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From Scottish West Coast Staycation
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From A Month in Spain...
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From German Visitors
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From 2019 New Year's Day
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From Remembrance Sunday 2018
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From A wet day in Lakeland exploring slate quarries and 'shrooming
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From More awesome Bank Holiday weather
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From A little bumble in Langdale
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From A post CC AGM day in Cwm Idwal
Category: Walking
Walking (mostly in the mountains).
One positive, if such thing makes any sense, from Covid-19 is that many people have discovered just how amazing parts of the UK are! Is there really any need to fly to far flung parts for our holidays every year? Well, I guess climbers always knew this as we spend every weekend, holiday day, etc. …
We’ve just been lucky enough to return from a whole month in Spain, rock climbing and cycling based out of an apartment in Calpe…
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
“How about a luxury black tie dinner at Holbeck Ghyll for New Year’s Eve celebrations?” said Pete, “Only £500.” “Naaaaah, let’s spend the night in the van in a quiet spot in the Duddon valley with friends and of course Zac”, I returned. A much better idea.
100 years since the end of the First World War.
The forecast of a dry day on the Bank Holiday Monday was more than little optimistic. It was wet!
While the south of England is cloaked in fog and Birmingham suffers from flash flooding the north west is continuing to bask in glorious wall-to-wall sunshine!
Pete was working today, teaching micro navigation, so Zac and I went for a bumble.
Although we did get out Saturday morning for a bit of bumble around the Llanberis slate quarries most of the day was taken up with CC business. I had a presentation to deliver about the Ynys Ettws refurbishment, then there was the AGM, talks from Mina Mina Leslie-Wujastyk and Maddie Cope, and finally dinner and …
