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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/GadDKJiN2SkzBVue6
Ruth and I spent ten days in the USA in the run up to Emily and Chris’ wedding in North Carolina. We started with a couple of nights in Washington DC, where Emily and Chris met us to show us the sights around the Tidal Basin (particularly spectacular with the cherry trees in full bloom) and National Mall.
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Tom and Helen hosted a Duffers’ weekend in Warwickshire, with a visit to Stratford to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RST on Saturday, and a walk from Alcester on Sunday.
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I visited Ian and Emma in Chester-le-Street for the weekend. On the Saturday, we headed into Northumberland for a drizzly walk on Tosson Hill and Simonside. On the Sunday morning, we opted for a shorter stroll from ‘home’ onto Waldridge Fell. I broke the journey home with a walk in the East Yorkshire Wolds to tick off another Marilyn.
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For this year’s Duffers’ New Year trip we returned to the Post House in Kingussie, where we had previously stayed three years ago. We managed a few good walks in the Drumochter Hills and Monadhliath despite the usual damp, windy weather!
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