About Me
Me near PenyGhent, North Yorkshire
Hi, I’m Mark and this blog is mostly about hikes I’ve done or things I’ve come across related to long walks or hikes that I think are good to share with others.
My dog Brodie overlooking some of Saddleworth Moor
I got into longer walks / hikes at the end of 2010 as a way of getting fit, flipping the bird at hereditary high blood pressure (hypertension) I had been diagnosed with and also (at last) making the most of the hills I’d been surrounded by for the last 20 years – the Marsden and Saddleworth moors area of northern England.
Hiking is a great way to get healthy without the crash course route of taking up midlife running (which I think may well have ended in a cardiac for me!).
My local hills walks are with my lovely (albeit, a bit daft sometimes) dog Brodie, as featured on the photo on this page. I’m not sure who walks who actually.
Moors Walkers – me and my walking buddy – I set the camera on self timer as we never get to be in the same photo
I’ve also started a sketchy bucket list of challenges I’d like to do around hiking / trekking.
2011 included a hike up Snowdon (some photos here on my Flickr Set ) , a hike up Scafell Pike and the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge (raising over £300 for The Red Cross, which I was chuffed with).
I’d love to do a high mountain trek but I’ve been kinda snow-phobic since I fell down a mountain many years ago. Which is a real shame but it was a big fall to be fair, 300 metres / 900 feet of snow, ice and thankfully, not so many rocks. I still vividly recall the toboggan run that was me without a toboggan.
Buy me a drink and I’ll tell you the whole story but in essence it put me off climbing or hiking high, snowy places. It is on my bucket list though to go skiing again and also to do some alpine treks.
Some more about me in general here:
If you have a twitter account feel free to follow me and say hi here:
http://www.twitter.com/markkelly333
Some photos of the area I live in are here over on Flickr:
and more general info about me is here:
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- The Misty Mountain .. a walk up Snowdon May 5, 2013
- Yorkshire 3 Peaks 2013 for Simon On The Streets April 28, 2013
- Planning a Ridgeway walk March 31, 2013
- Kit Test : NO-AD suncream March 30, 2013
- A Roman Road circular hike .. the oxymoronic post March 20, 2013
- Snowdon In the Snow 2013 February 15, 2013
- A snowy slog on Swellands – Marsden Moor January 28, 2013
- Swellands hike – checking a Walkers Are Welcome new route January 6, 2013
- Intake Head walk – some guide map checking December 30, 2012
- A Boxing Day ramble with ‘health giving breezes’ .. December 26, 2012
I love this blog, please keep up the good work! I especially enjoy your photos. I’ve enjoyed reading about the Yorkshire countryside in books by James Harriot but I have never had the opportunity to see photos until finding your blog.
That’s nice feedback thanks Hettie, it can be pretty bleak with the mist and rain but also really green or at times purple with the heathers in season and some amazing sweeping vistas.
I may add some more photos of my part of Yorkshire at some point. I had a look at your blog and liked it – bookmarked to read in more depth
Oops, spelt Hetty wrong.. I’m sorry! Or is it Hetty Mae as one name? Now I’m curious
Lovely blog and great photographs. Wold you like to be involved in the South Pennines Walk and Ride Festival – you could give a talk/workshop about blogging? Or you could do something else that you’d like to do?
That’s great feedback, thanks Jan.
I’m out and about today so I’ll look at the festival info later but that sounds really interesting thanks