Stanton Moor (14th September 2017)

I went for another evening walk in the Peak District with my colleague Aditya, this time heading to Stanton Moor.

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Dove and Manifold valleys (10th September 2017)

I spent a rather grey September Sunday morning walking near the Dove and Manifold valleys, starting in Hartington.

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Looking back over Dovedale to Biggin Dale from Gypsy Bank

August Bank Holiday in the Peak District (27th-28th August 2017)

I took advantage of excellent sunny weather over the August Bank Holiday weekend for two walks in the Peak District: a round of The Roaches and Gun with Dave and Jo on Sunday and a quick blast along White, Curbar and Froggatt Edges on Monday morning.

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Dovedale (24th August 2017)

My colleague Aditya and I went for a couple of hours walk in Dovedale after work.

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Patterdale (18th-20th August 2017)

Ruth and I took our cousin Xavier to the Lake District for a weekend of camping and hillwalking. We stayed at Gillside Farm in Glenridding, and enjoyed walks up Helvellyn (by the Edges) and Place Fell.

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Great views of the head of Ullswater, with St Sunday Crag and Grisedale beyond

Ulm, Heidelberg and Verdun (11th-12th August 2017)

We broke the drive home with visits to Ulm, Heidelberg and Verdun.

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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)

Stelvio National Park (30th July – 3rd August 2017)

For the first few days of this year’s Alpine adventure, we headed to the beautiful Stelvio National Park in the Südtirol region of northern Italy. Based in Trafoi, we enjoyed three day walks to acclimatise and then tackled the easy glaciated peak of Monte Cevedale.

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Minehead (22nd-25th June 2017)

I visited my parents in Minehead for a long weekend. We enjoyed local walks from from Withypool, Wimbleball Lake and Lynton.

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Some sunny Shropshire hills (17th-18th June 2017)

I spent a sweltering sunny weekend exploring some of the hills of western Shropshire, including the Marilyns of Corndon Hill, Heath Mynd and Stiperstones, and numerous Tumps.

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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

Some South Staffordshire hills (14th May 2017)

I made a day trip to South Staffordshire (right down to the west of Birmingham) to tick off my last few Staffordshire Tumps, culminating on the very scenic ridge of Kinver Edge.

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The Sheepwalks, with Brown Clee Hill beyond

The Roaches (7th May 2017)

I went for a walk on The Roaches with my cousin Xavier.

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Staffordshire Tumps around Kidsgrove (23rd April 2017)

I ticked off a few more Staffordshire Tumps, this time around Kidsgrove. Only eight now remain to be bagged, which should be doable in a single day at the southern end of the county.

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Wedgwood’s Monument, which was originally an obelisk four times the height, until damaged by a storm in 1976!

Angus and Braemar (14th-18th April 2017)

I spent Easter weekend in the southern Cairngorms, bagging a few new Munro Tops and Corbetts, and re-visiting a few Munros.

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Parents’ visit (8th-9th April 2017)

My parents visited for a few days. At the weekend we enjoyed glorious sunny weather for two great walks in the Peak District.

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Lake District (24th-26th March 2017)

With a sunny forecast, I made an impromptu weekend trip to the Lake District. On the Saturday, I joined Andrena and Ruth for a long, snowy ridge walk along the Eastern Fells from Ambleside to St John’s in the Vale. On the Sunday, I walked solo from Langdale.

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Black Forest and Swizterland (15th-19th March 2017)

I visited Alex and Ausma for another excellent long weekend, spending a day walking in the Black Forest then three days walking and snowshoeing in the Swiss Alps, based in Küblis.

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Tumps around Leek (4th March 2017)

I spent a day in the countryside around Leek, ticking off eight more Staffordshire Tumps in warm, sunny weather.

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Gun and The Roaches, from the summit of Revedge Hill

Visiting Dave and Jo in Skipton (17th-19th February 2017)

I visited Dave and Jo in Skipton for the weekend, taking the opportunity to bag three of their nearby Marilyns: Sharp Haw, Ilkley Moor and Boulsworth Hill.

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