Last night’s ascent of Pen y Fan was easily my best to date. A few colleagues and I had been kicking around the idea of an after work climb for the last couple of years but, as is often the case, great ideas tend to fizzle out unless someone grabs Read more…
The forecast looked very good indeed for Sunday before last providing the perfect excuse to tackle a walk which has been on my ‘to-do’ list for far too long. Our planned route would be the Cwm Clydach walk, a nine mile circuit heading out along the Lower Clydach River before Read more…
When you’ve been crawling around on the floor for several days a decent walk was just what we needed and where better to go than Port Eynon. Now that the summer season is over parking is free (always a bonus) and you can pretty much guarantee that you’ll have the Read more…
It was a return to Ilkley Moor to round off our Leeds trip and unlike last time there wasn’t even the hint of a light shower let alone the deluges which had severely challenged our resolve earlier in the week. In their place was a clear sky and sweltering temperatures Read more…
This is part two of our walk up Fan Fawr and Fan Frynych. For part one click here. If you’ve read part one of this walk then you’ll already have a pretty good idea of the landscape surrounding Fan Frynych. Wide, open areas of upland grass may be seen by Read more…
Our first full day in Cornwall dawned dull and overcast but with no rain forecast we just had to get out along the coast. We were down this way last year and walked the coastal path between Praa Sands and Porthleven then, a repeat of which seemed just the ticket Read more…
Reading back through my various postings this year it quickly becomes apparent quite how kind the weather has been to us of late. Virtually every weekend has seen blue sky and sunshine so it was almost inevitable that last Saturday, having arranged to meet friends for a walk, our luck Read more…
Start: SN 84136 15182 End: SN 84019 15337 Distance: 4miles Overall Altitude Gain: 854ft Terrain: Relatively steep, dangerous drops, open countryside with no signposts once on the hill Difficulty: Medium – navigation difficult in bad weather Introduction More snow last week meant that we just had to get back out Read more…
Written on 26/09/2014, Isle of Mull Today we bagged our first ever Munro. After years of finding excuses not to climb Ben More conditions this morning finally meant that we would be waylaid no longer. Admittedly the force five to six winds and changeable weather were perhaps not ideal for Read more…
In the next week I reach the grand old age of thirty and for almost that entire span I had never seen the view from Snowdon’s summit. It’s not far want of trying either as whether it be by train or on foot I’ve made the pilgrimage skywards on numerous Read more…