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They say it’s all in the timing. Given the departing minibuses and remaining couple of cars at Stoneycroft in Newlands I’d got this one right. Coledale-01.jpg It was getting on for 6 in the evening and the plan was to get beyond Causey Pike before stopping for the night and enjoy the sunset, solitud...

At 9.30 on a Thursday morning, after a 200 mile drive, the Mungrisdale metropolis was heaving. Well, that was a half-term misjudgement and a half. Still, the couple of dozen cars that must have constituted the local “rush minute” couldn’t have disgorged that many walkers, so there was still the pros...

OK - I didn't tell the full story. Bhuidhe-08.jpg But there was no photographic evidence of my plunge through the snow into the burn - thank goodness for underfloor heating, my boots stand in the middle of our hall gently simmering. And I didn't want to embarrass Rocco when he wussed out on the scra...

Another report on Saturday’s efforts on Beinn Bhuidhe Down in Warwickshire on Friday morning - the jury was still out on the weather – but the forecasted whiteouts and gales moved a hundred miles or so south. So, Saturday offered the prospect of the cobwebs being blown away and the possibility of a ...

Hi Andy / Craig / Rocco Just got back south of the border - and was about to post - I'll edit it down now given the story's been told and just post a few words and pics. Despite the conditions it was worth the day out - thanks for the company and Rocco's encouragement. I'm not sure all the party-goe...

With an imminent return to gainful employment – albeit temporarily – I was determined to get in as full a day as possible. The previous day had been a stunner, with clear weather and great views. While a frost still clung to the valley bottoms, the sky above had a greyish tinge and the clouds were j...

Finally, the first hills of 2011, and as a Yorkshireman I thought it was about time I did Sheffield Pike: you know, a bit of missionary work on the wrong side of the Pennines. It was a bleary-eyed start at 6.30am from down in Warwickshire, but a bright-eyed start from the car park at Glencoyne Bridg...

Hi rockhopper Your predicament raised an interesting conversation in our household - and I'd be interested to know what others do. Like you, I'm normally a lone walker who leaves a tolerant other half at home. She knows where I'll be parking the car, knows my planned route, destination and likely re...

A brief report for a brief walk, for a fell that must be one of the most accessible and visited in Lakeland: but for all that, it still deserves its place. As is so often the case, the weather was going to turn out worse than the initial forecast had suggested, and than the early morning blue sky ha...

The drive up was bizarre. Early last Thursday morning we had the kind of hard frost and icing sugar dusting that makes things look pretty, the anxious fear the worst, and me dash for some mountains. Clearly things were different elsewhere. As each report of closed airports from the south east was br...

Glad to see all still smiling - a far better way to spend a Sunday than dodging jams on the M6. Love the morning cloud pic and Jockstar's sense of achievement.

Back down in the deep south now and so belated thanks - to Stretch for your persistence and cut & paste skills in getting the whole thing off the ground - to everyone for their company and chat - to whoever finally sorted the alarm out - and last, but not least to Barney for the everlasting imag...

MC - the path through the woods from the Water of Tulla was way-marked and clear up to the railway line. Once over the bridge the path goes left and stays parallel with the line for ages - so long in fact that I thought I'd missed a path up to the right. As a result I thrashed up towards the fence a...

Yes, the view back on Mullach nan Coirean was very evocative - looking at the photo again, it's like a extinct volcanic crater rather than anything glacial. MC - the hands were used on Stob Ban when my curiosity lured me towards the pinnacles and I was finding my way back to the path - just a mini d...

Thanks for the comments - with surroundings and settings like that I sometimes think you can't fail to take good shots. MC - you could do the route either way - and in hindsight I think the reverse would have given a far more gradual and steady ascent - once beyond the farm at Achallader there is no...

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