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Photos of the moon
The 21st January was a ‘super’ and blood’ moon, I went outside where it was −33 °C to take a few photos.
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Wasdale Circuits – Yewbarrow and Mosedale Horseshoe
Wasdale is a nice part of the Lake District to walk in and especially in early spring quiet. This walk was a circular route around Mosedale and included going over Yewbarrow. I would recommend this route as long as you are happy on steeper terrain.
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UoN Mountaineers Annual Meet
The first weekend of March was the first annual meet for UoN Mountaineering. The club was formed by the merger of Explorers and MPS a few years ago, and so it was also a reunion for there members. I went on two walks, on the Saturday along High Street and the Sunday up Skiddaw.
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Attempt at Skiddaw
I recently went for a walk with the plan to go up Skiddaw (931 m), the fourth highest mountain in the Lake District. After heavy snow some days before it turned to be more difficult than I expected.
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New Years trip to Braemar
For a few days over New Years I went to Braemar to go winter walking. We had to work around the extensive flooding but managed to get some good walking done.
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Wild Lakes District weekend
Despite the mixed forecast this weekend I went to the Lake District with five friends, we camped on the Friday night, walked on the Saturday before camping and then walk back on the Sunday.