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A Snowy Peak District Double

14/15.01.13Walking with; Nobody Tomorrow is my 40th birthday and I’d hoped to fit something special in as a prelude to this momentous landmark, luckily the weather seemed to be on my side and I had two fantastic days in the Peak District with snow lying thick on the ground and barely a soul to be

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White Nancy, Rainow and The Gritstone Trail

3.1.13Walking with; Nobody There are some days when it dawns on you about half way round your chosen walk that you’d be better off nestled in front of a log fire in a cosy pub (such as The Vale in Bollington) with a pint and a good book, rather than slogging through shin deep mud

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On top of Cheshire

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

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Borrowdale……and snow!

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

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A Canalside amble

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

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Tryfan and the Glyders

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

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Some photos from walking trips in the past!

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

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The Fairfield Horseshoe

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

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A Langdale Round involving lots of Pikes and Stickles

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

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The Todmorden Centenary Way

28.9.12Walking with; Nobody The good folk of Yorkshire must have done something to upset the almighty given the almost Biblical deluge that they’d been on the end of over the last week, none-the-less that was where I headed last week with the express intention of getting a few miles in my legs. I stayed in

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