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!

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day four - Reeth to Aysgarth Falls via Grinton, Greets Hill, Apedale and Bolton Castle. Such variety and contrast across three dales - Swaledale, Apedale and Wensleydale.

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day 3 - Askrigg to Reeth via Oxnop, Gunnerside and Haverdale. Beautiful Swaledale. What more can I say?

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day - Buckden to Askrigg via Stake Moss and Semer Water. Up on the breezy heights, rolling green hills and the broad acres of Wensleydale.

Walking The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales. Day 1 - Grassington to Buckden via Littondale and Birks Fell. This book was published 28 years ago, an event that changed my life. I no longer write walking books, but I’m still making my living walking in the Yorkshire Dales.

Day 8 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. Detour into Whitby then along the coast to Robin Hood’s Bay. A wonderful end to a beautiful walk.

Day 7 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. Osmotherley to Clay Bank. We’re now on the Jurassic shales and sandstones, some 300 million years younger than the Lake District rocks. The North York Moors are beautiful.

Day 6 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. Reeth to Richmond. Through beautiful Swaledale via Marrick and Marske, and time to explore delightful Richmond.

Day 5 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. Keld to Reeth. The most beautiful place on Earth, the place where I had my epiphany moment in 1985 when I came to Reeth to play in the Swaledale Festival in my school band. A moment that changed my life.

Day 4 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. A beautiful day across the Westmorland Plateau from Orton to Kirkby Stephen. Views to the Howgill Fells & Yorkshire Dales, Neolithic stone circle, Romano British settlements & beautiful Smardale.

Day 3 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding 8 lovely Australians. The rain would clear to sunshine and showers by 11am, the forecast said. Nope. My group of Australians now know what the expression ‘wetter than an otter’s pocket’ means. Grasmere to Glenridding.

Day 2 of my C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure guiding a group of 8 lovely Australians. What a windy day; lovely light though! We walked around Ennerdale Water and then down from Honister into Borrowdale.

Off we go! My 9th Coast to Coast, and this time I’m guiding a C2C Highlights walk for Life’s An Adventure and a group of 8 lovely Australians. This is an 8 day highlights walk taking in the very best of the route. A dry breezy start, and then wind and rain came in beyond Sandwith.

Out on my 1-day Beginners Navigation Skills course today around Kettlewell in Wharfedale. The course covers the key skills to plan & follow your own walks in the countryside, safely & with confidence. It’s very empowering! Next course 19 Sept at Malham www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/begin...

Final day of my 3-day NNAS Straight to Silver navigation skills course based in the Yorkshire Dales. Practice, consolidation & demonstrating skills today up on the fells. Well done everyone - another 6 NNAS Silver Award holders are now ready to hit the hills! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Day Two of my 3-day NNAS Straight to Silver navigation skills course based at Kettlewell, Yorkshire Dales. Up on the moors and fells today - contours, compass bearings and strategies. The key skills required to navigate across open country. www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Day 1 of my 3-day NNAS Straight to Silver navigation skills course based at Kettlewell, Yorkshire Dales. Covering the key skills today - planning, essential kit, decision making, weather, legalities, spatial positioning, navigation strategies, plus lots more! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Oooh… what a lovely review! Thank you. Join me on an adventure to remember www.teamwalking.co.uk Read the review in full here www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_R...

Day 2 of my NNAS Bronze navigator award around Wharfedale. Today was all about consolidation of skills & putting it all into practice. Visualising the route ahead, engaged with their surroundings, planning & navigating a route that worked just perfectly. www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Day 1 of my NNAS Bronze navigator award today around Wharfedale. This course is all about how to plan and follow your own walks with confidence and safely. From weather and kit to understanding maps and navigation strategies. Get more from your walks www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Out on my Nature of the Yorkshire Dales today working with Mike Raine, around Ribblehead, Chapel le Dale and Ingleborough. Nature reserves, loads of flowers, Viking longhouse, Neolithic cist, pre-Anglian Glaciation doline, limestone geology, placenames, mosses, sheep breeds… plus loads more.

Highlights from this week’s 3 day expedition from Keswick to Ambleside via the Central Lake District fells. Beautifully quiet, fantastic views and two nights of wild camping. Leave no trace - we even fluffed up the grass! Join me for an adventure to remember. www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Join me this Bank Holiday weekend in the Yorkshire Dales I’ve a 2-day NNAS Bronze Navigator Award course on 23 & 24 August at Grassington. Enhance your enjoyment of the countryside, improve your confidence outdoors, follow your own walks, stay safe outdoors! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Join me in the Yorkshire Dales on the 23rd and 24th of August for an empowering weekend of skills and hiking! www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Coming up in August & September... Amazing adventures to remember! * NNAS Bronze & 'Straight to Silver' navigation skills courses * Yorkshire Dales Walking Weekend * Beginners & Intermediate 1-day navigation skills courses * Isle of Mull Adventure Week www.teamwalking.co.uk/walks-calend...

