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07/08/2024

Day three of the Swiss Alps Trek with was a HOT one!

We left Mürren after lunch (it was so nice to have a chilled morning) and headed towards Rotstockhütte which was our accommodation for the night.

I listened to the Sound of Music soundtrack for the majority of the hike which might sound cheesy but it was just the lift I needed (and was absolutely the vibe of the surrounding mountains and pastures)

There was very little signal at the hut which was nice (and weird!) but also, very little sleep by most of our group so today we’re a little worse for wear and excited for a night of slumber!

06/08/2024

Day two of trekking through the Swiss Alps with 🏔️🥾🇨🇭

We left Lauterbrunnen, after breakfast, and headed along the valley floor to the Schilthorn Cableway where we got the cable car to Gimmelwald.

Then it was a downhill stomp before an incredible steep and long climb to the summit of Tanzbodeli (or “The Dancefloor”)

It was an out and back route and once we arrived back in Gimmelwald, we jumped on another cable car which took us to Mürren where we stayed for the night!

Overall, it was a long and really hard day and there were many times I thought about giving up but I’m so glad I powered through (even if I was the back marker the whole way!)

03/08/2024

sea swims, soon to be replaced by mountain lake swims…

🇨🇭✈️👋🏼

24/07/2024

Isn’t it ironic…don’t you think?!

It’s “Self Care Day” today and I’ve decided today is the day I’m officially out of my funk! Since being ill at the beginning of the month, my mojo, drive, fun, just life in general has been sucked out of me!

Since being made redundant (yes, I’m still bitter) and going full time between the ‘gram and VA, I’ve had the best time but these past two weeks have been vile. My mood has been at an all time low, to the point that I don’t even want to go outside the house! So my self care has been finding comfort deep inside books and TV shows (with some added chocolate on the side!)

But, I’m done with that. I’m bored of that version of me. I know, it’s not that easy to just snap out of a funk but this is what I’m telling myself! So, that’s my form of self care today.

Whatever you’re doing today, however you’re feeling, remember to take care of yourself 🫶🏻

16/07/2024

It’s been a week (literally and figuratively!)

Since Wednesday evening I’ve been, on and off, ill ill ill.

In between being under the blanket on the sofa, binge watching TV and snuggling in bed with my book, I’ve also been trying to finalise wedding details (still not done and it’s six weeks away!)

I obviously haven’t been on any adventures (big or small!) and don’t really have anything to post about but I’m here to tell you, that’s ok! It’s ok if you haven’t been out and it’s ok if you’ve got bigger things to deal with than social media (cos the world is bigger than social media)

Thankfully, I’m starting to feel so much better (I even managed to go spinning today!) and I’m heading to LDN on Thursday so the only thing I need now is some sunshine…but maybe I’m pushing my luck there?!

📍Grisedale Pike

12/07/2024

Outdoor adventures featuring all of my favourite outfits

1️⃣ Hike More Worry Less Tee, Trek Shorts (black)
2️⃣ Granola Shirt, Trail Leggings (full length), Hike Bra
3️⃣ Trek Shorts (black), Hike Bra
4️⃣ Freedom Pants (black), Relax Tee (pearl grey)
5️⃣ Go Explore Hoodie (green), Stride Shorts
6️⃣ Max Stretch Skinny Outdoor Trousers (black), Smores Shirt (desert)
7️⃣ Cloud Jacket (oatmeal)
8️⃣ Go Explore Hoodie (green), Max Stretch Skinny Outdoor Trousers (graphite)
9️⃣ River Waterproof Jacket (deep khaki)

Use TARATREKS to get an additional 10% off at checkout!

*message me if you’re not sure about sizing 📏
**some items previously gifted

07/07/2024

Look, I don’t know what’s happening right now if Jupiter is in the microwave or Neptune drank the Gatorade but honestly, this mood is not a vibe!

So, I’m posting a picture of absolute joy, in the outdoors (obvs) and when the weather actually resembled something closer to summer than this dismal early autumn disaster that’s here. I know we all get bored of going on about the weather (I’m boring myself just typing this) but I’d just like a good stint of sunshine to bring my mood back to something that resembles less of a goblin.

Anyway, have a great Sunday whatever you’re going to do. I’m going to go to the garden centre to “not” buy plants 😏

02/07/2024

I’m so excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with the amazing to offer an exclusive trip for 2025!

We’ll be exploring the High Tatras, Slovakia, from 15-19 June 2025 and let me tell you, it’s going to be an incredible trip!

Here’s what’s included:
🏨 Accommodation for 4 nights
🥣 All breakfasts (the best granola I’ve ever had!)
🥾 All hikes led by a mountain leader
🛞 Off-road buggy experience
✈️ Transfers from Poprad & Krakow airports
🚐 All local transfers
⛰️ Mountain Rescue insurance

Optional extras:
🧖 an afternoon at the spa (which also has a water park 😏)
🚠 cable car/ski lift to an epic view point

This is a moderate to hard hiking trip, so a good level of fitness is required.

Early Bird Price: £945 (single occupancy) / £865 (shared* occupancy)
After 1st August: £995 (single occupancy) / £915 (shared* occupancy)

A 25% deposit is needed to secure your place and you will have the option to use a payment plan to pay for your trip with final payment due mid-April 2025.

Drop me a ⛰️ in the comments if you’d like the link (also in my bio!)…can’t wait for our adventure together!

*shared occupancy is based on same s*x sharing (or couples)

(flights, lunches & evenings meals are not included. I took €150 with me for this trip in May and came home with change)

Flights from Luton to Poprad are around £80 and from Manchester to Krakow (tick off another country!) are around £100.

24/06/2024

sunshine & cold water…a match made in heaven

what’s your favourite outdoor pairing?!

