Category: things that live and change
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Mushroom foraging and rainy days in Lochaber, Scotland – August
The forecast for the day was for rain, and indeed it rained for most of the day, clearing only later in the evening. We tried walking a path that cut through from Glen Coe to the south bank of Loch Leven, then walking back along the road a bit until we found a forest track…
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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…