This morning I got up early to drive to Blea Tarn car park via Little Langdale. I usually go via Great Langdale, as Little Langdale is dreadful to drive through as it is single track and I always end up having to reverse several times. Thankfully I w…
Category Archives: Other Peaks
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Blea Tarn & Side Pike
30th October 2019Knock Murton and Cogra Moss
28th October 2019On Monday I drove with Ged via the Corney and Cold Fell roads to Ennerdale Bridge, turning right in Kirklands to the road that leads along the west face of Knock Murton. It was a beautiful blue sky day. We planned to walk up Knock Murton and do a cir…
Ditchling Beacon on the South Downs Way with Fr. John
23rd September 2019I took the train from Brighton to Hassocks and met up with Fr. John for a walk from his house up to Ditchling Beacon on the South Downs. Another excellent day! Jo. …
Eastbourne to Cuckmere Haven
21st September 2019A walk from Eastbourne Pier via Beachy Head, Belle Tout Lighthouse, Birling Gap and The Seven Sisters to Cuckmere Haven. I had walked the Seven Sisters six years ago with Fr. John, but I fancied doing them again and extending the walk to include a co…
High Cup Nick
3rd July 2019On Wednesday Ged and I drove to Dufton to walk to High Cup Nick via the Pennine Way. A gentle there and back walk of 6.5 miles. There are circular walks, but I was looking to keep the distance to a minimum. The weather was glorious! The walk, which i…
Cross Fell
10th June 2019On Monday myself, Brendan and son, Tom, did a circular walk up to Cross Fell, the highest point of the Pennines. We parked in Kirkland, by the church. It was to be a ten mile walk. An easy enough walk, but a bit boggy in places. Best not to do it, li…
Devil’s Dyke to Truleigh Hill with Fr. John
25th September 2017On the Monday I took the ten minute train journey from Brighton Station to Hassocks, where Fr. John lives. It was raining as I walked to the station, but it had stopped by the time I reached Hassocks. John collected me from the station. We stopped of…
Arthur’s Seat Walk, Edinburgh
21st January 2017We arrived on our four day trip to Edinburgh in blue skies and sunshine. We had come to view the Turner paintings in the Scottish National Gallery, which are only on view in January due to the low light levels. As it was such a nice day, after droppi…
Dent Fell from Cleator Moor
27th September 2016On Tuesday afternoon I was ringing at St. John’s, Cleator Moor. So after ringing I thought I would take the opportunity to climb up to Dent summit, which I had never done before. The weather was poor in the morning, but it was due to improve, b…
A walk up Carran from the cottage.
24th August 2015We have not climbed up Carran (2000ft) for a couple of years, so we decide to climb it via a different route and take in the summit of Knockantooreen too. It is a walk we can do from the cottage, as Carran is the mountain that looms over us. The walk…
Mount Brandon, County Kerry 2014
1st September 2014It had rained for most of the first week we were in Kerry, so on the first day when it was not going to rain and the clouds were above the summits, we drove to the Dingle Peninsula to climb Mount Brandon (3127ft), the highest mountain in Ireland outs…
Seven Sisters via the South Downs Way with Fr. John.
23rd September 2013Brendan and I went down to Brighton for the Labour Party Conference. We stayed with designer and author Joanna Osborne and her husband, composer and author Orlando Gough and their fine lurcher, Nell. Their house on Sillwood Road used to be a Theatric…
Torc Mountain in County Kerry, Ireland
2nd August 2013The weather has not been kind enough to go over to Dingle to climb Mount Brandon. So we do a mountain that is smaller and nearer. Torc Mountain is near Muckross, Killarney. It is 1,775ft high. It is a there and back walk of about 5 miles. A good litt…
Dalton Crags, Boxing Day 2012
26th December 2012For our annual Boxing Day family and friends walk, we all met up at Hutton Roof Crags Quarry car park, near Burton in Kendal, to climb Dalton Crags. An excellent, little two hour walk to work off the calories of Christmas Day! (Calories all put back…
Mount Snowdon
19th January 2012On Tuesday morning after an early breakfast we headed for Llanberis to climb Mount Snowdon (3560ft) via the Llanberis path, a walk of nine miles. On the way we stopped at Llyn Gwynant to take some photos across the lake. It was very still, but the mi…
Warton Crags, Boxing Day 2011
26th December 2011It is that time of the year again! An excellent day! …
Pilgrimage Walk from Kilgarvan to Gougane Barra
25th September 2011Brendan and I flew to Cork in Ireland last Friday to take part in the annual Gougane Sunday Pilgrimage Walk from Kilgarvan in County Kerry across the mountains to Gougane Barra in County Cork, then to the St Finbarr’s church on the lake for a M…
Gap of Dunloe and Purple Mountain, Ireland.
12th July 2011The weather was perfect today so we headed off early via Moll`s Gap and the Lakes of Killarney to walk the Gap of Dunloe up to Purple Mountain (2730ft), over An Chathair and Tomies Mountain and back to Kate Kearney`s Cottage. A circular walk of about…
Croaghmore on Great Blasket, Ireland
10th July 2011After an Irish Breakfast at the B&B we headed along the Dingle coast line to Dunquin and the small ferry boat over to Great Blasket, to climb Croaghmore on the largest of the Blasket Islands. Great Blasket was once inhabited by a Gaelic-speaking…
Mount Brandon, Ireland
7th July 2011We drove to the Dingle Peninsula to climb Mount Brandon (3127ft), the highest mountain in Ireland outside of the Macgillycuddy Reeks. Named after St. Brendan. We took the Pilgrimage route called the Saint`s Road which goes up from the west. Brendan h…
Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s Highest Mountain
14th August 2008Friday was one of the few decent days, it rained a lot over the two weeks and the mist was down over the Reeks on most days . We set off from the cottage at 7.50am and picked Steve up at eight (Brendan`s second cousin who has the farm two miles down…
Crete: Samaria Gorge Walk
10th June 2008The last time we visited Crete we walked the Samaria Gorge which we thoroughly enjoyed so this time we did it again with Tom. The Gorge is the longest in europe at 18km (11 miles) long. It is formed by a river flowing between Mount Volakias to the we…
Camping on Carran Summit, Ireland
8th August 2007Our cottage at Knockanuha is 800ft up Carran. We often take a walk up, but it is pathless and not that easy. There was actually disbelief from many of the local farmers that I`d done this. They thought it would be too scarey up there for a woman on h…