This two day walk leads you through the meadows, woodland and mountains of the Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler Nature Park in the Dolomites in Northern Italy. The iconic Dolomites Alta Via 2 is followed on the second day and there are overnight stays in the Schlüterhütte / Rifugio Genova and the Puez Hütte / Rifugio Puez. Start / Finish: Start the first day in Ortisei / … Continue reading HIKING ROUTE: Dawn and Dusk in the Dolomites
Go for a walk round the local fields and spot these birds that can be seen all year round in the countryside around Pury End and Paulerspury! You don’t need binoculars, but you will need wellies! Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Bird Bingo for Paulerspury & Pury End
Find and identify trees in the Warren using the map and pictures of their leaves and seeds. Suitable for all the family all year round, no equipment needed other than wellies to get through the mud! Continue reading NATURE HUNT: Pury End and Paulerspury Tree Hunt no.1
We never met here, but this is where I feel closest to him. There is crunching, glitter-hard snow beneath my mountaineering boots. On my right is the huge white heft of the mountain Similaun, on my left the jagged fangs of rocky Fineilspitze, behind me the green abundance of Italy, ahead the blank glaciers and concrete grey rock of Austria. Sitting here at his simple, … Continue reading ARTICLE: Ötzi and me
Whoooaaa! Pedal, pedal, pedal. And breathe. Nearly stacked it into a culvert on a tricky bend. I’d not been on my old mountain bike for a little while and had never ridden it with a saddlebag, handlebar bag and small rucksack on. ‘Discretion is the better part of valour’ has now become my trip motto. Chamois cream is now my skincare product of choice. New … Continue reading BIKEPACKING: Two Bikepack to the Cotswolds
Let the adventure begin. Chaos Crags, Bumpass Hell, black bears, mountain lions and potential wild fires all failed to dissuade us from camping in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Northern California last August. The park only measures 10 by 15 miles but packs in all four types of volcano (who knew?), 150 miles of hiking trails including a 17 mile section of the iconic Pacific Crest … Continue reading HIKING: Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA.
Does it seem excessive to fly an hour north of Delhi, drive for a day and a half, then trek for two days just to see a cow’s mouth? Not when it’s the holy site Gaumukh literally ‘the cow’s mouth’ in Hindi. This is where the Bhagirathi, one of the six headstreams of the Ganges, emerges from the snout of the Gangotri glacier in the … Continue reading TREKKING: The trail to the holy cow’s mouth
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