Fiona Reynolds

Arnside and Silverdale: A landscape on par with the Lake District in its beauty and significance

People often miss the delightful landscape of Arnside and Silverdale as they hare off to the Lake District.

Cnicht, Snowdonia: If you only climb one mountain in your life, it should be this one

Walking The Burren, Co Clare: A place of curved hills, acres of open limestone and a landscape in which to lose oneself

Fiona Reynolds eats her words about regular walkers avoiding showers during the wettest months she can remember.

Walking St Cuthbert's Way in late summer: Heather in late-summer emperor’s purple, lit up by the last burst of warmth

The Cheviots and St Cuthbert’s Way are the right setting for reflection and remembrance, as Fiona Reynolds finds on her latest walk.

Walking the 79-mile Dales Way: 'The Wharfe is full and raging; we’re getting worried messages as people hear about the mayhem'

Torrential rain swells the River Wharfe as Fiona Reynolds embarks on a 79-mile walk along the Dales Way, just one step ahead of the floods.

Walking Derby and the Derwent Valley, on a morning with 'dappled light on the river reflecting the monumental 18th-century mills'

Fiona Reynolds walks the Derwent Valley Heritage Way in Derbyshire, and is struck by the contrast between Man and Nature.

A walk through the Forest of Bowland: 'I feel the immensity of the history of this place and am deeply moved by it'

A solitary dawn walk through the Forest of Bowland is a magical experience, says Fiona Reynolds.

Climbing Ben Stack: A perfect, conical mountain whose paths are adorned with bluebells, violets and orchids

Fiona Reynolds takes time out during a trip to Scotland to climb one of its most beautiful little peaks: Ben Stack.

Walking Exmoor: 'The views open out and there's just me, a lone figure in an immense, almost featureless landscape'

Fiona Reynolds walks in the footsteps of Lorna Doone and finds that there’s still a feeling of wilderness out on Exmoor.

Fiona Reynolds: A walk on the Suffolk coast that brings home the true horror of the new plans for Sizewell

A few months after writing about a development at Otmoor, Fiona Reynolds visits the beautiful Suffolk coast — and can't quite believe how the proposed new work will tear up this idyllic landscape.

Climbing the Sugar Loaf, the irresistibly perfect mountain in a ‘wild and lovely’ setting

The Sugar Loaf in Wales’s Black Mountains is a satisfying little peak to conquer, as Fiona Reynolds explains.

Otmoor, the majestic Oxfordshire landscape that inspired Lewis Carroll, under threat once more