Archive Index

• Have You Lost Your Spectacles in the Northern Fells
• Across Scotland In a Day II
• Don’t Let The UK Government Con You Into All-Electric!
• Nine Standards Rigg
• Update – Urgent Footwear Recommendations
• Urgent! Footwear Recommendations Needed!
• Sympathetic Robin!
• 2022 Stats Post/Happy New Year!
• Christmas is Cancelled!
• Four-Times-Illegal Cumbrian Hunters
• Newlands Beck Gill Exploration
• Hillwalking With Exercise-Induced Asthma
• Anthrax O2 City Hall, Newcastle
• Hope Beck Exploration and Round
• Further Delays to Posting!
• Did You Hide Your Flask on Meal Fell
• Foaling Around on Walla & Blaeberry
• Highland Cross – It’s Now or Never (again)
• Probably Can’t Post For A While Yet…
• Late Skiddaw Snow After Work
• Place Fell a Different Way
• 2021 Stats Post/Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas!
• High Cup Nick & Murton Pike
• Cross Fell, Great & Little Dun Fells
• Sheffield Pike & Glenridding Dodd
• How to Get Stuck on Grassy Binsey!
• Steel Edge, Wetherlam
• Cam Crag Ridge Scramble
• Eagle & Sergeants Crags, Borrowdale
• Government’s Mistreatment of Key Workers
• Mooching at Long Meg, Lacey’s Caves et al
• Walking Hartley & Gate Crags, Eskdale
• Brant Rake, Eskdale
• Drama in the Grassy Northern Fells – Frozen Fell Gill
• 2020 Stats Post/Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas
• Test Post – Stray Photos
• High Pike via Brandy Gill & Carrock Mines
• Seathwaite Fell by Grains and Taylor Gills
• Green Gable, Base Brown & Brandreth
• Whinlatter Round aka ‘Caught in the Forest’!
• Blencathra via Halls Fell & Doddick – in record time!
• Great Calva via the Magnificent Hause Gill
• Ginger Piggy
• Grasmoor via Gasgale Gill & Dovecrags Arete
• Quick Rant About The Conspiracy Theorists!
• Howgills – Did Carlingill but Missed the hill!
• Snowy High Pike… Made me Sick!
• Bannerdale Crags East Ridge – Stow Your Poles Please!
• Job Application: pre-Feminist Extremist Days
• The Black Lagoon Strikes Again!
• Middleton Woods Bluebells (Ilkley)
• The Joker
• The (Equal) Dangers of Lowland Walking and a funny story
• Figueroa Mtn Freedom: Violating the COVID-19 Lockdown Order — Jack Elliott’s Santa Barbara Adventure
• The Lost & The Undressed (Archival)
• Last Artwork Post (hopefully)
• More Artwork – Horses
• More Artwork – Pets and Wildlife
• Mean Joke!
• Fairy Folklore Tale & Drawing
• 2019 Stats Post/Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas!
• Skiddaw How Gill Left Branch
• Whinash Ridge, Westmorland
• New Danger to Hillwalkers from Ticks in the UK
• Mischief Night – a Northern Tradition or a British One?
• Bloody Snow?!
• A Hard-bitten Walker on the Bowscale to Souther Fell Round
• Eskdale – Climbing Crags Exploration & Muncaster Fell
• Swindale Outlying Wainwrights
• Not Loving Shepherds Crag Climbing
• Climbing My Local Quarry at Last!
• Wandhope (again) – Third Gill Exploration
• Hindscarth via Far Tongue Gill
• Wandhope – the Daftest Route I Could Find!
• Wandhope via Addacombe Hole
• Glaramara & Allen Crags
• Evening Dock Tarn & Haystacks Again
• East Coast Tour – Scarboro’, Whitby, Staithes, Robin Hood’s Bay
• Yorkshire East Coast Tour – Sandsend
• Hole of Horcum, North York Moors
• Whinfell Ridge – Cracking Ridge but a Long Finish
• Durham – a Beautiful Old City Day Out
• Goodbye UFO (sadly)
• Alcock Tarn Evening Walk
• Binsey & Whittas Park in the Snow
• Fairfield & Great Rigg on a Dire Day
• 2018 Annual Totals/Happy New Year
• Merry Christmas to all my Readers
• Sale Fell – Excellent Skiddaw Viewpoint
• Grayrigg Pike At Last (had my eye on this for years!
