Hiatus

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to do a walk over Easter, for various reasons, and now I’m out of the country until the end of May. So there’ll be no fells following Shipman Knotts (#110) for two months. 3rd or 4th June will be the next walk, most likely.

Here’s a nice picture instead, taken on walk 30 (18th January 2011).

View from the walk to Sergeant Man: misty valleys, hills, that kind of thing

The longest walk yet, and the halfway point reached

Haweswater, with the Pennines behind, seen from Harter Fell

Walk 35 saw me reach fell number 107 – thus, the halfway point of the 214 Wainwrights, a milestone reached on the summit of Mardale Ill Bell. It has taken me 1 year, 8 months and 2 weeks to reach this point. This was a very good walk with fine views and lots of different terrain, but also a very long one – at 17.8 miles (just over 28 km), the longest one yet in fact.

As of today then I have bagged 110 of the 214 Wainwrights, so hav 104 to go. I have walked an approximate total of 336.12 miles and ascended 99,946 feet – another milestone approaches (although the way Memory Map usually underestimates altitudes, I may well have already reached it).

Next walk is due around the Easter weekend, although after that I have to take a month off due to going away for work. I’m trying to set up arrangements for sponsorship now.