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We have moved to the Yorkshire Dales!

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Alpine Exploratory has moved to the Yorkshire Dales, or to the edge of the National Park at any rate. The market town of Settle is our new base. Here are the new contact details:

Alpine Exploratory
7 Victoria Street
Settle
BD24 9HD
United Kingdom

Tel +44 (0)1729 823 197
Fax +44 (0)1729 822 679

This is Three Peaks country and it will be a pleasure to continue our recces in the Yorkshire Dales from Settle.

Contact us

Labels: yorkshire dales

Recces in the Yorkshire Dales

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Tuesday, 22 December 2009

For our forthcoming trip, the Yorkshire Dales Explorer, we spent an enjoyable few days in mid-December researching more walking routes.

A frost near Buckden in Wharfedale

At Hubberholme's church

Semer Water above Wensleydale

In the bottom of Arkengarthdale

Above Thwaite is a superb view down Swaledale

A close-up on the sheep

We'll be putting up full details of this trip in the coming weeks, ready for its first season in 2010.

In the pipeline

Labels: uk, yorkshire dales

Great Glen Way ready for 2010

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Our research on the Great Glen Way is complete. This is the long-distance path from Fort William to Inverness that roughly follows the Great Glen, the obvious geological fault in the Highlands. The trek is 111km or 70 miles long, runs generally over easy terrain and has limited ascent, and takes roughly 5 or 6 days. Full details will appear on a holiday page in the next few days. In the meantime please contact us to chat about the route for 2010.

A beautiful cow beside the Caledonian Canal, November 2009

Labels: great glen way, uk

Autumn on the Haute Route

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Friday, 16 October 2009

It is decidedly Autumnal in the Alps. A week of research in Switzerland brought all types of weather, as is common at this type of year: some sun but also some rain, cloud, wind and snow.

At the Meidpass, one of the passes on the way to Gruben

The wintry scene at Lac de Moiry after snowfall overnight

Gruben in the quiet Turtmanntal

The lower part of Gasenreid, above St Niklaus

For our 2010 season we will offer the routes via St Luc and Hotel Weisshorn as alternatives, giving possibilities for more atmospheric or more gentle crossings to Gruben in addition to the normal route from Zinal. Details will be on the holiday pages below, plus our forthcoming Walking Guides page to the Haute Route. Please contact us at any point to discuss the trek.

Walker's Haute Route
Walker's Haute Route (Guided)

Labels: walker's haute route

Guided trek dates in 2010

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Friday, 2 October 2009

For 2010 we will be offering three scheduled guided treks each on the Tour du Mont Blanc and Walker's Haute Route. Here are the dates:

Tour du Mont Blanc (Guided)

3-17 July 2010
31 July to 14 August 2010
4-18 September 2010

Walker's Haute Route (Guided)

17 to 31 July 2010
14 to 28 August 2010
31 August to 14 September 2010

Please contact us for more info or to book in. We are looking forward to summer 2010 already!

Labels: tour du mont blanc, walker's haute route

Exploration in the Dales borders

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Here are three photos from recent explorations in the rolling landscape between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. This is an agreeable area crossed by the Coast to Coast but otherwise overlooked in favour of the national parks on either side.

Horses above Great Asby

A lime kiln near Orton: on the Coast to Coast

A barn and sheep near the River Eden at Mallerstang

Labels: yorkshire dales

Ennerdale in the rain

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Monday, 24 August 2009

Life on the Coast to Coast is not all fun in the sun. Here's the section along Ennerdale Water yesterday, a wet and windy day in late August 2009.

Coast to Coasters in the Lakes yesterday will have met it all: rain from all angles, tricky navigation in mist and wet paths underfoot. All part of the experience!

Coast to Coast

Labels: coast to coast

A spin around Staveley

posted by Alpine Exploratory on Monday, 17 August 2009

Apologies to Buster for the unflattering, if cute, photo. Here is the beast in the rolling hinterland of Staveley, Cumbria, enjoying a good shake in the early-morning sunshine.

Labels: walking with dogs

New feature: trip reports with photos

In order to show what we and our clients are getting up to, we tentatively introduce a new type of page. This will be a page of photos for a client's trip or for a recce of ours. Please see the Images page for links. There are two pages for starters and let's see how this goes!

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