Day Two of our Yorkshire Dales Backpacking Adventure Weekend. An enjoyable, cool and calm overnight camp with a beautifully soft morning. Then, the mist and rain came in at lunchtime… We hiked from Kettlewell back to Malham via Hawkswick, High Lineseed Head and Street Gate. Until next year…

Coming up… Lakeland Autumn Adventure Weekend Great Langdale, Lake District 22nd & 23rd November 2025 Spend a sociable, enjoyable and adventurous weekend hiking some of Lakeland’s most iconic hills, fells and mountains. Choice of TWO mountain walks each day. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/lakel...

Day One of our Yorkshire Dales Backpacking Adventure Weekend. We’ve hiked from Malham to Kettlewell via ancient monastic routes, amazing glaciokarst landscapes, disappearing rivers and some incredible views. Oh, the light across the landscapes!

Out on my Geography of the Yorkshire Dales course today around Austwick, Norber, Crummackdale and the Whetstone Spring. We explored settlement patterns, Enclosure Acts, sheep breeds, Craven Fault zone, Norber Erratics, whetstone, prehistoric settlements… plus lots more. www.teamwalking.co.uk

19th November 2025 Austwick, Crummackdale Time to relax, recharge and renew in the Yorkshire Dales. Delve deeper into nature on our Wellbeing Walk www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/well-...

Coming up in November... Backpacking, Wild Camping, Lakeland Adventure Weekend, Geography of the Yorkshire Dales, Dark Skies Hike, Wellbeing Walk... www.teamwalking.co.uk/walks-calend...

Out around Hawnby, North York Moors today working with Pro-Development to help deliver the first part of their Remarkable Leadership Programme. What better place is there than the outdoors for learning, reflection, discussions and thought? www.teamwalking.co.uk/outdoor-team...

Yorkshire Dales Backpacking Weekend 8th & 9th November 2025 Malham to Kettlewell Join me for an amazing adventure backpacking over beautiful fells and amazing limestone ravines. Full camping kit provided (except sleeping bag). 📸 photos from 2024 trip www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/yorks...

Day two of my NNAS Bronze navigation skills course in Swaledale. A beautifully blustery autumn day 🍁🍂🤩 A day of practice and consolidation, with adaptive and dynamic route choice and good decision making. My 2026 NNAS dates are now online. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Day 1 of my NNAS Bronze navigation skills course in Swaledale. A great day learning the foundational skills of good navigation. Fully engaged with our surroundings, visualising the route ahead, building confidence… it’s empowering! 2026 NNAS dates now online. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Lake District Walking Weekend based at Coniston. A wonderful weekend with 30 people and a choice of three walks. A bit of a damp day…💧💨 so not many photos. A lovely low level route around Hodge Close, Tilberthwaite, Little Langdale and Cathedral Quarries. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/lakel...

Lake District Walking Weekend based at Coniston. A wonderful weekend with 30 people and a choice of 3 walks. I took the lower level route around Tarn Hows, Black Crag & Hodge Close, where the intermediate group split off to take in Holme Fell. The adventurous route headed up Wetherlam.

Day 2 of my Mountain Skills course at Coniston. A grand day up onto Swirl How and Great Carrs, with beautiful light. A day of strategies, decision making, steep ground, route choice, timings, compass work and lots of contours. For more details - www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Day 1 of my Mountain Skills course at Coniston. We covered route planning, decision making, essential kit, weather, navigation skills, contour interpretation & distance, plus dealing with steep ground, ‘off piste’ navigation and lots more! For more details - www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Bow Fell via the Climbers’ Traverse & Crinkle Crags. Crinkle Crags is good fun in mist - every time I go up there I bump into ‘navigationally challenged’ people. My advice - take a map & compass, learn how to use them and don’t passively follow a phone. www.teamwalking.co.uk/walks-calend...

Join me for an adventure weekend to remember in beautiful Great Langdale. Choice of mountain walks too… www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/lakel...

Join me on an adventurous 2 day expedition up on the Lakeland fells and mountains this November! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/wild-...

