Back On Track

Walking 500 miles between the highest mountains in Wales, England, and Scotland

In 2019, I was approaching the three-year anniversary of a bad rock-climbing accident where I fell 40 ft down the Avon Gorge and broke my back and both feet. Once I had recovered enough, I decided to take on a challenge, by climbing Snowdon, Scafell Pike, and Ben Nevis, and walking all the way between them, to raise money for Spinal Research. This blog documents how it went.

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Posts

• Introduction
• Planning and doing
• Day 0: How do you get to Wales in a train?
• Day 1: Summertime on Snowdon
• Day 2: The Stranger
• Day 3: No Picnic
• Day 4: The Man in the Pub
• Day 5: The March of Industry
• Day 6: You’ll Never Walk Alone
• Day 7: Coasting
• Day 8: Apples, Pals, and Puddles
• Day 9: Pressing on through Preston
• Day 10: Plod
• Day 11: Still Water
• Day 12: You’re Gonna Carry That Weight
• Day 13: Ambleside
• Day 14: Blea Tarn and the Sticklebarn
• Day 15: Up and Over
• Day 16: The Gauntlet
• Day 17: The Way to Carlisle
• Day 18: Bordering on Misery
• Day 19: Changing Tack
• Days of Recovery, Part 1
• Day 20: Southern Upland Wayfarers
• Day 21: Lead Ahead
• Day 22: The Falls of Clyde
• Day 23: Old Man River
• Days of Recovery, Part 2
• Day 24: The Start of the End
• Day 25: Bonnie Bonnie Banks
• Day 26: The Low Road
• Day 27: Anniversary
• Day 28: The Great Pass
• Days of Recovery, Part 3
• Day 29: Ben Nevis
• Rounding up

Contact me at alasdair.wj.robertson@gmail.com