A journal from the hills and coast, and home to the Hartsop Hop and Tour of Pendle fell races, as well as the award-winning guidebook, Northern Horizons.

about Northern Horizons
about Northern Horizons

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HILL RUNNING

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RUNNING THROUGH TIME
RUNNING THROUGH TIME

From Le Buet to the Col de la Terrace is a climb of 5,000ft. I’d run it’s entirerity in thick clag, the widely spaced switch backs in the forest eventually giving way to a steep rise to the col. Sensing blue skies beyond, I turned for the summit to the south...

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SOUTH FROM SCOURIE
SOUTH FROM SCOURIE

A northerly swell had been running at more than three metres for days and plans for the north coast had changed, changed again, and finally been abandoned on sight of the heavy surf…

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Thieveley PIKE 2026
Thieveley PIKE 2026

It was eight years ago that I last raced Thieveley Pike - the weather that year was much the same as this year and that of 2025, but that’s where the similarities seemed to end…

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FELL RACES

Tour of Pendle fell race
TOUR OF PENDLE 2026 - entries open
Hartsop Hop fell race
HARTSOP HOP 2027

NORTHERN HORIZONS

Launched at the Fort William Mountain Festival 2025, and published by Scottish Mountaineering Press Northern Horizons features a collection of essays and challenging fell and hill running routes across Scotland and Northern England.

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“…Woven with human and geologic history, its celebration of the primal act of moving amongst mountain landscapes is second only to the enduring grandeur of these places.”

Finlay Wild