As my birthday treat we would be staying in the Boat House of the Langdale Chase Hotel. A base for a couple of walks and an ideal setting to take a few sunset/sunrise photos over Windermere. Our first walk was from Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre up…

A blue sky day with snow! I picked up Ged from Urswick, and drove towards Keswick. I’d already decided we were going up High Rigg. It is only 1,165ft high, but the views out to surrounding fells are excellent, and it is on the main road, so no…

The following blog shows the same walk on two consecutive days, one in low cloud, one in sunshine and blue skies. Naturally most of the photos come from the second day. I had been in Ulverston in the morning, for brass band practice, so I was already…

A short morning walk up to Raven Scar on Staveley Fell. The walk took two hours and was three miles. A nice, short, easy walk to start the year! Somewhere neither of us had been to before. Jo.      …