Kinder Scout in low cloud
The forecast said cloud base 600 metres and it was not lying. We left Edale in bright, unhelpful sunshine and walked into grey about twenty minutes above Upper Booth.
Read more →The case for the worst weather
An unpopular position, stated plainly: the hills are better in bad weather.
Read more →Nine years of the same boots
They are Italian, they were expensive in 2017, and they have been resoled three times.
Read more →Marsden to Standedge, out and back
Not every walk needs a summit. This one is flat, it is eight kilometres there and back, and the whole thing runs beside a canal.
Read more →What a map does that a phone doesn't
I use the phone. Let's start there, because this is not an argument that technology has ruined navigation.
Read more →Starting this
I have kept walk notes for about eleven years. Paper notebooks first, then a notes app, then — briefly and regrettably — a social platform.
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