It was a 3pm start for seven Serious Warts including Jim O who was doing his own thing on the opposite side of the Derwent valley. The remaining six of us were bracing ourselves for a classic brutal start from Read more

On the approach to the change to summertime, we six Serious Warts (the fair-weather Warts were strangely absent) chose the Hagg hostel lay-by (unpleasantly littered) for our starting point. Any celebration of the arrival of summertime was very much curtailed: Read more

Old men tend to tell tales of their youth, and the Serious Warts are no exception. For those who had been prepared to listen to us (not many, admittedly), we had recounted a recent experience in what we thought were Read more

After last week’s gentle downhill start, we reverted to the brutal normality of an uphill one from Birchen Clough from the cars up to anticipated feels like temperatures of minus 4⁰C in the strongish wind. The usual debate started on Read more

Our recent past outings have been veering on the wild side, with snow and ice at a feels like temperature of about minus 12⁰C, on Kinder edge and semi remoteness at the three sheeper sheep fold near Barrow Stones. Our Read more

Having arrived at the sheepfold, formerly known as the three-sheeper (because, surprisingly, it was thought to hold three of them), we started the now routine discussion of just how many it actually could contain. Certainly, more than three, possibly six Read more