Today Ged and I drove to Dodgson Wood car park on the east side of Coniston Water to walk up to the Top O’Selside (Outlying Fell) via Low Parkamoor. It was windy today after the recent storms, so we wanted somewhere less exposed. I last did thi…

Today I drove with Ged via the Honister Pass to Buttermere. We would be walking up to Rannerdale Knotts. This is an easy walk and under five miles long. It would include the Rannerdale ridge and the shores of Crummock Water and Buttermere. The walk w…

Ged wanted to climb either Helvellyn or Halls Fell on Blencathra to celebrate his 80th birthday, but the forecasted wind and ice risk would be far too dangerous to attempt a walk somewhere where you could fall off. The Far Eastern Fells were going to…