A Blog on the Landscape!

I bought the Optimus Crux stove for this trip. I admit that this is the first gas burner i have bought for decades. I see lots of gas stov...

I have now loaded the photo's from the Lakes walk and they can be found here . We hope you like them. This was our first night wild ca...

We are back home now after another scorching night and day. Its been a very pleasant trip and i will put the photos on when i have time to ...

We left the Coniston Hall campsite at 8.15 and we are glad to be on our way. This campsite is like Glastonbury but without the music. It was...

set off langdale this morning, still very cloudy and overcast but looked promising. followed the track past blea tarn to fell foot. across t...

Thursday . set off from the campsite up onto lingmor fell and Brown How .Walked into the mist, no visability above 300 metres. Followed quar...

having found the motorway, sorry path from ESk hause to Rossett ghyll we made our way down to the olddg. just had tea and a hot shower. the ...

we set of from seathwaite yesterday morning and headed up the esk towards scarfel.lovely day Sunny and clear. wild camped at lingcove beck. ...

We have been sorting the gear out for our weeks walk in Cumbria. We have not decided on a complete route as we want it to be a leisurely aff...

I thought it would save quite a bit of time and typing if i put a message on my blog rather than everybody else's individually. So for ...

I (sheila) have to say that i am very impressed with the new HTC Desire phone.  It does everything we desire. pun The Digital compass is v...

Prior to Sheila getting an iphone on her contract renewal, she has got an HTC Desire, just to try for a couple of weeks. Does anybody have a...

Anybody looking for a new sleeping bag in the not too distant future may want to take a look HERE . and compare it against other manufacture...

We go up to Sheila's mums in Gosforth Cumbria every 3 weeks to take her shopping. If we are lucky we can usually get a walk in, that is ...

When the Neo Air hit the market a great deal of excitement went round the outdoor community.  I eventually got mine in August 2009 after a ...

The walk we did on Sat. 17th April was a circular route, starting and obviously finishing from Turner Hall camp site . It included White Mai...

We arrived in the Duddon Valley on Thursday afternoon and set up base camp on Turner Hall Farm. It was extremely quiet and Hillary (Propriet...

I've been over to Todmorden today and the views are fantastic. As i sat there doing nothing i thought about M and G's walk from Mars...

 Sheila and I have just had confirmation that we will be marshall's again on Swirl How for this years Duddon Valley Fell Race .  The rac...

Our thanks go to Laura for finding a pair of Gore-tex socks which fit Sheila. We had been looking for a small pair of GT socks for ages, as...