Red Screes

Date:

27.11.2010

A dump of snow overnight, followed by bright sunshine the next morning gave us a great day for a hike up Red Screes. Unfortunately, the bright sunshine didn't hold out all the way to the top of Red Screes, and it was pretty windy and very chilly by the time we got there. No views down to Brotherswater whatsoever. That was definitely a pity, as it's a lovely viewpoint otherwise. Anyway, we descended from there down to Scandale Head and back down the valley to Rydal and Ambleside. My friend Sue and I enjoyed a nice coffee at Esquires before taking in a nice sunset over Windermere on the walk back to the Briery Wood hotel.

Jebel Toubkal

Date:

19.11.2010

Buttermere to Keswick

Date:

24.10.2010

This has to be one of my more memorable days of walking in the autumn! After a previous day's soaking in the rain, we were totally inspired by the beautiful route we had planned from the Buttermere youth hostel. So excited about it that I even made the effort to get up specially at 4.00am just so we could be out the hostel and onto the route by 5.00am. That's dedication I can tell you. Anyway, when we left the youth hostel it was pretty chilly, but fortunately the sky was almost crystal clear. The hike up through Burtness wood and following Sour Milk Gill in the dark wasn't my fondest memories of the day, but since we'd been looking forward to seeing a sunrise from the top of Red Pike, it simply had to be done. Unfortunately though, all our efforts weren't rewarded with the amazing sunrise >>>

Braithwaite to Buttermere

Date:

23.10.2010

This was a day of walking which is only memorable for the unpleasant weather we had, and the first of a 2-day circuit from Braithwaite. I was meeting with my friend Sue from Dumfries again, and the route was basically taking us up from the high car park in Braithwaite, to Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head and finally across Wandope and Whiteless Pike before we headed down into Buttermere. It was a case of trying to ignore the incessant wind/rain/sleet and getting to our destination where we could dry off a little. Fortunately, even though our gear might have gotten damp from the rain, our morale wasn't dampened since we had already prepared ourselves for a day of bad weather but the next day was forecasted to be really good. We had something to look forward to, and a great route planned out!

Chimborazo

Date:

28.08.2010

Cotopaxi

Date:

25.08.2010

Illiniza Norte

Date:

23.08.2010

Characteristic:

Hike

© Hannah Vickers På tide å legge ut noen bilder nå, men det kommer ikke turrapport! Husker ikke så mye fra turen, bortsett fra at det var en kjempefin dag, vi fikk med oss en hund på tur (aner ikke hvor han dukket opp fra) og jeg kom tilbake med stor hodepine etter å ha blitt altfor tørst ila. dagen.

Guagua Pichincha

Date:

21.08.2010

© Hannah Vickers Our breakfast was scheduled for 6.30am, so we could be picked up by 7am and make our way to the next mountain on our acclimatization – Guagua (‘baby’) Pichincha. Sadly the breakfast was pretty meagre for several hungry mountaineers, we got a couple of slices of papaya and a small croissant. It wasn’t exactly a substantial amount of food to go climbing mountains on! Fortunately we were going to be passing by a bakery/grocery store along the way to the mountain, so I picked up some extra fruit and things to snack on. Today, we drove up another mountain road leading up to a farm at around 3700m. It was pretty windy when we got out, and felt a lot fresher than the previous day’s balmy stroll! The remainder of the road continued up towards ‘Cruz Loma’ at 4100m, where a lot of tourist >>>

Pasochoa

Date:

20.08.2010

© Hannah Vickers After breakfast I was met by Franklin at the Auberge Inn where I had been staying for a few nights. Franklin was our mountain guide for the 9-day trip arranged by the company ‘High Summits’ based in Quito. Today would be an easy acclimatisation walk up a hill outside of Quito. The rest of the group were waiting for me on the bus. There were 4 Germans (Andrea, Tomas, Elke and Michael), a Spanish bloke (Mathias), and an American who didn’t appear to have done any kind of mountain climbing/walking at all (Nick). They all seemed quite friendly people from first impressions anyway. Our first stop of the day was the baguette shop, on our journey to Pasochoa. A lot of the height was gained by bus, and we got off at about 3600m, which meant less to climb. It was a shame as it was a nice track >>>

Yorkshire 3 Peaks

Date:

31.07.2010

After much talking and emailing with my friend Sue we decided to meet somewhere other than the Lake District for some walking. I'm not sure how we wended up deciding on this route now, but for some reason it had an appeal which we could not resist. So the plan was made. I drove up from Leicester and Sue came down from Dumfries, and we both met up at the youth hostel in Ingleton on a very rainy Friday evening. Initially we would have been in a dormitory sharing a full dormitory with about 6 other women but we decided on a rather cunning plan to bag one of the smaller and empty 2-bed dorms by talking and smiling very sweetly to the guy at the hostel reception. Our excuse was that we were getting up very early the next morning and of course did not want to disturb other guests, so could we perhaps >>>