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 PostIf 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 PostAfter 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 PostNever 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 Post135 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 PostFollowing on from the somewhat lacklustre weather we had in the Lakes during our week there at the start of June, I was thrilled that our Wainwright bagging trip at the start of August had…
View PostNever ones to resist the siren call of the Lakes District, we were back in the Lakes for a weekend at the start of August. Thankfully, we managed to get much better weather than our…
View PostReaders of last week’s blog will know that we recently spent a (rather wet and soggy) week in the Lake District. The first half of the week was slightly better weather wise and we did…
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