Join me for a weekend to remember! Backpacking between Malham and Kettlewell through some of the Yorkshire Dales’ most epic landscapes then camp overnight at Kettlewell. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/yorks...

Out on my Howgill Fells 2000s Challenge Walk yesterday. All 9 summits over 2,000-ft. Great Dummacks – 663m Calders – 674m Bram Rigg Top – 672m The Calf – 676m White Fell – 640m Bush Howe – 623m Fell Head – 640m Randygill Top – 624m Yarlside – 639m www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Out on my Cognitive Navigation course today around Austwick, Norber & Crummackdale. Fully engaged £ immersed with our surroundings, building mental maps, firing up our place & grid cells… cognitive ‘active’ navigation is a fundamental part of being outdoors. www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Want to learn some proper skills? Join me on the 23rd & 24th October at Coniston in the Lake District for 2 days of mountain inspiration! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/mount...

Out on my 1-day Map Reading course today around Swaledale. This course brings maps & the landscape alive… whether you use a ‘traditional’ map or a mobile phone app, the key to good navigation is interpretation of maps & decision making www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/begin...

Out on my ‘Geography of the North York Moors’ walk today around Danby, Esk Dale, Fryup Dale and Danby Rigg. There’s so much to see from Danish place names & a medieval packhorse bridge to holloways, glacial lakes, Liassic shales, Ravenscar sandstones & the Bronze Age remains on Danby Rigg.

Day 14 (& final) of our Coast to Coast. Grosmont to Robin Hood’s Bay. It was a pleasure & privilege to guide this wonderful group of 10 people, and share my knowledge & passion of the North of England with them. Congratulations on their amazing achievement.

Day Thirteen of our Coast to Coast. Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge to Grosmont. Moorland crosses and standing stones, Great Fryup Dale, ancient roads and paved trods, a romantic bridge and steam trains at Grosmont. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day 12 of our Coast to Coast. Osmotherley to the Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge 20 miles across the Cleveland Hill, Urra Moor & Farndale Moor, via the North York Moors highest point at Round Hill (454m). A superb day’s hillwalking. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Coming up this autumn... 15th October - Reeth, Swaledale 12th November - Grassington, Wharfedale 3rd December - Aysgarth Falls, Wensleydale www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/begin...

Day Eleven of our Coast to Coast. Danby Wiske to Osmotherley More tracks and field edges across the Vale of Mowbray and then the infamous A19 crossing… beyond which we entered the North York Moors. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day Ten of our Coast to Coast. Richmond to Danby Wiske Today we left the Yorkshire Dales behind, crossed the A1 and headed across the Vale of Mowbray. We visited the grave of Henry Jenkins who lived to 169! He put his longevity down to eating raw onions & swimming in the Swale daily.

COMING UP... 14 Oct: Geography of the North York Moors 15 Oct: Map Reading course, Yorkshire Dales 16 Oct: Cognitive Navigation, Yorkshire Dales 17 Oct: Howgill Fells 2000s Challenge 22 Oct: Bowfell & Crinkle Crags 23 & 24 Oct: Mountain Skills, Lake District www.teamwalking.co.uk/walks-calend...

Day Nine of our Coast to Coast. CB Inn to Richmond Another beautifully breezy autumn day. Up over Fremington Edge to the lead mines of Hurst, then along the rim of the deep trough of Marske Beck to Marske, then through the Applegarths to Richmond. A superb route.

Day Eight of our Coast to Coast. Keld to the CB Inn, Arkengarthdale At last, a beautifully breezy autumn day. Oh, the joy of walking across the Yorkshire moors; the far-reaching views, deep ravines and abandoned lead mines.

Day 7 of our Coast to Coast Kirkby Stephen to Keld The winds from Storm Amy were forecast to be 50+ mph on Nine Standards so we went via Nateby then up over the road across Tailbridge and down into lovely Birkdale and Swaledale. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day Six of our Coast to Coast. Shap to Kirkby Stephen Storm Amy arrived earlier than forecast. After Orton, conditions deteriorated to heavy rain & strong winds so we dropped down from Ravenstonedale Moor to join the old railway line at Brownber then followed this into Kirkby Stephen.

