Author: David Pettit

I'm a keen hillwalker and hill-bagger based in Derby, UK. I also enjoy orienteering, running and playing euphonium in a brass band, but those are not likely to feature so often on my blog.

Band trip to Coniston! (27th-29th October 2017)

I organised a walking trip to the Lake District with some of my friends from Rolls-Royce Derby Band. Most of us walked over Lingmoor Fell in grey weather on the Saturday. A select few turned out again in glorious sunshine on Sunday for a walk over Coniston Old Man and Swirl How!

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Pete, Heather, Grahame, Helen and Jeff at the summit of Swirl How

Lancashire (20th-22nd October 2017)

I spent a long weekend in Lancashire to attend Lucy and Becca’s wedding and do a bit of hillwalking. On the Friday I bagged a couple of new Marilyns, and on the Sunday I revisited Pendle Hill. No photos of the wedding I’m afraid!

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Looking back up to the summit of Winter Hill, from Two Lads

Berlin (22nd-24th September 2017)

I spent a long weekend in Berlin to catch up with the Bibens family, who were on holiday from the USA to take part in the Berlin Marathon. As well as returning to some sights I’d enjoyed on my previous visits, I made first time visits to the Zoo and the Reichstag, and was delighted to be able to attend a fantastic concert by the Berlin Philharmonic.

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Sarah, Katie, Ruth, Emily and Doug on Museum Island

Stubaital (4th-10th August 2017)

For the remainder of our Alpine holiday, we headed northeast across the Austrian border to Stubaital. Volderau proved a convenient (if very wet in the evening!) base for some very spectacular and varied mountain walks and a couple of days’ mountaineering on Zuckerhütl, Wilder Pfaff and Wilder Freiger.

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Ruth, Emma and Ian at the summit of Zuckerhütl (3507m)

Glen Affric, Glen Shiel and Glen Nevis (27th May – 4th June 2017

With Ruth suffering from a knee injury, much of my trip to the Highlands for Spring Bank Holiday week this year was solo. I therefore opted to focus on collecting some of my unbagged Munro Tops around Glen Affric and Glen Shiel, then relocated to Glen Shiel for the final couple of days to bag Corbetts and Grahams in Glen Suileag and Glen Roy. In the middle of the trip, I met up with Ian and Emma for a wet day on Beinn Fhada and a glorious sunny one on The Saddle.

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Ian and Emma above the Forcan Ridge and Glen Shiel