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Cold Fell and Bee-eaters, grand day out.
If there exists a reader of these blogs apart from the two I know, I would like to apologise for the absence of a decent walk since May (2015), as the Pennine Way crippled my knee and I am limited to short hobbles. Hearing about the exotic bee-eater birds at Gelt Sand Quarry near Brampton, Cumbria,
An Upper Swaledale round from Muker
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
Scafell Pike from Wasdale, without the crowds. (Mostly.)
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