Above the Clouds
From my recent walk over Crikle Crags and Bowfell, the lighting caught my eye. We were well above the cloud base and you can see some of the other mountains poking through the cloud.
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Crinkle Crags and Bowfell
A 9.5 mile loop around one of the most popular parts of the Lake District - Crinkle Crags and Bowfell above Langdale.
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Pendle Hill Walk
Did an 8 1/2 mile walk round Pendle hill today.
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Rydal Water and Grasmere
Saturday saw a lesiurely walk round the two small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, with lunch at a rather nice cafe at Grasmere.
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Kirkstone Pass walk
The first walk of many more in 2006. This walk covered Hartsop Dodd, Caudale Moor (Stony Cove Pike), St Ravens Edge and Red Screes.
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Wainwright Bagging List
I have decided to have a go at ‘bagging’ all the Wainwrights. Wainwrights are mountains / hills in the Lake District that A Wainwright wrote about in his famous pictorial guides.
There are 214 of them, and this is likely to take more than a year to do due to other commitments.
Continue Reading 2 comments January 3rd, 2006
The Old Man of Coniston
I have climbed The Old Man of Coniston twice now, once in 2003 and once in 2004. The old man is 805m tall - the seventh highest mountain in England by relative height, and the 24th highest in the lakes overall. It is located near Coniston Vallage on the shore of Coniston lake made famous by Donald Campbells speed records.
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