Lake District

Outdoors

MPS 2025

Another year, another MPS trip. Penruddock was calling, and after the usual Friday-night excitement of continual arrivals we reconvened on Saturday morning for a trip around the northern fells.

  • 29th November 2025
Outdoors

Abraham’s Tea Round

After a couple of abortive pandemic-struck attempts at a Paddy Buckley round, I decided to stop focussing on a load of hills I’ve already run across hundreds of times, and strike out for somewhere new instead.

  • 25th August 2021
Identifying the route ahead, looking South-West from the lower slopes of Moel Hebog. © Haydn Williams 2017
Outdoors

Busy busy

It’s been a fairly hectic run up to Christmas, with wild camping, running, and snowy running.

  • 24th December 2017
Heading off on the North Face trail. © Haydn Williams 2017
Outdoors

Lakes MTB

It was “off to the Lake District” last weekend, for the annual Bowline MTB weekend.

  • 12th November 2017
Great End looking spectacular. © Haydn Williams 2016
Outdoors

Not-so-Great End

The coldest night ever in a tent, followed by a lethargic walk-in, an abandoned climb up Cust’s Gully, and a sleep of over an hour in the services on the way home.

  • 1st March 2016
Competitors on a very dark hillside above Mungrisdale as we kit up. © Haydn Williams 2016
Outdoors

Marmot Dark Mountains 2016

Hooray, a mountain marathon in the Lake District! At night. In January. With a weather warning. What could possibly go wrong?

  • 4th February 2016
Stu and I heading onto Helvellyn from Striding Edge. © John Brannock 2013
Outdoors

It starts…

First snow of the year a couple of weekends ago in the Lakes with a bunch of (now mostly ex-) MPS people. A leisurely stroll over Striding Edge, Helvellyn and the Dodds on Saturday was followed by a lovely pub dinner…

  • 5th December 2013