Introduction Having had to cancel my planned trip to Provence in September to cycle up Mont Ventoux I was lucky to find an AirBnB with a short week’s availability in Penruddock, near Carlisle. It’s a good base for tackling Wainwright’s … Continue reading →
Scotland, August 2020 It was a while ago that I decided to take a few days to revive my flagging Munro-bagging efforts – it had been 11 years since I last stood on a Munro summit. I needed to be … Continue reading →
Finishing Wainwright’s Northern Fells Avid readers of this blog will have noticed that I haven’t posted anything here for a while. The middle part of the year has been a specially difficult time for me and I’m only just starting … Continue reading →
23 September 2015 On a drizzly afternoon in Keswick I took the opportunity to grab another Wainwright, Bleaberry Fell. Leaving the town by St John’s Street, Ambleside Road and Springs Road I passed by Springs Farm where my friend Steve … Continue reading →
Perhaps it’s the black cover on the book, or maybe the warnings about how lonely and unfrequented they are, that have always made me feel a bit wary of Wainwright’s Northern Fells. But each time I’ve been in Keswick over … Continue reading →
Local information for Vallouise, Ailefroide, les Vigneaux Overview The Écrins region and National Park lies to the south-east of Grenoble in the département of Hautes-Alpes. Two main valleys cut into the massif. The Vénéon, in which la Bérade is the … Continue reading →
You can see larger versions of the pictures on this page in the Slideshow. Refuge du Sélé The refuge The refuge is a curious warehouse-like structure perched on a bit of levelled ground 50 metres or so above the valley … Continue reading →
If you’ve reached this page with a search engine and don’t want to read through all the detail, please go to the brief report in the "Logbook", which also has photos. Introduction This was going to be an important trip … Continue reading →
On this page is my brief report with the basic facts of the trip and most of the pictures. The Refuges and Huts page has information about the four huts I stayed in or visited. Local Info is just that. … Continue reading →