Whatever the Weather: a Week in the Western Lakes

We’re very lucky to live close enough to the Lakes to be able to hop across the A66 for day trips to Ambleside or Keswick every few weeks. But the truly wild and remote side…

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Green Crag

After a big day out on the Mosedale horseshoe, my poor little legs weren’t up to another long walk (much to Sam’s disappointment, as he was champing at the bit to do the Ennerdale round…

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The Mosedale Horseshoe

The Mosedale Horseshoe is what I would call ‘a big day out’. Before you get any further, I should clarify/add a caveat/disclaimer that we did the Mosedale Horseshoe without Kirk Fell – we’d already done…

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Hard Knott

Way back in November we had a long weekend in the Western Lakes. The original plan was to bag as many Wainwrights as possible: I was hoping for at least six across the whole weekend,…

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Stanley Ghyll

We are just home from a lovely long weekend in the Lake District. The original plan was to tick off a few more Wainwrights (my aim of completing them before I’m thirty is looking more…

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