Just after Lammas our daughter Rachel took us on this delightful Wiltshire chalk Downs walk, with flowers you don’t get up north, and too many butterflies to identify for sure. The six mile walk starts at the car park by north Wiltshire Golf course and heads east along a sunken Roman road, then down Horsecombe […]
Blog Posts about Walking and the Outdoors
Donkey’s Ears, Shepherds Crag
Listed as a Very Difficult ie easy climb in my 1990 Borrowdale Guide or Severe if pitch 4 is avoided. Pitch 2 is not VD in my, admittedly elderly estimation, either the delicate slab or the gross and tight overhang between the Ears themselves, which I’m glad to report could not be done by my […]
Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge.
Why should you walk these Cheviot hills? Because they’re Nuttalls, they’re deserted, and the Breamish valley is worth a visit. I reckoned the shortest walk was from Ewartley Shank farm, or more accurately, as there is no parking there, from the cattle grid 1km before it. Take the grassy track near there towards Hogdon Law […]
The Cheviot round.
The classic round from the Harthope valley grass car park just before Langleeford. Of course this is to do the other two “Nuttalls” on the south side, as we had done the Cheviot as a deviation on the Pennine Way four years ago. Not a great idea to do it on the day of the […]
Eliminate A, Dow Crag
Voted one of Britain’s top 100 climbs, and done on about the first fine day in this Cumbrian summer. Used to go up after work, but now struggle up in the afternoon, returning today to Goat’s Water at about the same time we used to arrive on the way up. Harder than we thought when […]
Harter Fell, Eskdale.
A panoramic 7.5 mile circuit round and up the Fell. Start at the Forest Picnic site north of Birks and cross the Duddon by the bridge. Either turn L on the bridle to Birks, or carry on the track to above Birks. The “path” connecting the two on the map is very overgrown, for adventurers […]