Lake District – Walking. Gossip. Travel.

These photos were taken by other members of the group on our trip during the week, and I’ve just pinched

Lake District – Helvellyn (the Climb Down)

So seven of us climbed up Helvellyn and three decided to go the easy (well, relatively easy) route down and four

Gordon doing his morning exercises before our big Wednesday walk, which was to climb Helvellyn. We parked at Thirl’s Car

I’m pleased to announce that the following awards have been made: BEST DRIVER OF THE WEEK Steve B (for smooth

This has caused a lot of debate, but I can announce the nominees for the various awards from this Lake

My usual little “quotes of the day” feature hasn’t really been running this week, so I thought I’d add a

On the Tuesday, as we wanted a little rest from the exertions of Scafell Pike, we decided to do a

Today we climbed Scafell Pike, which is the highest mountain in England, and it stands at 978 metres above sea-level.

I don’t really run quiz questions on this ‘fascinating’ blog. But today there’s a first. It’s a guess what Gordon

We weren’t staying at Ennerdale YHA, but there was some tempting signage which meant that we did have a little