In our usual fashion we tried to bite off exactly as much as we could chew in last weekends two day hike around some of Englands finest landscape. Andrew was tasked with route planning and prepared a tough but just about acheivable 24 miles with over 7000ft of elevation. We’d allowed two days to complete this but planned to get the bulk of it done Saturday to allow plenty of time to travel home Sunday Afternoon. When I say ‘just about acheiveable’ I really mean it. We covered 19 miles on the first day including plenty of steep and technical terrain, and I was shuffling along like a pensioner by the end of it…. It turns out walking downhill is pretty tough! This was actually the longest and hardest walk of my life so far and It was a great sense of aceivement to cover so much ground in one sitting.

Along the way I had been considering putting words down to this trip but honestly there were so many great moments shared between freinds that it would be doing them a disservice to try and sum them up in a few paragrahs, and I also just don’t have time right now, so pictures will have to do. These were taken with a Fuji X70 i’ve been using for a little while now and edited in Adobe Lightroom. I’m not about to pretend to be a legit photographer any time soon but its fun to shoot with a ‘real camera’ rather than a smart phone, and means the phone stays put in my bag rather then luring me in with notifications about shit that doesnt matter.