Wanderings up North

So the start of 2019 saw us moving house after 20 yrs,never moving again.Sadly i was ill nearly all the christmas break,so a return to the hills was very much needed I never set my alarm and amazingly slept till 8 am so was a bit late meeting up with Lee As we both have been off the hill the last month or two we choose an easy first trip and had a walk up over Low& High pike,thick clag was our only companion as we crossed over to Dove crag We dropped down a little ways for water and were soon stamping down snow for camp, just a few minutes back from Hart crag summit Food was one of my favs from Bla-Bland supplied by Basecamp foods as usual I looked out a few times but sadly the clag never moved off till just before dawns it was a relaxing evening  Dawn was so-so but the inversion and light we were treated to for the next few hours was special  The East and N...

  Oscar joined us, June 2007, as an older pup of 8wks.He was from a litter of eight from his parents home in Woodland,here in South Cumbria  He took to family and hill life as just another step,trained easy and never on the lead in all his hill days.He loved the snow and without asking just lifted a leg so i could put his pack on The pictures are from his home in the Lakes hill and the mountains of Scotland,he completed a round of the Wainwright's and at a guess a hundred or so Munros  "All his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing "   "A heart of gold stopped beating,   Two shinning eyes at rest.    God broke our hearts to prove to us,    He only takes the best. "My sunshine doesn't come from the skies,  It comes from the love in my dogs eyes." "You're only a dog,...