Author: danryan1984

Who Says It’s Grim Up North? I just smiled again to myself today, as I drove home across The M1 motorway in Hertfordshire and spotted that sign ushering drivers towards ‘The North’. Clearly it’s such …

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The Normal Reaction I remember trying to entice my dad into a spot of wild camping last autumn after already successfully persuading him to visit the amazing Cambrian Mountains. Perhaps it was a step too …

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I am not a gambling man. If I was though, then I’d put good money on the fact that you probably have never heard of this area of mountains. Even if you have, I bet …

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Occasionally something enters our lives that can make a lasting impression. It might be a book we’ve read, a film we’ve watched or even a person that we have met. I believe places can have …

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Spending a week in the Scottish Highlands recently has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand I have amazing memories of some jaw-dropping vistas that I can re-visit in my mind …

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I’m sitting here on a leather sofa, drinking a fine glass of scotch, while watching the sun sink behind the snow- covered mountains across the loch. It’s safe to say that Scotland has blown me …

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As I stare at the stream of red lights making their way south on the M1, I am buzzing and feel totally alive. I know that this makes me sound like some mad traffic spotter, …

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A Mad idea Is Born This weekend I did something crazy. With the day free on Friday and the forecast of snow in the northern hills, I decided what better than complete a three hundred …

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I’ll admit it. For the last several months I’ve been obsessed with a little- known jewel in the far north of England. A little bothy so remote and unknown that it’s not even officially marked …

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