Day Five of our Coast to Coast. Patterdale to Shap The forecast was for gusts of 32mph on High Raise but the wind was knocking us sideways on Satura Crag so I went with ‘Plan B’ & a lower level route across Beda Fell to Howtown, up over Askham Fell (stone circle) and along to Bampton & Shap.

Day Four of our Coast to Coast. Grasmere to Patterdale Up and over the mountain pass, beside the lake of Dunmail, King of Strathclyde, and through the valley of the wild pigs. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse. I’m keeping a close eye on Storm Amy…

Thank you Anne for such a wonderful review of our recent Isle of Mull Adventure Week! Next year's dates are now online: 21 - 25 Sept 2026 Join Mark Reid and Ross Christie (Isle of Mull expert and fluent Gaelic speaker) for a week of walking to remember! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/isle-...

Day Three of our Coast to Coast. Seatoller to Grasmere Through the heart of Lakeland via Greenup Edge and Far Easedale. Misty moorlands, rocky crags and lovely waterfalls. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day Two of our Coast to Coast. Ennerdale Bridge to Seatoller Into the Lake District and Wild Ennerdale, Borrowdale Volcanic rocks, lovely Black Sail, the climb up Loft Beck over to Honister and beautiful Borrowdale. This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day One of our Coast to Coast. St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge. This is now my 9th C2C. It’s always a pleasure & a privilege to share this route with others … the Permian-Triassic sandstones of the coast to the Ordovician rocks of Nannycatch, Viking placenames, glacial troughs plus amazing views.

Day Five (and final) day of our Isle of Mull Walking Week and the beautiful Isle of Ulva. A tiny ferry, standing stones, clearance villages, basalt columns (same as Giant’s Causeway), stunning coastlines, Livingstone’s family cottage and a white-tailed sea eagle to finish.

Day Four of our Isle of Mull Walking Week and the beautiful coastline of Calgary Bay and the Treshnish Peninsula. Hidden away along this rugged coastline are three deserted villages, abandoned during the infamous Highland Clearances - the people from Calgary Bay went on to found Calgary, Canada.

Day Three of our Isle of Mull Walking Week - walking coast to coast! Salen (east coast) to Loch na Keal (west coast) via ancient woodland, Cnoc na Sròine hillfort, Aros castle and the famous wooden boats.

Day Two of our Isle of Mull Walking Week and a day on Iona. What an island! 3 billion year old Lewisian Gneiss, St Columba, the Well of Eternal Youth, Dùn Ì viewpoint, the original Celtic Cross plus so much more!

Day One of our Isle of Mull Walking Week and a wonderful ascent up to the ‘twin’ summits of Dùn da Ghaoithe (766m), on the eastern side of the island. Wonderful views across the island and much further afield to Arran in the south and Skye to the north.

Out on my 1-day Map Reading course (Beginners Level 1) around Malham. These courses are the foundation of great navigation skills, to build confidence & skills to plan & follow your own walks in the countryside. Next course: 15th Oct at Reeth, Swaledale. www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Join me on next year’s guided ‘Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales’ 19th - 24th April 2026 6 days, 76 miles, 26 pubs. You’ll have a great time, but don’t just take my word for it… You’re guaranteed not to get lost too, as I wrote the book! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/inn-w...

Yorkshire Dales Walking Weekend Askrigg, Wensleydale Sunday’s ‘adventurous’ walk headed up onto the dramatic limestone escarpment of Ellerkin Scar. Magnificent views across Wensleydale and a wonderful way to end a great walking weekend. Until our next walking weekend at Coniston in October…

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day six - Kettlewell to Grassington via Conistone Pie, Bare House, Yarnbury and Hebden. A slightly modified route due to the weather. The final day is always touched with sadness, as we say goodbye to the Yorkshire Dales. Until next year…

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day five - Aysgarth Falls to Kettlewell via Walden, Fleensop Moor, Horsehouse, Coverdale and Top Mere Road. A day of sunshine and very heavy showers, with quite a drenching on Fleensop Moor. Still, it’s great to see streams flowing again with gusto!