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Walking the Frozen Spine - the Pennine Way in Winter The Pennine Way in winter is a tough old route. As you probably already know or have experienced its bleak up there, bleak, dark, cold and almost always very wet. It’s the grandfather of long distance walks in the UK and completing it in winter as unsupported as possible is a fantastic challenge. In December 2012 two weeks before Christmas myse …

Corsica - April 2012 - KitlistCorsica in April is mainly hot - but high in the mountains there's usually deep snow still lying and while most days are cloud free about a third are cloudy with some rain. On these cloudy days at altitude the temperature can be suprisingly low.I had a window of opportunity to do a short training walk and even though the guidebook said it was too early to attempt the …