A photo taken down by the lake on Boxing Day

Paul Ross holding Nettle, Marea with Bess, Pete with Bella and Dennis with two retired hound trailers.

Some of you may remember the old days of Keswick Rambles when Paul Ross was one of our leaders and then he decamped to Colorado for about 14 years, well he is back and still keeping Jack Russell terriers so we all went for a hike together for old time's sake. Paul is still a very active climber and he is well known around here for putting up many new routes on the local crags and also loads of them in the US too.

We have also confirmed the hikes we are doing for the Keswick Mountain Festival 2014 and the dates for that are 15th to 18th May.  The organisers have cut the festival down from 5 days to only 4 so it starts on the Thursday until the Sunday.  I will post up the hikes very soon but there are not as many hike providers as in previous years so you may find that you need to book well ahead to make sure of your place. Don't say I didn't warn you.

St George's Day last year outside the Moot Hall

This is an old sailing chum from Nichol End who also likes to parade about in his medals and why not for heaven's sake.  When do our ex servicemen get a chance to show off the brass? He looks very dapper too, so thanks Jim for letting me take your photo last year.

I just wanted to remind you all that in the not too distant future the KR team will be doing the standing outside the Moot Hall with our A Board and hoping that some of you will be turning up for the guided walks.

I am still working on the KR website, (all day yesterday) and probably most of today, but it's taking shape folks. As soon as I give it the ok I will update it as most of you know the one I did last year was a 'quicky' because Terry Lowe left us and left doing the site too with just a static dog sat there.......People were ringing us up saying the site was not working ...... Anyway, that's all in the past and we managed to get the site back from Terry.  So it will be newer and fresher and I hope you like it when you see it. But do please keep following this blog too as it is always a thrill to read your comments and it is so much better to know you are out there reading this.