Mens Aktiv II Down Jacket (Poseidon/Citrus) A couple of years ago Fjern were kind enough to give me a couple of pieces of kit to test and I was really impressed with them so when they got back in touch to ask me if I’d like to try out their new down jacket I jumped
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The Poon Hill trek is a classic route in the foothills of the Nepali Himalayas with some spectacular views of the peaks of the Annapurna Range. During high season the trail is very busy with parties of trekkers but we were here during monsoon season with a group of students from Shropshire and whilst we
Who doesn’t like a good pub at the end of a long day of walkng? For many of us it is the ultimate reward for a day in the hills, but what if the only way to reach the pub was a ferry or a solid fifteen miles of walking through some of the UK’s
The excellent Cicerone guidebook “Walking the Snowdonia Way” by Alex Kendall who devised this route describes the Snowdonia Way thus; “running for 97 miles through the mountains of North Wales, the Snowdonia Way is a week-long unwaymarked route that takes you through the heart of Eryri”. I had originally been booked to work on a
The Fisherman’s Way is a 226.5km walking trail along the southern Portuguese coast that is part of the wider Rota Vicentia network of trails. My youngest brother, Gareth, moved down to the Algarve a few years ago and on my visits out to see him and the family we had often discussed the possibility of
The GM Ringway is a relatively new 200 mile, twenty stage, long distance footpath that starts in Manchester city centre before circumnavigating Greater Manchester. It is also the only recognised long distance footpath that I can pretty much join from my doorstep here in Burnage. As one of my goals for my post-op 2025 I
If you are visiting the Lake District there are few more convenient budget options than the YHA in Ambleside which sits just outside the town on the very shores of the waters of Windermere. Housed in what used to be separate Victorian hotels the hostel offers comfortable accommodation with a well equipped self catering kitchen,
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody, sorry it’s a week or so late 🙂 2025 starts with me in a positive frame of mind after a challenging end to 2024 which saw me undergo major surgery on my leg, the removal of a Basal Cell Carcinoma from my face and a very messy
The West Highland Way is probably the best known long distance footpath in the UK being walked by between thirty five and forty thousand people each year. It’s a fantastic introduction to walking in Scotland passing lochs, mountains and moors and giving a real flavour of the Scottish landscape. I have worked on a dozen
As many of you probably know by now my knees are not the best….Osgood Schlatter’s Disease as a teenager, followed by nearly thirty years of rugby and then a couple of thousand miles a year on foot take their toll. After a couple of years when the deterioration had become more marked and after spending
