It's funny how, having done a blog on peakbagging, a number of related commentaries appear. Now we have this. I think I need to be shocked and upset at the "accolade". Does this make me "dull" too? Myrddyn Phillips takes it all in remarkably good stead. But I think that it is all remarkably Continue Reading
Confessions of a peakbagger – further postscript
No sooner had I published my blog on this subject than the BBC put the following on its website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34196204 The "disease" is clearly widespread! Continue Reading
Confessions of a peakbagger – a recent trip to Europe
Some people collect stamps and coins; others like to visit every football stadium in the country; yet others will want to run in marathons all around the world. Then there is trainspotting (we will quickly move on from that one) But what they all have in common is that they have their Continue Reading
Two days in Moidart
13th/14th June 2015 Normally in any given year I try to visit Scotland five or six times. So far this year I have been north of the border just once. I had had my eye out on a trip for a number of weeks, but the weather forecasts were insufficiently promising. However, during the week of 8th Continue Reading
And again..!
The weather forecast looked OK, so I made a last minute decision to go around the Yorkshire 3 Peaks for the second time in 5 days yesterday. Some may question this behaviour as obsessive, or compulsive. They may be right! I did the traditional round - in other words that starting at Horton in Continue Reading