northern pies

Met Office forecasts have been unusually consistent this week in nominating Thursday as the day when it wouldn’t rain. And it didn’t. In f...

Tree Ruined by Over-Exposure to Blue Stilton I don’t think this is particularly true, but several commentators have got quite animated abou...

Friday afternoon saw me slide over the Pennines to Glenridding to join the Fight Club Hikers Second Anniversary do in a frozen camping bar...

First of all, after much prevaricating and cancelling and moving of dates around , I eventually managed to meet up with Martin Rye in Butt...

As you can see, Bruno was delighted to find a patch of old snow on Blencathra. He ate quite a  bit of it and then started on the ice on a ...

Actually, it was quite near Ennerdale. But anyway – I’d set off to bag Swainson Knott and it’s two little satellite hills Ponsonby Fell a...