v-g Backpacking in Britain BlogA short winter 2-day circuit of Moel Hebog and the hills and cwms to the south, including a first ascent of the 553m Moel-ddu, a Marilyn/Dewey top that has eluded us twice before. The outward line is the popular north-eastern approach from Beddgelert, our first ascent via this path, and the return is via Cwm […]
Stats table 2010
Miles
Backpacks
Days
Total
442m
14
42
Joint
96m
4
13
Solo
346m
10
29
A belated Happy New Year to all readers and best wishes for 2011, especially those fellow bloggers who have posted about life changes in difficult economic times, I hope events turn out favourably.
14 backpacks and 42 days trekking in 2010 with a tent isn’t bad, considering that we ground to a halt in […]
Just the annual post to wish all readers good fortune for the Christmas period and seriously good backpacking for 2011.
Not much backpacking here for a while, we are waiting for the travel situation to improve - I’m not as brave as some who have made it out to the snowy mountains recently - kudos to […]
The first significant snow of the season has arrived and thoughts once again turn to traction control. In winter snow and ice we never attempt anything technically difficult, and in recent seasons we have carried - but seldom worn - our Kahtoola aluminium flexible crampons which fit almost any footwear. The aluminiums are a good […]
A 2-day circuit of the Southern Carneddau mountains that form the northern side of the Ogwen valley between Ogwen and Capel Curig.
The route along the valley joining the two ends follows Penrhyn’s old road, now a pleasant track shadowing the Afon Llugwy below the mountains on the southern side. By tackling this first on the […]
A 4-day linear traverse of the western Lake District fells, starting and ending at Silecroft and St. Bees rail stations.
Overshadowing Silecroft, Black Combe is almost always tackled in isolation as a day walk, but from the inner southerly fells we have often seen it as a natural approach that would form an unusual and […]
A linear 3-day backpack of the eastern Glenkens range of hills in the Southern Uplands, starting from the Green Well of Scotland north of Carsphairn village and ending at St. John’s Town of Dalry.
The route follows the Water of Deugh to the foot of Willieanna to ascend via Dunool and Black Shoulder to Cairnsmore of […]
A fine linear traverse of the mountains on the west side of the Conwy valley, starting and finishing at Blaenau Ffestiniog and Conwy rail stations.
The route follows the Moelwyns / Ysgafell Wen range to Moel Siabod and crosses via Capel Curig to the eastern Carneddau at Llyn Cowlyd. The excellent SE ridge is ascended to […]
I’d toyed with the idea of a buff years ago and I began to recall my original thoughts on the standard one: the appeal resurfaced but for protective summer use the advantage of a peak would be lost. Then I discovered the Visor Buff: a standard buff with a built-in neoprene peak.
An article in TGO […]
Apologies to addicts of GPS/PDA/Smartphone mapping if this is obvious or old hat, but I was able to help a correspondent of mine recently in a quite unexpected way (I don’t own any GPS or mobile mapping devices at all but I’m really into mapping on a PC). It may be interesting to others in […]
