Tag: #mountain
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Scafell Pike
Not blogged in a while and I have several walks to write up. I’ll start with the walk up Scafell Pike though. Zara and I drove over to the Lake District on Thursday after work. The drive was rubbish as we got stuck in Ilkley forever. I had clicked on the quickest route to get…
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Ingleborough – The start of the 2026 mountain season.
The start of the 2026 mountain season, and we kicked things off strong with a firm favourite: Ingleborough. We’ve been up Ingleborough before, I’ll pop that route at the bottom of the page for anyone who wants to compare past suffering, but today’s route was definitely the best. This time we started from Clapham, parking…
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Yr Wydffa (Snowdon)
Annual leave, a sunny weather forecast and nothing planned. It was inevitable that a mountain was chosen as an adventure. Luckily on Thursday morning I was able to book into the Llanberis campsite and Zara and I set off to Wales that afternoon. So I now have another road to add to my hatred list. …
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Buckden Pike
7th highest mountain in the Dales, coming in at 702m. Supposedly this mountain has the best views in all of the Dales. I wouldn’t know if this is true or not though. I will probably be walking up it again shortly, maybe the weather will be kinder this time? This walk starts in Buckden at…
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Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge
For pure pleasure and as it’s always been on my bucket list, we took on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge. We followed and mapped to the official route that allows you to start in 3 places and can be completed in a clockwise and anticlockwise direction. As we stayed in Ingelton the night before, we…
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A walk on the Wild sid.. Boar Fell
I’ve been dreaming of getting back into the Dales the last few weekends, but the weather has been fairly rubbish with high winds so not really safe for us to do so. This is a write up of our last mountain walk which ticked off both Wild Boar Fell (708m) before moving onto Swarth Fell…