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In October 2018 we completed a trek to Everest Base Camp, returning via Cho-la Pass and Goyko Lakes. Thanks to the Evertrek team and the guides for organising such a great trip! I used the Viewranger app to track each day of our route. Below you can see the Read More …
We returned to the Dolomites this year for our annual boys weekend away, heading for the Tre Cima range north-west of Cortina. Although early in the season and some huts not yet open, we’d booked in to Refugio Lavaredo which sits at the foot of the iconic Tre Cima triple Read More …
Early each year we start to think about possible destinations for our annual long weekend jaunt to somewhere in European mountains. After several years trips the challenge is to find somewhere that we haven’t been to, has decent mountains (ideally fairly high with huts) and reasonable regular/cheap flights. After the Read More …
Black Mountain Oct16 from Nigel Gray on Vimeo. An ‘s‘ and around 40 miles separate the Black Mountains and the Black Mountain, which mark the eastern and western extremes of the Brecon Beacon national park. A Thursday business trip to Cardiff was an ideal opportunity to visit the western Brecon Read More …
This years mountain weekend was a little further afield, aiming to summit Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa at 4,167m. Eminently doable in a long weekend we flew to Marrakesh and immediately took a taxi to the village of Imlil in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The Read More …
No wonder I saw no other soul in 24 hours – the foothills of Arenig Fawr are a pathless, tussocky bogfest that sap the life and energy from your limbs with every squelchy stomp! The weather forecast had been less than encouraging but a bright blue sky in London teased Read More …
It was a social weekend really – a chance to get away and meet up with some friends and enjoy beautiful countryside, a walk or two, with good beer and food. We stayed at the delightful Keld Bunkhouse, which a friend had happened across on his Coast-to-Coast route last year. Read More …
I took a small SJCAM SJ4000 waterproof video camera on my recent Aran Ridge wild camp trip. It only arrived in the morning so no chance to read the manual or tweak settings, or fully charge the battery so it didn’t last for the whole trip and thus my edit Read More …
As ever, I didn’t manage to get away from London as early as expected so it was 6pm when I arrived in Bala to grab some provisions, parking at the lake to sort out my gear and load my rucksack. I had some new stuff to try out. I’d be Read More …
I should have been summiting Mount Triglav in Slovenia. Flights were booked, the route planned and huts contacted some months back but misfortune afflicted my travel companions – one was advised by his doctor not to go lest disrupt his ankle rehabilitation and the other fell foul of a hernia Read More …