Spring arrived eventually this week up north, the Lakes would be heaving, so we chose an isolated North Pennine walk for the weekend. Ten miles plus of moorland walking, with only a small group of walkers seen at a summit, doing a separate route, to interupt complete loneliness. This is walk 9.8 in
This lovely 8 mile walk is best done in early to mid-June when the Muker meadows, and to a lesser extent the Ivelet to Muker meadows, are full of wildflowers. Starting in Muker, find the path through the village which leads onto the meadows. It is not signed so be careful. Go through the delightful
A glorious friday in early June, the last weekday of the Whitsun holidays. I wanted to see what Piers Gill was like, as my late mother told me once that she had been cajoled by my father to take me and my one older and one younger brothers (aged maybe 3 to 7) up the Pike, but went wrong in bad