Myself and Pete from work traveled to Gt Langdale to walk the Crinkles and Blisco, it was a fantastic day in the hills as fresh snow covered the tops and low temperatures and no wind made the views incredible. We covered 9 miles it was hard going as the snow at times was over a metre deep. The pic on the ice is the 3 of us sitting on one of the 3 tarns at the base of Bowfells last climb. Pike of Blisco and Scafells are pictured and me with Gt Langdale in the background.

Me and Vikki climbed Gummers How on Saturday it is a nice steady climb and we got throught the clouds to a wonderfull scene of all the mountain peaks of the lakes poking through. It was cold and snowy but well wort the effort.

Grizedale forest

Today I walked through Grizedale I stayed low because the weather was blustery and showery. Allthough i made it up to carron crag probably about 1000ft. It was a pleasent walk of about 10 miles I followed the green markers from the visitors centre. The pics are of Carron crag, a sunburst down the grizedale valley and a couple in the Forest where it was dry and a lot warmer than Carron Crag!!

p.s Wish you were here Eggy (stretch that back out mate it must be them Essex hills that done it)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great gable

Today 18th November I walked up Gt Gable, I headed up the path to the west of the mountain and then headed east at 2000ft the cloud rolled in as you can see from the summit pic of Alf on the way down it started to break and you can just make out Wast Water. The pic of me has the Ennerdale Valley and Haystacks and then some evening pics of the valley and Gt Gable.

12th November I climbed a mountain near Ambleside called Red Screes the weather was great today and the views were amazing especially off the summit. On the picture you can see the Kirkstone Pass inn one of the highest pubs in England. The picture of me on the summit has Yoke and ill bell of the Kentmere Horseshoe in the background. There is also a pic down to Brothers water and a great pic of Hellvelyn and Striding Edge with some snow on the top. I desended down the Scandale Pass to Ambleside a nice walk with red screes on my left and high and low pike to my right of the Fairfield Horseshoe. The walk was approx 9 miles and took 4 hours in total.

Today Nov 5th was the day America got its first black president and I more importantly climbed Tarn Crag near Grasmere. Again it was a great day with blue skies all the way round, the pic on the summit cairn is me and alf on tarn crag, looking down on the larger tarn is Easedale tarn and the smaller is Coledale Tarn. Iam crossing the stream just below Easedale, the walk was 6 miles and it took me 3.5 hours as I took my time and strolled around the route. A great strole around the Grasmere hills hopefully i will be back next week.

On the 3rd November I walked up Pike of Blisco in Langdale it was a great few hours as the weather was perfect with views allover the Lakedistrict. The picture of the car has crinkle crags and bowfell in the background and the other pics has me and alfie on the summit cairn and the langdale pikes in the distance.

20th of September had me around Little Langdale, I havent updated a blog for ages mainly because ive been running without a camera. So on this day I started in Little Langdale and headed up Wetherlam edge, Swirl How was next via the prison band and then on to Great Carrs the pic of me is on top of Great Carrs at a memorial for service men who died in 1945 when there plane crashed into the mountain. The summit pic is Swirl How and the pic of me pointing is showing some of the route. It took me about 3 hours to do the round of about 8 miles a great day with fantastic views. The other pic of me is sat at Blind tarn in the Coniston Fells the day after Little Langdale I walked up the Walna Scarr road to Buck Pike then I descended to Blind Tarn.

Helm Crag, Grasmere

On the 22nd July our good friends Ian, Debbie, Ash and Kay made the long journey to Cumbria to visit us and explore the Lakes. They had great weather and on the wednesday suceeded in climbing Helm Crag or also known as the Lion and The Lamb near Grasmere. The bottom half is very steep and with the hot temperatures made it extremely hard going!! We all made the top as the photo proves. The photo with Ian and Debbie has the Easedale valley in the background and the photo with us trudging up the hill shows Grasmere Lake in the distance. We had a brilliant few days exploring the Lakes made even better with great friends, please come up again soon we miss you.xx (what climbing Helm Crag who would of thought it)??

I finally made it up Scafell Pike today via the corridor route, a really mountainous route with some of the most stunning views in the lakes of Scafell, Great Gable and Wasdale. I was running again today and i reached the top in 1.5hrs, it was warm and the many mountain streams were great for the thirst. Alfie is seen posing as the highest dog in England, the picture of me is with Great Gable behind and the pic above is looking down the route to Styhead tarn.

Wetherlam on the Coniston Fells was the next mountain on the list with my friend martin. We started in Tilberthwaite and assended up wetherlam edge over the top and then down by steel edge. Great views are had here of the Langdale valley and Coniston Fells. It took us about 3 hours not bad for an evenings stroll!!