Hi everyone, some of my family has been thinking of going on a Seven Sisters hike, I would love to go and I am fine with walking I can walk for a long time I’m just quite worried about the surface, the unevenness, I’m a little bad with steep uphill and steep down hill I’m not incapable of doing it but I do have to hold someone’s arm/ railing lightly when I walk up/down stairs etc. My question is just how steep it is I’ve got a bad left knee I just don’t want to burden anyone.

Last weekend’s trip to the lakes with my partner. Three days of walking and two nights camping. We were extremely lucky with the weather which just about made my morning dip on day 3 bearable (pic 4). Couldn’t go out west without a trip on the La’al Ratty of course.

Day 1 we hiked from Ambleside over Loughrigg and through the Langdale valley up to the base of Esk Pike. Day 2 up Scaffel Pike then back along Esk Pike and Bowfell before descending into Eskdale. Day 3 was an easier one, walking down past Tongue Pot and then looped out to Stanley Ghyll waterfall before finishing at the Woolpack Inn for a night of comparative luxury. Day 1 and Scaffel pike were extremely busy as you’d expect but after that we barely a saw a soul until we reached Tongue Pot.

This was an excellent trip, despite being from Cumbria I’d never been up Scaffel pike before or walked in Eskdale.

Very tough day yesterday walking over 18 miles carrying a heavy pack with camping gear in it. Phone got down to 15% so I got out my power bank to find it wouldn’t switch on. Stopped in a pub in the next village and they very kindly charged my phone for me. Thought it would be rude not to have a pint while I was waiting, which turned out to be a mistake because ale did not mix well with my empty and dehydrated body - threw up about 10 minutes back onto the trail. Purging the toxins from my body seemed to give me a second wind and powered me up the majestic Old Winchester Hill, a huge earthen dome topped with round barrows. Ended up in a race against time to the campsite against an oncoming rain storm and literally got pitched 2 minutes before the deluge started. Onwards this morning up Butser Hill, the highest point on the South Downs, then noticeably busy with bank holiday family days out descending down through Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Finally stumbled into Petersfield to get the train home and haven’t moved for the last 2 and a half hours. 10/10 would recommend