Grey Knotts & Brandreth
It’s never harder to leave the Lakes than when the sun is shining. After a week of great weather, our final morning treated us to clear blue skies and glorious sunshine. Although, we weren’t complaining…
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Haystacks & Fleetwith Pike
If you’ve been following my recent posts, you’ll know that we spent a week in the Lakes in April. After a few bumps in the road which limited us to shorter walks, the stars finally…
View PostFalcon Crag & Ashness Bridge
After our mostly unsuccessful walk up Hallin Fell the day before, we’d resigned ourselves to walks of no more than half an hour for the rest of the week. No walk is more important than…
View PostHallin Fell
Never in all our years of visiting the Lakes have we had a weather forecast as good as at the end of April. Typically, mid-week, we ended up having to take Coal on an emergency…
View PostSizergh Fell
Now that Merry is 10, we’re trying to be conscious about how many ‘big walks’ we do in a row. As a spaniel, he would happily go as long as we’d let him! The day…
View PostSeat Sandal
135 Wainwrights in, you’d think I’d know better than to make assumptions about any of the fells. And yet, there I was at the top of Wainwright 136, with my expectations thoroughly exceeded. With the…
View PostCastlehead Woods
Last year we booked a week in the Lake District at the start of June: the logic being that it was summer and we would hopefully be dealt a fairly decent hand from the weather…
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