All professionals need feedback from time to time – positive as well as negative – and freelancers more than most. When, more than 20 years ago, I gave up my

“Let’s meet before dawn. That way we’ll get the best light.” As an outdoor writer, when a photographer says those words to me, I have two immediate and simultaneous responses.

The path up from Mosedale is a slog. With the depth of the snow increasing with every few feet gained, the slope feels considerably steeper and longer than I remember

I can never decide which I love more – spring or autumn. The return of colour to the landscape in May is truly uplifting; but the kaleidoscopic hues of October

In April, while much of the world was in strict lockdown, artists and writers in Cumbria were being invited to contribute to a book that would help document this unique

Since lockdown eased, the number of people walking in the countryside seems to have sky-rocketed. Strangely though, everyone’s flocking to the same places – honeypots such as Buttermere, Snowdon, the

“Sissy sticks!” I’d never heard this expression used to describe walking poles until I got chatting to a couple of walkers in the Lake District a few years ago. We