Al's Outdoor World

We had to be in Appleby today, but with a couple of hours to spare we repeated a walk we did 5or 6 years ago (we think!). The weather was ag...

Our off road ride started today from Force Forge. There was only 4 of us as we left to do a circuit of the Grizedale valley, heading first o...

Fatbikes aren't for folk who don't want to chat when they meet people on the trail. I'll soon have had my Felt Double Double 30 ...

Its been quite a few years since we've visited this picturesque sheet of water. It always reminds me of Scotland, probably because of th...

A short walk beside the sea (well sand/mud today...tide out!) from Wolf House Gallery. Lots of folk about braving the thin wind blowing from...

A last minute change of plan saw me parked in Staveley with only a very rough idea of where I was going. I knew the dry start was forecast t...

At last the rain stopped here in the South Lakes, sadly it seems to have moved a little South to Lancashire and West Yorkshire. We took the ...