is my happy place. I absolutely love it there – as you may gather from the fact that we’ve just returned from our fourth trip there since January 2022. In early September we…

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The Pasture Beck Round

A few months ago, we set out on the Pasture Beck round from Hartsop. It’s a six and a half mile hike which can be done easily in a half day, and bags four Wainwrights:…

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The Fairy Pools

The Isle of Skye is one of those places which has attained an almost mythical status in the minds of travellers all over the world. Nowhere in the UK have we met quite so many…

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Hutton-le-Hole & Lastingham

Every year we get to the end of the summer and I say ‘I wish we’d managed to get over to the Moors for a walk’. The Dales are on our doorstep and we can…

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Allonby Beach

The Cumbrian coast is often unfairly overlooked. With the Lake District so close by providing a handy beacon to visitors from far and wide, the county’s coastline is completely devoid of the the hordes of…

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