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 […]