For a few hours three weeks ago I’d completed the Far Eastern Fells. Then I hadn’t, missing the summit of Sour Howes. Today was a revenge mission, a walk with Tracy to bag Sour Howes and reclaim the completed badge. On a sunny August Bank Holiday Monday we had a […]
Wainwrights The Final Countdown
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Today I’m hoping to be a teenager again. If it doesn’t go to plan I’ll be 21. I’m not really getting any younger but the number of Wainwrights left to bag is decreasing. Five new ones today (hopefully seven if the weather is OK). I’ve asked John to come along […]
Adrian is moonlighting as a bricklayers mate and hasn’t been out running as much as he would like. His extension is allegedly coming along nicely though. I decide to show him Styhead and a nice climb to Scafell Pike with three new Wainwrights in it. If we can get round […]
Scott is available to come for a run which obviously means the weather forecast is disappointing. High chances of rain most of the day accompanied by low visibility. We decide to try the Far Eastern Fells which seems to have a greater chance of fine weather. I’ve got 4 left […]
A July weekend in Ulverston with a disappointing weather forecast left me with a conundrum. Try a long run in the rain and clag and risk getting lost or choose shorter options with guaranteed success. With 9 months left in this challenge I chose certainty over adventure. Coniston Fells Saturday […]
Fairfield Horseshoe is one of the fabled circular routes in the Lake District. Including a detour to Stone Arthur I’m expecting to climb 9 Wainwrights today. Five of those will be new and help reduce my countdown to under 40. My countdown had been slowed by injury and supporting rounds […]
Scott had been looking forward to a day on the fells, escaping from Stanley and enjoying somewhere new to run. Adrian was hoping to tick off a few more hills. Neither made it to the start line through illness so I’m on my own. Adrian wanted to do Kentmere so […]
Fifty Wainwrights to go and fifty one weekends to bag them before my next birthday. Sounds easy but lets find out how difficult it is. In some places I’ve got a loop I can do to bag new tops in other places it is a pair or an single outlying […]