Middle-aged flash packers

Yesterday saw us using our rest day to make an emergency purchase of walking poles to replace those cruelly broken in half the day before. The local road closure in order to repair a bridge has caused us to take some very hairy diversions along single track lanes, but the worst by a country mile…

How does a nine mile walk end up becoming an all day marathon? Mr Wainwright and his eclectic choice of fells has a lot to answer for. The day started cold but bright. We were heading for Wasdale lake where we would start our list of Wainwright bagging with an ascent up Yew Barrow. I…

We decided that as today was another beautiful weekend day and the fells were likely to be busy, we would walk directly from the house again and avoid driving round trying to find somewhere to park. I’m enjoying this very much as it means we can be out of the house and walking by nine…

The agenda today was slightly different to that planned previously due to the orienteering event. Basically it meant adding 2 extra miles to our hike instead of driving and parking. I felt very virtuous, a bit like an elderly Greta Thunberg, as I spurned the climate change travesty that is a car and used my…

Hands up everybody who would would cancel their 2 week holiday in Spain for a week in the Lake District. Yes, I thought as much. Have we gone mad? But the rain in Spain is falling , whereas the Lake District will supposedly experience unusual blue skies and balmy spring temperatures, so our decision is…