With May’s 25 miles-sponsored walk just three months away it’s time to get moving and preparing for said event and even though I have been going to the gym (not as regularly as I should) the point has been reached … Continue reading
Saturday August the 18th this year marked the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials. To commemorate this dark time in Lancashire’s history there was a world-record-breaking gathering of Witches and two sponsored walks featuring Pendle Hill in aid of … Continue reading
The sun was out and the sky was bluer than even I had wished, so it was off to the village of Barley on Saturday morning for a first ascension of the infamous “steps” since 2010. The reason why I … Continue reading
…The Three Peaks…of Yorkshire! {YES! Again!} It’s no secret of my willingness to tackle Ribblesdale’s arduous and infamous twenty five (or thereabouts) mile and three peak challenge over the mountains of Pen-Y-Ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside (in ascending order of height). … Continue reading
Who would have believed that after my banging on relentlessly about doing the “Yorkshire Three Peaks” since September 2009 that it would be so long after doing the event before I wrote some kind of report on it? The perceptive … Continue reading
Well, it’s been a while since I last did any blogs on here and it’s been longer still since I did any hill walking. The problem is that when you set yourself a challenge like doing the Yorkshire three peaks, … Continue reading
So, after successfully completing all three of the Three Peaks of Yorkshire, one per day, one in June, another in July and the final one in August, I pined away like someone lovestruck for another chance to be amongst the … Continue reading
Personally I would prefer to refer to the event as the “Three Peaks of Ribblesdale” but I am in the minority there. Ever since Dave Hill of the band A-Pencil showed me an Ordnance Survey map featuring Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and … Continue reading
The challenge originated many years ago, to walk from Settle to Chapel le Dale via Pen-y-Ghent and Ingleborough. A few decades later had seen the original challenge morph into the more usual route that we observe today that starts at … Continue reading