This blog is about my time spent in the mountains. I go hillwalking, scrambling, mountaineering and easy-grade rock climbing. I’ve also been known to keep a couple of tick lists, one of which is complete (the Wainwrights) and one of which is half way there (the Munros). I go away throughout the year.
In the early spring of 2011, fotopic.net went offline. I had used the service for around seven years when it went, and was a little annoyed that I now needed to find a new home to put photos online. It also made me think about my audience: fellow hillwalkers wanted to see photos from the trip, and family and friends probably wanted to read a little about what I was up to, something for which fotopic had never really been that good. Having explored several options, I was swayed by several very good hillwalking blogs that this might be an appropriate way of recording my time in the mountains. I’ll do my best to upload a trip report after my trips away with CUHWC, the Old Duffers and others friends. Each report includes some in-text images, which you can click on to view, and there is also a slideshow at the bottom of each page. I’ve had a bit of trouble with the stability of the slideshow, but hopefully it works well on your system. Non-CUHWC members might also be interested in some galleries from club members, linked on the right. If nothing else, their photographs are often of a far higher standard than mine!
Michael Fordham