• Hill-Walking Alone in Scotland
• Hip Replacement – Getting Going Again
• Richard’s Wainwright Compleation – Branstree & Selside Pike
• Hip Op – Back to Work
• Post Hip Op – Week 2 Onwards
• Post Hip Op – Week 1
• Hip Replacement Op
• Normal Service Will Be Resumed…
• Oh No! Not More Health Cr@p!
• Litter!
• Whitbarrow-the-awkward
• Sometimes it’s Okay to say You’re Not Okay
• Chome & Parkhouse Hills, White Peak
• Woooo! SOMETIMES I can still do it!
• Monsal Head (White Peak) from the A6
• Gurnal Dubs in Snow from the A6
• Ambulances – Switch Satnav OFF!
• Hearing Both Sides
• Alcock Tarn in a Blizzard!
• A Bad Day on my Favourite Mountain – and its proper name!
• Sledging on Blencathra! (archival)
• Log Pile!
• 2017 Stats Post/Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas to you all!
• Kendal Rambling – Hay Fell & Scout Scar
• Upper Eskdale – the Difficult Route
• Totally Different Route up Skiddaw
• Base Brown’s Pointy Nose
• Hindscarth via Littledale Rake
• New House – Motorbike Move
• New House – The Good… and the Maybe…
• Sgurr Cos na Breachd-Laoigh, Loch Arkaig
• 6 Weeks Off?!
• An Teallach Compleation Walk – My Photos…
• Finished on An Teallach!
• Sgurr na Feartaig – on all Fours!
• Whiteside to Grisedale Pike – Lakeland’s Golden Mile
• Great Gable – Trying to Get Fit!
• Fairy Pools, Glenbrittle, Skye
• The Crookdale Horseshoe
• The Great Laund Oak is no More!
• Dramatic Neist Point, Skye
• The Back Way Between Armadale & Broadford
• Rubha an Dunain, Skye
• Barrow – Easy Walk When I Wanted a Hard One
• 2016 Stats Post / Happy New Year
• Dale Head Photo Fest
• t’Other Wasdale Round
• Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen
• Long Mynd – Pole Bank and a Huge Liar!
• Caer Caradoc, Ragleth Hill & Hope Bowdler Hill
• Liathach Traverse
• Grievous Guibhais
• Rossett Pike via Rossett Gill Direct
• Sgurr Dubh & a String of Disasters
• Robinson via the North-East AND North Ridges
• Ben Nevis Ledge Route & CMD
• Ben y Vrackie and a Famous Proclaimers Song
• Days off Around Fort William – Blackwater Dam
• Days off Around Fort William-Loch Arkaig & Dark Mile
• Making a Mess of Sgor Ban, Beinn a’ Bheithir
• MacLeod’s Tables, Skye
• Beinn Dearg Big and Middle (Red Cuillin)
• Bruach na Frithe North Ridge
• Dormant Bottom Syndrome!
• Meall Cumhann – Best Viewpoint in Glen Nevis!
• Forcan Ridge with Steve Fallon
• Birker Moor Outlying Wainwrights & a Deadly Disease!
• Oliver Gill Scrambling
• Around Ireby & Uldale, NW Cumbria
• Lead Mining – a Black & White Issue?
• Wet but not Cold Fells
• Carn Cloich-Mhuillin
• Staveley Outlying Wainwrights and a Vampire Dog!
• 3 Loweswater Wainwrights
• Ethical Walking Wear
• My Dinnertime Walk
• Tarn & Grey Crags, Longsleddale
• Carn Elrig with Imelda
• Tarn Hows – Summer and Winter
• Niggling Groin Strain? Get an X-Ray!
• Stark, Bare & Beautiful
• Misgivings on Moruisg
• The Aran Mountains – a Shocking Experience
• A Slither Around the Langdale Pikes
• 2015 Stats Post / Happy New Year
• Merry Christmas!
• Deepdale Round – St. Sunday Crag et al
• The Old Man Of Storr
• Cumbrian Flood Appeal
• Hardendale Nab, Shap
• Days off Around Braemar – Linns o’ Dee & Quoich
• Days off Around Braemar – Muir O’ Dinnet
• Tidal Isle of Oronsay, Skye
• Glen Achall Gorge Scramble, Ullapool
• Druim Mor & Monega Hill (Caenlochan Glen)
• Lochnagar via The Royal Bothy
• The Four Tops (Glen Derry)
• Am Fasarinen – Liathach’s Gnashers
• The Creatures from the Black Lagoon!
