Backpacker’s Britain: walking guides for people who like it tough

June 21, 2011 Reviews and tributes abergwesyn hills, backpacking, book reviews, britain, cicerone guides, dehydration, exhaustion, glen shiel, graham uney, hill walking, hypothermia, knoydart, off piste walking, rhinogs, scotland, skiddaw, wales, walking guides, wild camping 0 Comment

Backpacker’s Britain: walking guides for people who like it tough

I’d like to pay tribute to a man called Graham Uney. I’ve never met him and I probably never will, but thanks to his Backpacker’s Britain walking guides I’ve had many an enjoyable weekend in the UK’s hills, in places

In praise of Cumbria’s northern fells

May 5, 2011 Trip reports britain, camping, carrock fell, cumbria, fairfield, great dodd, helvellyn, hill walking, lake district, langdale, navigation, pennines, scafell pike, skiddaw, st sunday crag, striding edge, stybarrow dodd, wild camping, wilderness 5 Comments

In praise of Cumbria’s northern fells

I’m going to say something that I don’t believe many people say: some of my favourite hills in the English Lake District are the rolling grassy bogland hillsides of its northern fells. There are some impressive looking mountains in the