In December, Rob and I decided to head back to Cadair Idris, the highest mountain in southern snowdonia. We had tried to climb it in 2019, but it was a bit of a disaster as the weather beat us off the hill and we’d only gone as far as Llyn Continue Reading
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West Highland Way Day 2: Bridge of Orchy to Glen Coe
After a good night’s sleep, I broke camp and walked back down the hill to rejoin the West Highland Way, and walked the short distance round to Mam Carraigh. I walked up to the cairn and enjoyed some great views down to Loch Tulla and up to some of the Continue Reading
West Highland Way Day 1: Crianlarich to Bridge of Orchy
The astute amongst you will note that the title of this post says ‘Day 1’ but does not start in Milngavie, which is where the West Highland Way traditionally starts if you are doing it south to north. This is because I had only 4 days available to me, and Continue Reading
Wild Camp: Fur Tor and an emergency tarp re-pitch
In October I decided to drive back down to Dartmoor National Park and walk to one of the more remote Tors, Fur Tor. I decided to tackle it from Postbridge, and I will start this post by saying that having done it, I wouldn’t recommend this route particularly (see below Continue Reading
Wild Camp: Father and Son Bivi on Black Tor, Dartmoor
In late June, my son and I travelled down to Meldon Reservoir in order to do some walking on north Dartmoor. We arrived much later than expected as the traffic was poor, and as we had only a couple of hours until rain was forecast we decided on the modest Continue Reading
Wild Camp: Cambrian mountains and Pumlumon Fawr summit
In June I had a free weekend and I decided to head back to Wales. The June 2021 issue of Trail Magazine had a nice circular route taking in the highest summit in mid-Wales, Pumlumon Fawr, as well as Y Garn, a summit just to the south. I had wanted Continue Reading
Wild Camp: A wild night in the Rhinogs – Snowdonia
A few days after heading for the Lake District I made my way down to Snowdonia National Park, intending to do a couple of days walking in the Rhinogs, an area of the park that is less visited than some of the areas further north. I parked at the small Continue Reading
Wild Camp: Lake District – Haystacks and Innominate Tarn
In early May, when covid travel restrictions had eased sufficiently to permit it, my friend Rob and I headed for the Lake District, with the intention to have a weekend there before Rob headed home and I continued, perhaps on into Scotland. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas and things Continue Reading
Wild Camp: Galloway Forest Park, Sandwood Bay and Glas Bheinn, Assynt
That might sound an odd collection of locations for walking and wild camping, and indeed they are. This was a different trip for me. Normally I would catch the sleeper service to Scotland. I have, in fact, never driven to Scotland and I’m in my forties. However, with Covid in Continue Reading
Wild Camp: My stag-do – Wild Camp on Oke Tor
In November 2019, my friend Rob and I set off from South West London to Belstone on the Northern fringes of the Dartmoor National Park. My impending marriage was just about a month away and we had decided to nominally call this my stag do, although Rob did point out Continue Reading