We have had a fantastic couple of days at the Kendal Mountain Festival (KMF) so far seeing some great films, talks and shows. The KMF is the largest mountain festival of its kind in the UK and attracts a huge number of people, from professional climbers, to outdoor enthusiasts from all over the world. The […]

Yen has just spent the last few days in Wales honing her navigation skills with Plas Y Brenin (the national mountain training centre) in the hills and moors of Snowdonia. This is what she said about her experience: “Luckily the weather was extremely mild and stayed reasonably dry, except for the last but one day […]

There are always interesting places to visit and see in the lake district whatever the whether is like. So this morning, after heavy rain in the night and for most of the last couple of weeks to be honest, we decided to take a gentle walk up to Aira Force before the rain started again. […]

After all the rain we have had recently it was a welcome change to get a break in the weather and a lovely sunset over Windermere. See more photos here: Windermere Sunset walk

We have been a little quiet the last few weeks as we have been busy planning, booking and writing up trips for next year. We have now finished the first round of this and are really excited at the variety of trips planned and are looking forward to a great year. These are just some […]

We are planning lots of exciting new walking breaks for next year, so we drove over to Langdale yesterday to have a look at the yurts on the National Trust campsite. It was a beautiful sunny Autumn day and the campsite was very quiet. Its in a Perfect location and the yurts were cosy, well […]

In September I lead a group from Cambridge university who were on a Bill Gates scholarship. They were staying at Ambleside YHA and wanted to split into two groups for a morning walk and then afternoon walk, so we arranged a fairly simple route, from the hostel up onto the top of Loughrigg fell and […]

We had a smaller than normal but very select group nonetheless, for our latest weekend walking break in Keswick, but were blessed with fantastic weather and did two great walks. On Saturday we took a stroll through Keswick to the lake shore to catch the boat across to Hawes End, then headed up Catbells and […]

Last weekend we had a fantastic group of people at Ambleside for a Yoga and walking break. The weather was fantastic and we had two great days walking from the hostel. On Saturday we headed out towards Loughrigg Tarn, then followed the river Brathay to Elterwater, before taking the path over the hillside and through […]

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 […]