Category: fauna
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Going through Little Hell Gate on Great Gable, Lake District – April
We thought we may have been up Great Gable on a previous occasion (I checked later, and it turned out that we had gone up it in 2009). In any case, we knew that we had not gone up ‘direct’ route up the south-west ridge, through the charmingly named Little Hell Gate. I forgot to…
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A circular walk from Lewes, East Sussex – November
We had not gone for even a day walk since September, and the weather forecast was good, so we took the opportunity to drive to Lewes in East Sussex to do a circular walk, which was around 16 miles and took 7 hours (including getting lost for a while trying to follow the directions in…
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Hares and aeroplanes on Lochnagar, Cairngorms, Scotland – September
We made a 9.10am start from a car park a few miles east our of Braemar. We had intended to follow a circular walk going up to Lochnagar, but were asked by the representative of a big group of stalkers in several 4x4s to keep to paths and come back the same way from the…