Backpacking Borrowdale feature in Lakeland Walker

 

For the first time I have a feature in Lakeland Walker magazine. Earlier in the year editor John Manning asked me to write a piece for the Great Lakeland Walks series, which is about personal accounts of walks of discovery, and this has now appeared in the July/August issue. 

In the piece I describe the backpacking trips on the fells round Borrowdale I made with Terry Abraham when we were filming the Backpacking in the Lake District DVD and talk about my discovery of the Lakes and how my first backpacking trips took place there. A few of the illustrations were taken on one of those early trips in the hot summer of 1976. 

Backpacking in the Lake District DVD: Good Viewing for the Summer

Anyone planning a backpacking trip this summer might well find the DVD I made with Terry Abraham last summer useful, especially if you're not very experienced (those who are may well enjoy it for different reasons). The DVD features Terry's superb landscape videography as well as choosing camp sites, tent pitching, gear, route choice and more.

The DVD is available from Striding Edge.

Campsite in the Lakes during the making of the DVD