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Showing posts with label Lake District. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake District. Show all posts
Monday, 14 November 2022

Backpacking In The Lake District: A High-Level Borrowdale Circuit

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Sunset, Grey Knotts As a youngster the Lake District was a place of magic for me long before I ever went there. Through Arthur Ransome’s S...
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Sunday, 18 July 2021

Backpacking Borrowdale feature in Lakeland Walker

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  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...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Camping in the Lake District in the long hot summer of 1976

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In Hollow Stones As the rain continues to beat down outside I've been sorting through more old photos and came across some from a very...
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Thursday, 17 May 2018

A Trip to Glenridding: John Muir Trust AGM/Members Gathering, a short cruise on Ullswater, Aira Force

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View over Ullswater to Birks Last weekend I was in Glenridding in the Lake District for a very enjoyable and productive time at the J...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017

The Thirlmere Zipwires - just what are National Parks for?

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Zipwires over Thirlmere in the Lake District? When I first heard about this proposal I was taken aback. Surely no-one could propose such a t...
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Friday, 20 October 2017

Lake District rain and wind, a ruined priory, and Hadrian's Wall: a weekend with the OWPG

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On Causey Pike in the rain and wind Rain hammering down. Well, it was the Lake District. In October. The Outdoor Writers and Photog...