A homepage for my hillwalking photos
I visited Ian and Emma in Kendal for the weekend. We walked on the Coniston Fells (from Dunnerdale) on the Saturday and on Wansfell on the Sunday morning. I also had time to bag the Marilyn of Claife Heights before heading home.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/e4YpT12gXWCUZntw5
I made the most of a sunny winter day by heading to the Dark Peak for an anticlockwise 20-mile round of the Edale skyline, starting in Hope.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bUYWRNH5anSfpDZw9
I spent a few hours visiting a few Tumps west and northwest of Stafford; they’re not close enough together to sensibly connect on foot so a series of short walks and intervening drives was the order of the day!
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I spent rather a grey day bagging a few more Staffordshire Tumps, starting in Keele village.
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This year’s Youngish Duffers’ New Year Trip went across the sea to the Isle of Mull, where we stayed in the comfortable Salen Pier House. Reasonable weather, for the most part, allowed me to visit eight of the island’s nine peaks over 2000ft.
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As usual, I spent Christmas with my parents in Minehead, and we did a few short local walks.
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I made an “emergency” weekend trip to the Brecon Beacons to re-complete my Nuttalls (English and Welsh 2000ft hills) following the recent promotion of Craig Gwaun Taf to the list. As well as the re-completion, I was rewarded with a spectacular cloud inversion around the high Beacons, and some snow on the tops. On the Sunday I bagged a few Marilyns on the western edge of the Black Mountains.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gGaRYjRrMHF9gbkG9
I spent five days in the Southern Highlands, bagging a few Corbetts in mostly good weather from a base in Tyndrum.
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I continued my exploration of Staffordshire (and its Tumps!) with a short post-orienteering walk near Tamworth on Saturday and a much longer walk over the forested hills west of Trentham on Sunday.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vBA67jgVfTJDXiYcA
Along with lots of other Old Duffers, I attended Dave and Jo’s wedding weekend at Coniston Coppermines. Poor weather did nothing to dampen spirits!
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With an empty weekend in my diary, I decided to tick off some of my closest unbagged Tumps in Staffordshire, walking from Cheadle on Saturday and Cauldon Lowe on Sunday.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/M7HMiR8GaUhhrsWV8
The Duffers convened in Wharfedale to celebrate Marianne’s 30th birthday, staying in a bunkhouse in Hubberholme. I enjoyed a long-ish walk on Bucken Pike and Great Whernside on Saturday, and a much shorter one on Cocklee Fell on Sunday morning.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/o9svkcoW36DBzEVA8
Alex P and I spent a long weekend backpacking on Dartmoor. Our four-day, 109km route from Okehampton took in many of the wilder parts of the moor and well-known tors, as well as the Duck’s Pool and Cranmere Pool letterbox memorials.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yDXxpGmn524Vypd39
Today’s post-work walk in the Peak District was in Monsal Dale.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MCPogmqCgxgPEFty7
With improving weather forecast, I headed to the far north of the Peak District to tick off my final three Derbyshire Tumps with two short walks near Glossop and a big loop north from Crowden.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/npnAbZktwTohv6Yw8
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.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/x1JBByHE5HZVhF6w7
My colleague Aditya and I went for another evening stroll in the Peak District, this time on the hillside above Carsington Water.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JvTprFVfaj7yMfmD9
We broke the drive home to explore Chartres and Rouen.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zhNiBqKjhAm1u4Hi6
For the last few days of the holiday we returned to France to explore some of the extinct volcanoes of the Massif Central.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/T4WkUMr8NZwgxaMz7
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.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JCEUa5UWWPfSuuRK8
