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Lake District - Blencathra via Hall's Fell Ridge, Doddick Fell and Sharp Edge...
It's been twenty-odd years since the first and last time I walked in the Lake District. I blame it on the relative proximity and accessibility of Snowdonia's wonderful peaks. Either way, Deb and I...
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Snowdonia - The Snowdon Horseshoe...sort of, 8/6/13
After a week of summery weather (a whole week!) and the sunshine set to continue into the weekend, it would be daft to expect Snowdonia to be anything other than a bit busy. Particularly so following...
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Gear Review: Scarpa Baltoro GTX (UPDATED 10/7/13)
For the last couple of years I've been mainly wearing Scarpa's excellent 3-4 season 'SL Activ' mountain boots all year round in Snowdonia. The substantial redesign over previous incarnations of the SL...
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Lake District - Helvellyn's Edges, plus a bit - 29/6/13
Many moons ago, back when I had a proper job, I was a member of my employer's informal walking group (in reality five blokes from the Engineering Dept. who would rather be up a hill in Snowdonia than...
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The Berwyns - Cwm Maen Gwynedd, 1/7/13
When a stranger approaches you via the internet and asks to meet you on some remote Welsh hillside, I did what any sane person would do and got myself a packed lunch ready. In reality, Bill and I had...
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Snowdonia - (How to get lost on the) Nantlle Ridge, 6/7/13
Of all Snowdonia's lofty ridges, the Nantlle Ridge must win the accolade of most mispronounced. It is also probably the finest, its quivering crest running across a chain of mini mountains for around 4...
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Lake District - The Scafells from Borrowdale, 13/7/13
A trip up England's highest had been on the cards for sometime. Initial postponements had come about due to bad weather. However, it was Deb's recent altercation with a shopping trolley that has seen...
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Lake District - Scafell Pike via Skew Gill scramble, 3/8/13
My regular reader may remember that Deb has been out of action for a while with a bosted toe. This, in conjuction with a precipitant June, had meant that her desire to scale Scafell Pike as part of a...
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Snowdonia - Tryfan's Milestone Gully & the Bochlwyd Horseshoe, 10/8/13
The scramble up Tryfan's Milestone Gully has been on my to-do list for a while. Many a time have I ambled along the A5, enroute for the classic north ridge and gazed in curiosity up to its dark,...
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Macedonia - Elen Vrv, Galičica National Park, 22/8/13
We've just returned from our annual jaunt to Macedonia and, in between meals, managed to fit in some decent walks in the mountains. You may think I'm being flippant when I say 'in between meals' but...
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Macedonia - The Galičica Traverse, 23/8/13
As mentioned on previous posts, we've spent a fair bit of time over the last few years exploring the Galičica massif, in Macedonia's Galičica National Park. Our activities have tended to concentrate on...
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Macedonia - Pelister, 26/8/13
Most Macedonians have heard of Pelister - its image and name grace bottles of one of the nation's most well known mineral waters, Pelisterka. Pelister National Park is also Macedonia's oldest, formed...
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Macedonia - Golem Korab, 30/8/13
Our final walk of 2013's holiday in Macedonia saw us heading up to its highest peak, Golem Korab (either 2754m/9035ft or 2764m/9068ft depending on which source you believe - my GPS agreed with the...
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Snowdonia - Moel Siabod, 28/9/13
Barely less than a month after walking to the top of Macedonia, we finally found time to head back over to Snowdonia for a gentle bimble over familiar ground. We hadn't been up Moel Siabod for a while...
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Snowdonia - Carneddau south circuit, 23/11/13
I seem to have got way behind on walk write ups over the last few months, so I thought I'd better cobble the pictures up if nothing else! This was a walk over the southern Carneddau in the first snow...
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Snowdonia - Y Garn from Nant Peris, 22/2/14
A short bimble up Y Garn from the Nant Peris side, taking in the impressive Afon Las falls. Relentless 55mph winds and -10C windchill up top, coupled with lowering grey clouds saw us abandon plans to...
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Snowdonia - Snowdon via the Watkin Path, 7/11/12
With Deb having a few days off work, we'd decided that a mid-week walk was in order. While deciding where to go we were contacted by Max, one half of BrodyrChwerthin Wrecsam (not a traditional Welsh...
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Snowdonia - Arenig Fawr, Remembrance Sunday 11/11/12
On 11/11/12, Remembrance Sunday, a group of us set off for the outlying Snowdonian peak of Arenig Fawr. Our intention was to pay our respects at the summit memorial to the eight American aircrew who...
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Snowdonia - Up the Glyders, 13/1/13.
You hope that when the Met Office mountain forecast bandies around such terms as 'blue sky', 'amazing clarity' and 'sunny spells' with gay abandon that there is a very, very slim chance that it might...
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Snowdonia - Carneddau Crazy, 20/1/13
I'd been checking the Snowdonia webcams frequently during the 'Big Freeze' of January 2013 - the BBC's rather sensationist designation for what was nowt more than a spell of cold weather. Call it...
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Snowdonia - Snowdon via Rhyd Ddu, 2/3/13
With forecasts of sunshine and potential cloud inversions on the cards, we hoofed it over to Snowdonia to have a wander up the big 'un. It was indeed sunny as we belted along the A5, with ne'er a cloud...
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Snowdonia - Snowdon in the Snow, 6/4/13
With snow on the ground in the first week of April and sunshine forecast for the weekend, Deb and I didn't need too much encouragement to hoof it over to the Parc for a mess about on the big'un. Under...
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Snowdonia - Y Glyderau traverse: Capel Curig to Nant Peris, 20/4/13
I'd idly considered an end-to-end traverse of the Glyders on numerous occasions over the years but things never progressed much beyond the initial idea. However, stumbling across this year's timetable...
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Snowdonia - Cadair Idris with a crunch, 30/3/13
With snow still on the ground we decided a walk up Cadair Idris by our favourite route, the Minffordd path, was in order. I'm writing this some 5 weeks after the event (lazy git that I am) so the finer...
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Snowdonia - Southern Carneddau circuit: Pen yr Ole Wen to Llyn Cowlyd, 4/5/13
After a thoroughly enjoyable end-to-end traverse of the Glyderau range a couple of weeks ago, employing the excellent Sherpa bus service, I was keen to see what other linear walks I could cobble...
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