• Ben More Assynt South Top
• Dreich on Sgurr Creag an Eich
• Stob a’ Choire Odhair, Knoydart
• Saddle Tops from the South via The Pylon Track
• Bereft in The Slig – The Personality Defects of a Bagger
• Hilarious – Wild Sheep Alert!
• Sgurr a’ Ghreadaidh & Banachdich Tops – Gripping Stuff!
• Sgurr Sgumain to Thearlaich
• A Superb Day on the Tops of Aonach Mor
• Gowbarrow and a Night of Agony
• Carn Dearg, Ben Nevis – Go The Other Way!
• Grey Corries – Nice Ridge, Shame About The Finish
• An Garbhanach – Please Make a Cairn Someone!
• Stob Coire a’ Mhail – with no Devils
• Twistleton Climbing – Should Have Stayed in Bed!
• Wiay, Outer Hebrides
• Birkhouse Moor with a Third Leg!
• Brimham Rocks
• Water View
• The Motorway Service Station Gateway to Scotland
• An Invaluable Munroing Companion
• Trespassing in the Hambledon Hills
• Ben Wyvis & All His Tops
• Dorset Coast & Durdle Door
• Hunting Haunted Backstone Circle
• The Stupendous Basteir Gorge
• Skiddaw via Ullock Pike Ridge
• Reminiscenses of a Wainwright-Bagger
• Hard Knott & Border End
• Grike, Crag Fell & Lank Rigg
• Haunted Hebrides
• High Rigg on a Lovely Winter’s Day
• 2014 Stats Post / Happy New Year
• Ullscarth – After a bit of a Search
• Broken Down Hag on Ben Vorlich & Little Hills
• Misty Borrowdale
• Ben Tianavaig, Skye
• Great Borne & Starling Dodd from Ennerdale
• Beinn Fhada – the Daunting Sister
• Fiskivaig to Talisker Bay
• The Basteir Tooth
• Liathach’s Meall Dearg – Wait a Minute…
• Beinn Eighe – So Good, I Almost Did It Twice!
• Stob Garbh (Cruach Ardrain)
• Return Creise – it’s Just Not Cricket!
• Taynuilt Peak by Train
• Blaven South Ridge
• Loch Coruisk & a Visit to The Bad Step
• Actually Enjoying Climbing at Hutton Roof
• Loch Monar Wilderness – Meall Mor
• Ben Avon & Beinn a’ Bhuird Tops from Inchrory Lodge
• Creag Meagaidh Round – Minus Creag Meagaidh!
• Ben Starav Southern Tops & a Wrecked Car!
• Sgurr an Fhuarail
• Beinn Fhada East Ridge Top
• Bob’s Blog Post on my Compleation Walk on Ben Lui
• Beinn Sgritheall NW Top
• Animal Attacks!
• A Return to the Five Sisters
• Compleation Walk – Up & Down Ben Lui
• Braeriach – Chalamain Gap or Coylumbridge?
• Descending to Tom Dubh
• Compleation At Last! 31 May 2014
• Glas Mheall Mor via The Gaick Pass
• Saileag Three & The Misplaced Cairn
• Troutbeck Tongue and a String of Cockups!
• High Pike & Roughton Gill Exploration
• Mapless on the Cairn Mairg Round
• Easter Jokelet 🙂
• The Tarmachan Ridge
• Two Days to do The Lawers Round – Mainly in the Clag!
• Mealls Corranaich & a’ Choire Leith
• Aiming Low – Low Fell and Fellow Mossers
• Winter Beinn MacDuibh (Ben MacDui)
• Upside-down Weather Walking
• An Caisteal & Beinn a’ Chroin
• Confused on (Beinn) Chabhair
• Snowy Ben Oss & Dubhchraig
• Stob a’ Choire Odhair
• Beinn Ime (again), Ben Dorain & An Dothaidh
• Richard’s Booze Cruise II
• Settle to Malham with Rye Loaf Hill
• 2013 Stats Post / Happy New Year
• Black Crag, Holme Fell & a Gurt Hole!
• Dear Lake District National Park…
• Mountain Rescue – Another Angle
• Skye Fairy Glen, Uig
• A Long Way for a Top (Ceathreamhnan E Top)
• Help – Be a Photo Judge (Autumn)
• Battling St. Jude
• Loony Ben (Luinne Bheinn)
• Ladhar Bheinn
• Knoydart’s Misty Meall Buidhe
• Devious Duuncan!