Interrailing across Europe 🚆🇮🇹 Genoa / Genova

Interrailing across Europe 🚆🇫🇷 Avignon

Here are some photos from my NNAS Bronze Award courses in the Yorkshire Dales. This could be you: planning & navigating your own walks, exploring further safely & making good decisions in the outdoors. My next course is 23 & 24 August at Grassington www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Coming up in August... NNAS Bronze Award 23 & 24 August - Grassington, Yorkshire Dales Forget apps and following the crowds... plan and follow your own walks in the countryside and stay safe out on the hills. These courses are really empowering www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/natio...

Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review… Thank you for taking the time to share your experience of our Wild Camping and Mountain Adventure weekend. Join me on one of my Outdoor Adventures and find out for yourself - they are adventures to remember! www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Day 2 of our North York Moors Walking Weekend, based at the Horseshoe Inn, Levisham. A beautiful route taking in the old 12th Century church, Farwath Crossing, Newton upon Rawcliffe, Surprise View and Newtondale Gorge. Another great walking weekend - cracking pub, lovely walks & great people.

Day 1 of our North York Moors Walking Weekend, based at the excellent Horseshoe Inn, Levisham. I took the ‘leisurely’ walk, a lovely varied 9 mile route from Levisham taking in the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Newton Dale Gorge and the Hole of Horcum. www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Day 5 and final day of our Northumberland Coast Path. 10 miles from Alnmouth to Amble. The historic Church Hill, beautiful Alnmouth Bay, amazing Warkworth and bustling Amble. Join me on my 2026 Northumberland Coast Path: 13th - 17th April 2026 www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/north...

Day 4 of our Northumberland Coast Path. 11 miles from Embleton to Alnmouth. A day of sweeping strands and beautiful bays, gaunt castle ruins, lovely fishing villages & oak smoke air. My 2026 Northumberland Coast dates are now online: 13th - 17th April 2026 www.teamwalking.co.uk/events/north...

Day 3 of our Northumberland Coast Path. 12 miles from Bamburgh to Embleton, with a 1.5 hour boat trip out to the Farne Islands. Today was all about castles & coastlines, sweeping beaches & seabirds, fishing villages & lighthouses. Lots of seals, puffins, kittiwakes & terns on the Farne Islands.

Day 2 of our Northumberland Coast Path. 18 miles from Holy Island to Bamburgh. Back across the Causeway, WWII defences, crossing the East Coast Mainline and A1 twice, woodland and rolling farmland, the old Great North Road and magnificent Bamburgh Castle.

Thank you

Day 1 of our Northumberland Coast Path. 15 miles from Berwick upon Tweed to Holy Island. Elizabethan ramparts, beautiful sweeping beaches, arctic terns, machair flowers and 3 miles barefoot across the sands to Lindisfarne. A wonderful day.

Highlights from our 3-day Mountain Adventure Weekend at Glen Coe. Stob Dearg 1022m Stob na Doire 1011m Stob Coire Altruim 941m Stob na Bròige 956m Stob Dubh 958m Stob Coire Raineach 925m Stob Coire Nan Lochan 1115m Join me on an adventure to remember: www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Highlights from three days wild camping and Munro bagging in the magnificent Mamores. Binnein Mòr 1140m Binnein Beag 943m Sgùrr Eilde Mòr 1010m Sgùrr Eilde Beag 956m Na Gruagaichean 1056m Superb views, magnificent sunsets and three dry days! www.teamwalking.co.uk/event-catego...

Day 5 of our 5-day Walking the Wainwrights - Northern Fells. Two more Wainwrights Completers - well done Katriona and Barbara. A brilliant achievement! 🏅⛰️🥾 Carrock Fell 660m High Pike 651m That’s 8 Wainwrights Completers this year! Why not join me for your Wainwright Adventure?

Day 4 of our 5-day Walking the Wainwrights - Northern Fells. Great Calva 690m Bakestall 673m Binsey 447m Two walks today with lots of ascent; 1000m in just 13-km. Such beautiful weather, and the views from Great Calva and Binsey are amongst the finest you’ll find in the Lakes. Quiet too.

Day 3 of our 5-day Walking the Wainwrights - Northern Fells. Bowscale Fell 702m Bannerdale Crags 683m Mungrisdale Common 633m Blencathra 868m Souther Fell 522m A misty start, with a brief clearing on Bannerdale Crags. Of course, as soon as we’d descended from Blencathra the sun came out!☀️