Wireless Adventure
Dear Mr Turner, Re: Your plans to install 8 separate zip wires across Thirlmere, in the Lake District. This is published as an open letter. “Come take a walk with […]
Category Archives: Lake District
Cicerone Press open day
As I drove through Kendal yesterday towards Murley Moss, there was no doubt that it was the mountain festival weekend. The uniform of festival attendees was evident walking down every […]
OWPG Best Guidebook award 2017
I’m back from the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild (OWPG) annual AGM weekend. To be fair I didn’t have to travel too far, as it was just up the road […]
Lake District book out!
This week my latest mountain running guidebook, “Trail and Fell Running in the Lake District” was published by Cicerone Press. This project has taken years to come together, and countless days out […]
Running off grid
It is purely coincidence that it’s New Years Eve when I happen to post this, but there’ll surely be more than a few people who drink a little too much tonight, […]
Tour de Helvellyn
A few minutes on the internet, and I came up with three answers about the distance; 38 miles, 40 miles and 42 miles. Looking for the elevation gain produced a […]
Lakes in a Day
To live somewhere, yet to learn to see it in a totally new light, is something you can’t achieve every weekend. Last Saturday I ran the first edition of the […]
Grizedale Ultra 26
Last weekend, I ran the Grizedale Ultra 26 race, the first in a new series of ‘short’ ultra marathons designed to help people training for 100 mile races like the […]
Lakes Fell Running
I’ve been based in the Lake District for a few weeks now, and the running training is going well. The photo above was taken running the Fairfield horseshoe last weekend, […]
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