Walking Resolutions for the New Year 1. Walk 1000 miles during 20132. Complete another long distance pathway3. Obtain my Mountain Leader Qualification4. Do more wild camping5. Do a Winter Skills course Anyone else got any other good ideas for 2013? Happy New Year to you all!!!!
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18.12.12Walking with; Nobody The forecast for this week showed Tuesday as being the only rain free day, so bearing that in mind I decided to have a crack at Shining Tor which had long been on my list of “I’ll get round to doing that one day……..”hills. At 559m it is the highest point in
4/5.12.12Walking with; Nobody Wainwright is allegedly described Borrowdale as “the loveliest square mile in the Lake District”, it is also the wettest in terms of annual rainfall with the hamlet of Seathwaite taking the honours and receiving around 3.15 metres of rain a year! So, I couldn’t really be surprised as I pulled into the
15.11.12Walking with; Nobody A combination of family weddings and man flu have meant not much in the way of walking lately and, on the rare occasion I’ve been free, not a great deal of energy to climb tall, pointy things. The beauty of walking however is, of course, you can do it anywhere, and there
29.10.12Walking with; Al A last warm up walk before heading off on my Mountain Leader Training course and what a cracking day it proved to be. Tryfan is one of those iconic mountains that really look the part, the Matterhornesque summit of the type that kids sketch when asked to draw a mountain. Tryfan is
Off on my Mountain Leader Training on Saturday morning with Thornbridge Outdoors. Five days in the Peak District and an overnight expedition in Snowdonia! Should be an interesting and challenging couple of days! Well that’s training completed and it was a challenge but brilliant in spite of the worst weather that The Peak District and
Given that I haven’t been able to get out over the last two weeks I have fallen back on some reminiscing on walks completed in the past…….fun times! In Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah At the end of the Coast to Coast walk! On top of Half Dome, Yosemite, California On the Col Di Bos
5.10.12Walking with; Nobody After a night at Elterwater YHA (great staff and breakfast) I headed over to Ambleside and parked up before following the A591 along to Rydal. The path climbed out of the village and past Rydal Mount, the historic home of Lakeland poet William Wordsworth. The walk up to Nab Scar zig zagged
4.10.12Walking with; Nobody Definition of PIKE dialect English : a mountain or hill having a peaked summit —used especially in place names Origin of PIKE Middle English, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect pīk pointed mountain First Known Use: 13th century As I sat in Windermere Youth Hostel trying to drown out the
