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Morning: Lets have a lazy day and just wander around Keswick today. Afternoon: 10.76 mile walk.

Set off the day with no real goals for the day, gaiters were packed as a ‘just in case’ and all we really wanted to do was to visit Hope Park (my personal favourite spot in the Lake District) and maybe wander on up to Friars Crag, which no matter the weather, always serves incredible views of the lake...

First fell complete!

With an unexpected late start to the day, due to a very mild asthma attack but no asthma pump in possession (oops), a quick trip to a pharmacy in Carlisle sorted us out, but we started out thinking the day would be a write off. However, a speedy recovery and with the afternoon blue skies calling us outside, we decided to tackle one of the smaller fells – Walla Crag.

With this...

After we got back from our first fell, we were raring to have a session working out what our next fell would be.

We set up the Laptop and got out the Wainwright book, SatMap Active 20 (kindly provided by SatMap) and of course some Wainwright beer (would be rude not to wouldn’t it!) See the Active 20 details here.

We decided to take a look at a route that could tick a few off at once, then our eye...

Morning arrives, we are packed and ready to go, we meet with the other car carrying the other household of the team and say hello at a socially distant space.

Both cars are jam packed and we are set to go for our first trip.

Knowing that this is going to be tough both physically and emotionally we started our journey.

The Lake District (and Keswick in particular) hold a very dear place in Mum and ...

We have been working in the background with Stylize Design Graphics over the last few weeks to help us with some pretty epic items.

When we undertake the Wainwright fells we want to make sure we document each one and do it so that people can see what we are doing while we are up there.

Speaking with Neil and Jamie, we came up with an idea and they went to work putting it into practice.

Around 2 we...