Gavel Fell, Blake Fell & Burnbank Fell

The Lake District isn’t too bad on a bank holiday, if you know where to go. Popular spots like Cat Bells, Grasmere and Ambleside are to be avoided at all costs, but heading up a…

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Troutbeck Tongue

When day tripping to the Lakes, it pays to have a Plan B (or even a Plan C) up your sleeve incase you can’t get parked at Plan A. This is a methodology we had…

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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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