v-g Backpacking in Britain BlogThe first backpack of 2010: a winter return to a familiar circuit of hills from Dolwyddelan, ascending Moel Siabod via the splendid steep rocky ridge of Daear Ddu and following the arc of hills around to Allt-fawr, then returning on the south side via Moel Penamnen and the fine viewpoint of Y Ro Wen.
This time […]
A short backpack in the northern Arans with the objective of a pitch by Creiglyn Dyfi, designed for the brief daylight hours approaching the winter solstice and the delicate condition of my foot, still recovering from plantar fasciitis (it’s going to be a long haul with this).
We had promised ourselves a pitch in this excellent […]
A 2-day solo circuit of the fells around Patterdale and the Kirkstone Pass. The outward route via the Ullswater shore path enabled me to climb one of my two remaining Dewey 500m tops of the Lake District en route, continuing to Place Fell, Angle Tarn, High Street and Caudale Moor. The return via St. Raven’s […]
A return visit to the Central Cairngorms as a joint trip after my phenomenal solo circuit in May earlier this year. This is a shorter route covering some of the same ground, traversing the Braeriach and Cairn Toul corries on the outward leg and ascending Ben Macdui directly from the Lairig Ghru, and following the […]
Another trek around virtually deserted backwaters of mid Wales to escape the summer masses, this time using a whole raft of Dewey 500m hills in the north of the Pumlumon region as a framework for a route. A total of 14 Dewey tops are visited along with a couple of lower hills on the outward […]
A circuit around the hills of the Dee valley between Corwen and Llangollen, largely following the Clwydian Way for the northern half and the North Berwyn Way for the southern. A dry but rather mediocre interlude in a wet spell of weather suggested a short backpack fairly close to home and this was a good […]
A 2-day backpack around the North Western Carneddau from Aber, approaching the massif along the Foel-ganol ridge and returning via Gyrn and Moel Wnion.
This circuit was suggested by the four Dewey tops in the Carneddau range that I had yet to visit. Foel-ganol and Yr Orsedd form a short ridge that give a new and […]
A magnificent solo 4½-day backpack of the Central Cairngorms, a circuit that boasts some of the finest mountain scenery in Scotland. The route takes in nine Munros, including five of the elite 4000+ feet peaks.
The weather conditions were perfect throughout with almost constant sunshine and good clarity, while the patchy lingering snowfields added a touch […]
I’ve just returned from a superb 5-day mountain backpack around the Cairngorms, a favoured area at the moment with two recent blog reports already posted from Robin at BlogpackingLight and Martin at Summit and Valley that I’ll study at greater length when I’ve completed my own report. The conditions were perfect throughout and this mouthwatering […]
A 2-day route from Cwnwyd based on the Dewey 500m tops of the northern Berwyn hills, approaching on the virtually untrodden Moel yr Henfaes and returning via the familiar line of Vivod Mountain and Moel Fferna.
There were four new Dewey tops in our plan for this circuit, but we ran short of time near the […]
