2023: A Year in Review
I started writing this before the New Year, but it's taken longer than I expected. So here we are, deep into January and I am finally posting my review of 2023. It has been a good year as far as getting outdoors goes. I hammered last year's Wainwright tally. The wild camps have been a bit scarcer this year, with only two recorded. I had my two annual trips to camp sites, one the National Trust site in Langdale and the other Low Hollows near Threlkeld. This year I made my first foray into fellrunning, doing an 8 miler on the moors of Todmorden and the Yorkshire Half Marathon. At the end of the post, I write about some of my plans for 2024. Fell Walking I'll start with the non-Wainwrights, which categorise the minority of fells conquered this year. I began early, on New Year's day, with the miniature Billinge Hill, a wooded hill accessible from Witton Park in Blackburn. This small hill is noted for its Wainwright monument a short walk away from the summit (Wainwright was