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#32 – Fountains Fell

Posted on 27/06/2011 by Paul Shorrock

 Went up Fountains Fell – didn’t see one fountain! In fact, there aren’t any fountains – The mountain is named after Fountains Abbey near Ripon.  The abbey owned quite a bit of land in this area and Fountains Fell and … Continue reading →

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#31 – The Other Borrowdale

Posted on 20/06/2011 by Paul Shorrock

 We went walking in Borrowdale last week in good weather, and saw only two people all day…What?!! I should add that it was “The Other Borrowdale”, otherwise known as Westmorland Borrowdale.  The Cumberland Borrowdale, near Keswick, is the one that … Continue reading →

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#27 – At last! The real Whernside!! – (Whernside and Ingleborough – two out of the Yorkshire Three Peaks)

Posted on 22/05/2011 by Paul Shorrock

The Yorkshire Three Peaks (Y3P) are like old friends.  I’ve known them for years, since I started hill walking, in fact.  Like old friends, sometimes a few years will go by without any contact, then you meet up again and … Continue reading →

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#26 – A short walk in the Carneddau (Part 3)

Posted on 16/05/2011 by Paul Shorrock

 Day 3 of the trip dawned fine and sunny, unlike the day before.  The previous two days had given us great walking, but hadn’t exactly been true to the title “A short walk in the Carneddau” – In fact, Day … Continue reading →

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#25 – A short walk in the Carneddau (Part 2)

Posted on 09/05/2011 by Paul Shorrock

So, Day 1 had started the weekend well.   However, Day 2 was to prove more challenging…. .  Sometimes I can guess what the weather will be before drawing back the curtains of the camper.  The sun of the previous day … Continue reading →

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#24 – A short walk in the Carneddau (Part 1)

Posted on 02/05/2011 by Paul Shorrock

I had a booking for two customers over Easter weekend.  The brief was simple enough – three days walking on interesting hills in Snowdonia BUT away from crowds.  The venue also had to be handy for a railway station.  Having … Continue reading →

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#22 – Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) – A mountain for all

Posted on 18/04/2011 by Paul Shorrock

 I can still remember the first time I saw Snowdon (or to use the correct Welsh name, Yr Wyddfa).  I was eighteen and had started hill-walking about 1½ years earlier.  After a three-hour drive, we finally arrived at the campsite … Continue reading →

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#21 – If at first you don’t succeed… The Nantlle Ridge

Posted on 11/04/2011 by Paul Shorrock

My last trip to Snowdonia had been on 3rd December (blog #3).  I had intended to walk the east section of the Nantlle Ridge as part of the research for the Discovery Walking Guides Snowdonia project.  I already had a … Continue reading →

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#20 – From one extreme to the other … (a tale of two walks)

Posted on 04/04/2011 by Paul Shorrock

The main aim for the weekend was to get out in the camper with the dog, to see if there were going to be any problems with an energetic Border Collie cooped up in a van – we have a … Continue reading →

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#15 – “…feeling a bit peaky..”

Posted on 28/02/2011 by Paul Shorrock

The peaks in this case being three in number.  Last weeks post on Pen y Ghent brought back memories of the previous year, when I spent four months researching for a guidebook on the Three Peaks Challenge – That’s the … Continue reading →

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