Thursday 15th September 2022
In another two-part write up, I’ll share my experience of the one walk I was most looking forward to in this week away – climbing Helvellyn via. the scramble of Striding Edge.
My morning began in the town of Glenridding, to the east of the mountains.
Continue reading “Helvellyn via. Striding Edge”Monday 20th June 2022
This was to be our final outing for this trip in the Scottish Highlands, ahead of a long journey home the next day. This Monday promised to offer the best weather of our long weekend and so we were bound for the higher ground. From Aviemore below, we drove up to the Cairn Gorm Base Station.
Continue reading “Fiacall Ridge and Ben Macdui”So far, we’d managed to explore a fair portion of the Peak District without attempting a single group scramble. In July 2018, we were all over it in Snowdonia… Up and down the Gylderau, Tryfan and we each survived the length of Crib Goch.
On what was set to be the hottest day of the month, we drove east towards the Derwent Valley with the intention of conquering one of the Peak District’s most infamous scrambles.
I thought I would spend some time looking towards outdoors-related events I have coming up for this year and share it all with you in this post.
Walks With Olly 