I have recently concentrated my blogs on the V7S or my foreign climbs. This one is a little different. I have blogged about Marilyns before - see here and here for example. The objective for this trip was to visit the Marilyn high points of two islands off the west coast of Scotland. I had Continue Reading
Hillwalking on the Isle of Man – A Tale of Three Legs
OK, having hopefully got your attention by the corny title to this blog, I will continue in the same vein and exploit punning to the manximum. The Isle of Man is a place that I have wanted to visit for a while. It is a place where TT doesn’t mean being abstemious, but rather throbbing Continue Reading
Entering the Marilyn Hall of Fame
Two years ago, back in October 2018 I wrote a blog about completing the English Marilyns. You can find it here. By way of reminder, Marilyns are hills and mountains in the British Isles that have a prominence of at least 150m. There are 1557 of them in Britain of which 175 are in Continue Reading
Completing the English Marilyns
After my Antipodean adventures, it was time to settle back into UK hillwalking. One of my longer term objectives is to climb 600 Marilyns. There are 1557 Marilyns in Great Britain. Of that number 175 are in England. So completing the English Marilyns seemed to be a reasonable Continue Reading
A night to remember
Been one tough weekDead on my feetBut I've made plans for tonightWhen I'm feeling blueKnow just what to doAnd how to make it rightSeems like this foreverGonna have myself a night to remember* And so it was a couple of weeks ago I decided that for my 17th (yes 17th) time around the Yorkshire 3 Continue Reading