• Skye Cuillin – A Summing Up
• Am Basteir – The Executioner!
• Help! Be a Photo Judge – The Results!
• The Inaccessible Pinnacle – Part 2
• The Inaccessible Pinnacle
• Sgurr Mor by Boat… or not?
• Beinn Fionnlaidh – The Day of Reckoning Arrives…
• Saving £73 a Night on the Mullardoch Munros
• Loch Quoich Camping & Munroing
• Islam – Discuss!
• Blooming Beautiful Cumbrian Lanes
• Lakeland Sunsets
• Remote Hostelling Trip – Loch Ossian SYHA
• Gear Review – Berghaus Freeflow 25+5L Rucsac
• Appleby Horse Fair
• Touristing on Skye – The Calm After the Storm
• All-in On Beinn Alligin
• Coire a’ Ghrunnda Munros (Sgurrs nan Eag & Dubh Mor)
• Very Sgurry nan Gillean
• Salvaging a Wasted Trip on Pike o’ Blisco
• Rapidly Lowering Expectations in Borrowdale
• Tarn Crag via Codale & Easedale Tarns
• A Quick Funny!
• Drifting Back Into Winter
• Repulsed by Skiddaw (Weather to Turn Back…)
• A Round of Greenhead Gill (or Fairfield Photo-Fest!)
• Snaefell to the Druidale Hills
• Evening Walk to Broughton Ponds
• Isle of Man – Spanish Head & The Chasms
• Isle of Man – North Barrule & Snaefell
• Isle of Man – Are You Missing Out?
• Wilful Wensleydale Wandering
• Would You Pitch a Tent Here?
• THE (Yorkshire) 3 Peaks – My Route…
• Arran – Two Walks from Glen Rosa
• Lakeland 3000 Footers
• 2012 Stats Post / Happy New Year
• Winter Camping on Skye
• What NOT to do in the Mountains!
• An Exploration of Warrendale Knotts & Caves
• A Winter Dash of the Kentmere Round (& The Connies)
• The Corney Fell Hi-jack!
• Munroing in the Rough Bounds of Knoydart
• Inspiring Blog Award – Coming to a Blog Near You Today!
• One-and-a-half Feet in the Lakes
• Lakeland Autumn Colours
• Stop Thief! A Cautionary Tale…
• Finishing The Fannaichs
• Castle Tioram and The Silver Walk
• Stob Gabhar & Western Tops
• A Big Thanks to all Who Contributed 🙂
• Ben More & Stobinian – the Round
• The Prodigal Film
• Cul Beag – Steep Little Corbett
• Do The NHS Know What They’re Doing?
• One Foot in the Lakes
• A Traverse of Mount Keen
• Sutherland Beaches – Peace on Earth…
• London 2012 – Irritating for Some
• Affric Ambling
• You’ve Been Framed!
• Arrochar Alps – aka Bumbling About in the Mist
• Gillaval Glas Round Attempt aka ‘The Germans’
• Hosta – a Beautiful but Dangerous Beach!
• North Harris – Uisgnaval Mor Round
• Hebridean Sunsets
• Battling Up Grisedale to the Tarn
• Say it With Flowers
• Yet More Breaking News 😦
• Circles, Monoliths & Tors
• Long Preston Old Lanes (Yorkshire Dales)
• Water – The Power & the Peace
• A’ Chralaig & Mullach Fraoch-Choire
• The Fairy Glen
• Blaven – A Strong Case For Stone-Pitching!
• Sgurr Mhic-Choinn-eeeek!
• Sgurr Alasdair – King of the Cuillin
• ‘Breaking’ News!
• An Dorus Twins (Mhadaidh & Ghreadaidh)
• Carn Dearg from Dalwhinnie – Winter Walking in April!
• Beinn-a-Ghlo-in-the-snow
• Really Hate to Have to Do This…
• Winding Down on the Kentmere Round
• Children Imprisoned by Invisible Force-field!
• Beinn Bhuidhe Trespass
• A Round of Stuc a’ Chroin & Beinn Each
• A Mountain Coward’s First Multi-Pitch Rock Climb!
• The Pathless Peaks Between Loch Eynort and Lochboisdale (S Uist)
• Sunny Connies
• Conistone Dib
• No Escape from The Borrowdale Floods!
• Winter Penyghent – A Drag Without Spikes!
• Thanks to my Readers for a Great First Year!
