Walks in the United States including the Coastal Redwoods and the Grand Canyon. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
USA Walks and Trails
The Sandstone Trail
The Sandstone Trail is a thirty four mile footpath that runs down the centre of the county of Cheshire in England. Following the mid Cheshire Sandstone Ridge it offers a variety of walking through forests, across farmland and along sandstone escarpments that give great views across the Cheshire plain into North Wales. It can be walked in a day as an endurance challenge, or over a more leisurely two or three days. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
Book Three The Central Fells
All the hills of the Central Fells listed in height order with the eleven walks that took me over them and interactive map showing hill location and route. Click on the hill or the walk to read the post. Scroll down to use the interactive map.
- A Frosty Walk up Walla Crag and Bleaberry Fell (10,25)
- Four Wainwright’s from Thirlmere Dam ( 9,16,18,19 )
- A Walk up High Rigg from Bridge End (26)
- Tarn Crag and Easedale Tarn from Grasmere ( 13 )
- Four Wainwright’s from Grasmere ( 12,15,21,23 )
- Great Crag and Grange Fell from Rosthwaite ( 20,22 )
- Silver How and Loughrigg Fell in the sunshine from Grasmere ( 24,27 )
- A Walk up Eagle Crag and Sergeant’s Crag ( 11,17 )
- A Boggy Walk up Ullscarf from Thirlmere ( 4 )
- The Langdale Pikes ( 3,6,7,8 )
- An Outer Langdale Round ( 1,2,5,14 )
The Langdale Pikes
Just as autumn seemed to have arrived, summer sunshine and warmth has returned for one last hurrah and I’m fortunate to be in Great Langdale to enjoy it. The Langdale Pikes are an iconic group of hills whose relative accessibility, moderate height and interesting routes have made them emblematic of all that is attractive about the English Lake District. From the moment their shapely and unique outline is glimpsed across Windermere on the road to Ambleside you know you have entered into the heart of Lakeland with its mountains, lakes and rivers. It’s time to relax, breathe out, and for a while leave your workaday stresses behind and allow your heart to be stirred in anticipation of adventures that lie ahead. And today, in the sunshine, I’m walking the Langdale Pikes.
A walk up Ullscarf from Thirlmere
My last visit to Ullscarf was thwarted when the clouds which had been hovering above it all day decided to lower onto the summit plateau just as I reached it. As I have a rule that I will be able to see the view from each top on my journey through the Wainwright’s this unfortunately meant a return visit. At least going up again gives me a chance to try a different route and today I’ll be ascending via Harrop Tarn and returning down the Wythburn valley which means I don’t have to walk back on myself.
Book One The Eastern Fells
All the hills of the Eastern Fells listed in height order with the sixteen walks that took me over them and interactive map showing hill location and route. Click on the hill or the walk to read the post. Scroll down to use the interactive map.
- A January Mell Fell Round (27,30)
- A Winters Walk up Hart Side (16)
- A Walk up Glenridding Dodd and Sheffield Pike from Glenridding (20,34)
- Walthwaite to Glenridding via Clough Head and the Dodds (8,9,13,18)
- Gowbarrow Fell and Aira Force Circular (32)
- St Sunday Crag via Arnison Crag and Birks (10,24,35)
- A Walk up Seat Sandal from Grasmere (17)
- The Helvellyn Ridge, Dollywaggon Pike to Raise (1,2,4,6,7)
- Hartsop above How, the Priests Hole and Dovedale (26)
- High Hartsop Dodd and Little Hart Crag in the snow (23,28)
- Red Screes and Middle Dodd with ice and inversions (14,22)
- A Walk up Stone Arthur (31)
- The Pikes and Dove Crag from Ambleside (12,21,29)
- Hart Crag and Fairfield, up Dovedale, down Deepdale (5,11)
- Great Rigg, Heron Pike and Nab Scar taking Alcock Tarn (15,25,33)
- Birkhouse Moor and Catstyecam from Glenridding (3,19)
A walk to Glenashdale Falls, Isle of Arran
The Isle of Arran is often referred to as ‘Scotland in Miniature’ because the north of the island is mountainous whereas the south is more pastoral. We’ve brought the van over from Ardrossan and are enjoying a mini road trip around the island, mini because Arran is only twenty miles long and nine miles wide. But what it lacks in acreage it more than makes up for in natural scenery and human history with an abundance of beaches, waterfalls and wildlife, castles, distillery’s and ancient monuments.
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A walk along the Bisse du Torrent Neuf, Switzerland
The ‘Bisses’ of the Valais region of Switzerland are long irrigation channels, many of them hundreds of years old, built to channel water from high mountain streams down to pasture land in the valleys below. Carved out from rock along the valley sides many of them follow a precipitous route with dizzying drops below and vertical cliffs above. The Bisse du Torrent Neuf in the central Valais dates back to the 15th century. Thankfully it’s been restored since and today it offers a spectacular out and back walk along the cliff edges, past sheer rock faces and over wobbly suspension bridges.
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A walk up Eagle Crag and Sergeant’s Crag
It’s the second time I’ve stopped at Chapel House Farm campsite in the last few weeks and the second time I find myself walking towards Stonethwaite looking to climb two Wainwright’s. Last time I was on my to Great Crag and Grange Fell. Today I’m looking towards Eagle Crag which rises up rather dauntingly from the valley floor and peeking out from behind it, Sergeant’s Crag.
Silver How and Loughrigg Fell from Grasmere Village
It’s summer, or at least that brief moment in time that passes for summer these days. It’s also a Sunday on one of the hottest days of the year so I know today’s walk up Silver How and Loughrigg Fell, two of the lower lying and popular fells around Grasmere is likely to be a busy one.
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