Author: asa
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Arriving in Glen Coe, Scotland – August
The day after our walk over Sca Fell and Scafell Pike, we awoke to a grey morning. Then it started raining. Eventually we decided to head to Scotland. Stopping at a supermarket in Carlisle which had a good price for fuel, we drove until we reached the Red Squirrel campsite in Glen Coe. We found…
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Trying out the Lord’s Rake for Sca Fell, Lake District – August
The sky was grey in the morning, and the hills shrouded in mist, but we set off walking from the campsite up towards Mickledore col between Scafell Pike and Sca Fell. After a bit of discussion we found the bottom of the Lord’s Rake, a scree route up to Sca Fell, in the mist. We…
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Out walking again, finally, Snowdonia – August
It has been a while since I added an entry on this site. It has been a while since I got to go on a walking trip. We visited Snowdonia in Wales on our way through to the Scottish Highlands, with a view to getting some scrambling practice. We decided to revisit Tryfan and the…