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A very short break to the Lake District. Leisurely start yesterday. Tea and amazingly good cake at Rheged. Traditional mooch round Needlesports. Tea and cake in Flock Inn. Wet plod up Castle Crag. Seemingly Wednesday was exceptionally wet even by Cumbrian standards – there was a lot of water about.  Back to Keswick. Queuing outContinue reading “New Adventures in Boop Boop”

Not Burbage Brook …. To Liverpool to @outdoorindustry Outdoor Trade Show Summer 2026 with @bencooper_bc1 to look at new stuff and things for an article for the mountain rescue journal. Some new bits and pieces. Some interesting stuff. Nothing mindblowing imho. But there was the annual shaking of the hand of @christownsendoutdoors. He’s done aContinue reading “Day Tripper”

A species based report by the RSPB covering a decade of raptor persecution in the UK. Data over anecdote. Report

or ‘Normal Service is Resumed’ Part 1 A schlep up to Stanedge Pole to see the extent of the gate damage. Some time from Thu evening the new barrier at Dennis Knoll has had the lock cropped, as has the gate behind it, as has the gate over the Causeway midway between the pole andContinue reading “Saturday Eveninging”

Several times today, when looking back along the line make sure i was herding the right number of cats, i was struck by the depth of mountain and alpine rescue experience therein … probably somewhere above 300 years worth. Finally out of the lecture rooms and out on to the moors after their four daysContinue reading “Not far with ICAR”

And in to the Shire of Burbage yesterday i did welcome the Chuckle Brothers aka the Brothers-From-A-Different-Mother aka @jcxplore and @bencooper_bc1 And onwards we did march and we spake in fluent Northern tongues. Pet. I did showeth them mine deer herd. Into the woodlands we did venture and i presented unto them some poop d’Continue reading “Samwise Gamgee”

Quiet drum roll …… 🥁🥁🥁🥁 If any of the words, pictures, acts or deeds on the blog, socials or website (or indeed the stuff that never makes it in to the public space) make you momentarily think …. ‘He sounds like a decent chap …. I’d like to buy him a coffee ..’ You nowContinue reading “Coffree”

I was exchanging messages with Dickie today. Dickie is one of the young ‘uns that’s just joined the rescue team (albeit he’s getting on for a decade older than me). He’s currently somewhere near Richmond (after a pub lunch) walking the Coast to Coast walk to raise funds for the rescue team. Good lad.  IContinue reading “Is there a chippy ?”

It was cold and wet last night and cold this morning, so foolishly i put winter softshells on and a thick Capilene baselayer …. so of course there was a full speed trip up Grinds Brook in blazing sun. Of course there was. It were reet warm. I’m now spending what’s left of my SundayContinue reading “Bootiful”

An excellent article in the Guardian today covering the July 2022 fire in Wennington. A fire in a field quickly moved to neighbouring properties and 18 homes were burnt down. ‘In total, 70 houses were destroyed across the UK that day in a record 600 wildfires – the largest loss of British housing to aContinue reading “Unpreparedness”