• Waterfalls to Whernside
• Haystacks on a Glorious Day & a Poor Lost Dog
• Lake District Inversions (Slideshow)
• Middleton Woods Bluebells (Ilkley)
• Quick Photo Post From Lakes – Slight Inversions
• Tarbert Circular via Laxadale Lochs & Rhenigidale (Harris)
• Heaval, Barra
• Ben More Uist & The Mini Striding Edge (& Ben Corodale)
• Hecla, South Uist
• Bored With Mountains – Let’s Have Motorbikes Instead!
• Snowy Dalehead, Borrowdale
• Richard’s First Serious Mountain Walking in the White Stuff
• The Coniston Range in a Proper Winter (Jan 2009)
• Ample Snow on Our Vorlich
• 2011 Stats Post – Updated and Final
• 3 Week Beginner’s Climbing Course
• The Merrick and the Big Cat of Dalrigh!
• The Fossil Tree, Mull
• Ben More Mull & A’ Chioch
• Arran – A Coward on Cioch na h’ Oighe
• Bothying in the Rough Bounds of Knoydart (Carn Mor)
• T is for Tom a’ Choinnich & Toll Creagach
• A Soaking on An Socach (Affric)
• Arran’s A’ Chir – The Coward’s Route
• Two Fisherfields from Heights of Kinlochewe
• Liathach’s Western Ridge
• Liathach on a Leash – Bit of a Ropey Walk
• Yorkshire Dales – Gordale Scar to Malham Cove
• Jabal Harun, Jordan (plus links to The High Place & Wadi Rum Docs)
• A Winter Trip to the Famous Tarf Hotel
• Kilimanjaro – a Trek up the Machame Route
• Mount Kenya – or not as the case may be…
• Fisherfield – Shenaval Trip, Part 2
• Fisherfield – Shenaval Trip, Part 1
• Arrochar Cave Trip Plus Some Soggy Munroing
• Midsummer Bivvy on Snowdon Summit
• The Beautiful Mountains of the Isle of Arran (slideshow)
• An Socach (Mullardoch) – An Exercise in Unorthodox Navigation
• Dheiragain & Ceathreamhnan – A Long, Hard Day from Glen Elchaig
• South Shiel Big Dipper
• Cairn Toul, Angels, Devils and Clag
• An Sgarsoch Two – Long Day With Unexpected Company
• Lochnagar – Done Properly!
• A Cracking Day on Mam Sodhail and all his Tops
• The Strathfarrar Four Plus Tops
• A Mullardoch Squelch! (Carn nan Gobhar)
• The Carn Glusaid 3 Made Into a 7
• First Visit to the Cuillin – 2nd Peak – Bruach na Frithe
• First Visit to the Cuillin – Sgurr na Banachdich
• Stressing Around the Craig Sgurrs, Glen Carron
• Maol Chean-Dearg – not as nice as it looked!
• Coire Lair Munros at Last (Sgor Ruadh & Beinn Liath Mhor)
• Putting the PUSH into Pushbiking to Bendronaig Bothy (Sheasgaich & Lurg Mhor)
• Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5k Walk & My 2nd Climbing Wall Visit
• Eaval (Eabhal) North Uist
• Uneasy Walking to the Tip of South Uist
• Jellied Appendages & Richard-in-suspenders on the Climbing Wall!
• Wadi Mudhlim – Alternative Route into Petra, Jordan
• Stob Ban, Grey Corries
• Aonach Eagach for Cowards
• Sgurr na Sgine & Faochag – Horrible Hills?
• Yewbarrow – the Mighty or Terrible
• Unflattering Photos of my Bum! 😉
• Hellgill,Climbers Traverse,Wavering on the Crinkly Bad Step
• Dunnerdale Fells – and how to Make a Drama of Them!
• Beinn Eighe & The Upside-down Corrie
• Ciste Dhubh – Quick! Run Away!
• 5 Sisters of Kintail – An Ordeal for Mountain Cowards!
• Beinn Fhada & a’Glas Bheinn – Final Day of Hell in Kintail
• Canisp and a Bad Case of Wind
• Cruach Ardrain & Beinn Tulaichean from the Wrong Side!
• Steel Edge, Wetherlam
• Hell Gully! Dow Crag
• Piers Gill Route
• Tales From the Nuthouse
• An Teallach Minus Corrag Buidhe
• Blind Corbetting Around Glencoe – Day2 – Fraochaidh
• Blind Corbetting Around Glencoe – Day1 – Mam na Gualainn
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