Following our trip around Mont Blanc, we packed up the car and headed south to the French border and the Pyrenees. I was due to do my IML (International Mountain Leader) assessment, but we had about a week before to do some travelling around and hike up some of the more interesting summits including Pic […]
Earlier in August, Yen and I embarked on our Tour De Mont Blanc reccy. We are going to run this as a trip next year, so wanted to do a scoot round and check the route and accommodation on the way. We had a great trip although the weather wasnt as kind as we hoped, […]
Those of you in more southern parts of the country will possibly have missed the torrential rain we had here in the lake district over the weekend. On Saturday the rain came down in biblical quantities and refused to budge at all until later in the afternoon, and then Sunday wasnt much better either. However, […]
I returned from Malawi on Sunday after an amazing 21 day trip. We had a few challenges along the way including a 14 hour delay at Lusaka on the way out, 4 bags which turned up 24 hours later and a few tummy upsets. But met some amazing people and had some great experiences during […]
Over the weekend, we based ourselves at Langdale YHA for a full weekends walking. This included a long day out on Saturday to climb Scafell Pike from the Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel and then a more relaxed days walking on Sunday over the tops and down to Easedale Tarn and Grasmere. On Sunday we had […]
We had a fantastic day out on Helvellyn today with a small group from our Lakeland Mountain Hikes Meetup group. Weather was great and it was a really fun group who coped well and thoroughly enjoyed the fun to be had scrambling over Striding Edge. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mountain_hikes/sets/72157644776259997/
Yen and I organised our latest walking weekend over the spring bank holiday and we were blessed with a great group of people, some good weather and a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. The group was 17 people and we based ourselves at the Windermere YHA which has a great location in the village of Troutbeck with […]
