Barrow

I’ve said before that walking the Wainwrights is a great way to prompt yourself to explore fells which otherwise might not make it onto your radar: Low Fell and Fellbarrow, for example, make for a…

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Branstree & Selside Pike

2023 has been a really busy year for us – and so day trips to the Lake District to bag a few Wainwrights have taken a bit of a back seat. It’s seemed like every…

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Smardale Nature Reserve

The start of October was a bit weird weather wise. It felt like we were caught in limbo between summer and autumn, with the leaves starting to turn but temperatures staying at 18 degrees celsius,…

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The Coledale Round

Back in September we spent a weekend in the village of Braithwaite near Keswick. Originally, Sam was going to be running an ultra marathon on the Saturday, but the event was postponed for reasons unknown.…

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King’s Howe & the Bowder Stone

After our luck with the weather when we climbed Helvellyn, the forecast took a bit of a nosedive the following day. With the weather set to veer between dry and raining, we decided to stick…

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