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With no plans for the Sunday and Monday of the Bank Holiday weekend, I made a late decision to head to Herefordshire and bag a few Marilyns, camping in Kington for the night.
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My colleague Aditya and I went for another evening stroll in the Peak District, this time on the hillside above Carsington Water.
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We broke the drive home to explore Chartres and Rouen.
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For the last few days of the holiday we returned to France to explore some of the extinct volcanoes of the Massif Central.
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For the second part of the holiday, we relocated to Arolla in the Swiss Valais Alps. Alex T joined us for a long weekend of easy mountaineering based at the Cabane des Dix, with Mont Blanc de Cheilon being the undoubted highlight.
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For the first part of this year’s main summer holiday, Ruth and I spent a few days near Annecy in the Haute Savoie region of the French pre-Alps. Our excellent, mountainous walks included ascents of two nearby Ultras.
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I headed towards Stafford for two 11km walks ticking off a few Tumps.
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I spent a long weekend with my parents in Minehead. We walked in the Barle valley on Exmoor on the Friday and on the coast near Combe Martin on the Saturday.
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My colleague Aditya and I went for another sunny evening walk in the Peak District, this time in Lathkill Dale.
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The Duffers congregated in Buttermere for Ruth’s slightly belated 30th birthday weekend. The weather stayed mostly dry for good walks around the Buttermere skyline and on the Loweswater Fells.
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My colleague Aditya suggested an evening walk in the Peak District. We opted for a few miles’ circuit from Alstonefield into upper Dovedale.
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Today’s local walk was through the rolling hills, pasture and forests of Charnwood Forest, taking in four new Tumps along the way.
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Ruth and I once again headed to the Highlands for some bagging over Spring Bank Holiday week. This year we were treated to excellent, dry, sunny weather in Torridon, Applecross, Glen Elchaig and Glen Coe. Fourteen new Corbetts for me: 117 down, 104 to go!
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I spent a weekend exploring the South Pennines, ticking off the Marilyns of Hail Storm Hill (above Rossendale) and Freeholds Top (above Calderdale) and spending the night at YHA Mankinholes.
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I headed northwest for a sunny weekend in the hills. On Saturday, I did a solo walk up White Fell in the Forest of Bowland, and on Sunday, I walked with Ruth over Helvellyn from Glenridding.
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For today’s walk I headed to the Upper Derwent Valley, starting at Ashopton and heading north over the moors and back down the valley beside the river and reservoirs. Summer is definitely on its way – temperatures reached 25C in the valley today.
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Some of the Duffers joined me for a typically wet Bank Holiday weekend in Snowdonia, camping by Llyn Gwynant. We did three fairly short walks: up Y Lliwedd on Saturday, to complete my Nuttalls on Mynydd Mawr on Sunday, and up the Great Orme from Llandudno on Monday.
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I and a few other Duffers visited Alex and Caroline in Ewell (outer London) for the weekend. We walked on the North Downs on Saturday, and headed into London Sunday.
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Mum and Dad visited me in Derbyshire. We enjoyed two good walks in sunshine in the Peak District, exploring Gun and the Roaches on Saturday and Monsal Dale and Longstone Moor on Sunday.
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Our trip to the States culminated in Emily and Chris’ wedding, which was held at Sanderling Resort, Duck. This unusual location is on a long sandbank a few miles off the Atlantic coast, known as the Outer Banks. Before the wedding, we explored a little, visiting the site of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flights at Kitty Hawk, and some sand dunes at Jockey’s Ridge.
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