Here are a couple more of mine:
🏄‍♀️ paddleboarding & sunset 🌅
⛺️ camping & mountains ⛰️
🌊 lake days & reading 📖

10/06/2024

just a weekend full of joy

📸 caught in the act by
⛰️ the windy path towards Force Crag mine
🤳🏼 group hike gang
🐾 the real star of the weekend, Eric
🏄‍♀️ have SUP, will paddle
😁 unrivalled joy
🎊 not Everest, but Braithwaite
👯‍♀️ group hike girls
⛰️ the path towards Grisedale Pike
🩱 have swimmers, will swim

What did your weekend look like?

02/06/2024

As the weather improves, I find myself less inclined to head for the mountains.

Maybe it’s the crowds? Or maybe it’s because I don’t feel that fit right now and I’m carrying a little extra weight (not just in my rucksack!) Perhaps I’m just getting lazy?!

I know only I can change how I feel, but I want you all to know that we can all feel a bit “meh” sometimes, no matter how we choose to spend our time or what we post on social media.

So please, don’t set your standards based on what I do. I post to inspire you to explore, be outdoors, be happy, and be real. Even if you just sit in your garden (for me, it’s my balcony!) with your morning cuppa, that time outdoors can make a world of difference to your day.

I’m excited for what the future holds over the next few weeks, in all aspects of life. But first, here’s to spending more time feeling good about ourselves 🫶🏻

31/05/2024

This MAY have been my best month yet…

See what I did there?!

2024 has been a whirlwind but an adventure nonetheless and I can’t wait to see what June, July, August and the rest of 2024 brings!

✨Positive vibes only here ✨

From 1 to 10, here’s May:

💚 solo local lunchtime yomps
🤷🏼‍♀️ honestly, no words only love (and so much of it 🥹)
🌬️ what happens when you let your hair down in the outdoors…
🐮 will try to pet ALL animals
👸🏼 she encourages the bougie/boujie
✌🏼 camp side selfie
🏔️ some of the Tatra Gang
📷 candid photos are my fave
🌊 water bebe
🚈 absolutely love a train journey

28/05/2024

Bagging this trig was similar to my job search; arduous, tedious, extremely undulating and unnecessary (if I hadn’t been made redundant, yes, I’m still VERY bitter)

But I did both, bagged the trig and got a job (not on the same day!)

Cold beans are off the menu!

Also, please look at how I had to get to this trig (swipe across) and the joy when I managed to grab hold!

22/05/2024

it’s incredible what the alpine air does to your soul ✨🏔️🫶🏻

The High Tatras are the only alpine mountains along the whole 746 miles of the Carpathisn mountain range and with a multitude of peaks over 2500m it truly is a hikers paradise

What are you waiting for?! You know you want to be here!

20/05/2024

Day two of started with a short walk to the train station and catching the train into the mountains 🚞

We arrived in the town of Stroské Pleso and began our hike up to Skok Waterfall.

Legend has it that the waterfall started from a girl’s tears (isn’t it always 🤷🏼‍♀️), over a chamois (🐐) poacher who died here

The terrain was rocky but not too steep and the weather was kind to us (even though heavy downpours were predicted!)

The High Tatras are breathtakingly beautiful and the water is so clear and crisp but it is illegal to swim in the national park (I’m gutted but I get it and respect it)

19/05/2024

After the atrocity of last night, I arrived in Slovakia exhausted!

I actually considered whether to go on day one’s activities of the trip or to stay at the hotel and sleep but I’m so glad I went! After all, I might only get one chance to water raft down the Dunajec and walk across a bridge to Poland for ice cream!

Finished off with a beautiful pasta dish at the hotel and heading to bed before 7:30pm, it’s been a great first day in Slovakia!

17/05/2024

New to wild camping? Me too!

Over the past 12 months I’ve learnt to pack lighter and smarter. However, these are some of my non-essential essential items that always make it into my backpack!

⛺️ home sweet tent
☕️ sachet coffee - I know, it’s not refined but it’s easy, quick and light
💡 tiny cube light - I hang this on a hook in my tent and it casts light all over the tent
📖 my kindle - because honestly, I’d be lost without it! And when I can’t sleep, at least I can read!
🤫 ear plugs - in case it’s windy or you have a camp mate who snores! Thanks to for the recommendation on these ear plugs!
🔥 hand warmers - these ones are great because they’re air activated meaning you just rip open the packet and they warm up. They stay warm through the night (I used these in Finland!) but I also have some rechargeable ones that second as a power bank!
🎵 earphones - for when you really can’t sleep but too tired to read, listen to music!

What are your non-essential essentials for a camp?

13/05/2024

Today will forever be known as many miles Monday!
outdoors & I set off for a hike (planned, routed, maps, the works) and decided to ignore it after a certain point in search of waterfalls…

12.66 miles later, we made it back to the cars that we left at 10am this morning!

Blisters galore, depleted body batteries, wet feet and a hitchhiking tick are only part of the story but today definitely left me with a soul full of joy and a peaceful mind (and thankful that I don’t have to get up early tomorrow!)

09/05/2024

Just dropping in to say “I’m still here!”

My get up and go has got up and gone with pretty much everything over this past week (since coming back to reality) and that includes getting outside which annoys me because I know that it would help my mood!

Staying positive, making plans, getting my steps in, enjoying the sunshine; one step at a time.

Throwback to this time last week when I was searching out a possible local(ish) camp spot and enjoying my lunch in the great outdoors.

Wearing my favourite brand of fleece
*gifted with no obligation to post

04/05/2024

It feels like an age since my birthday, since Portugal, since I had a job (😂) and since I was at this beaut swim spot, so I’m giving myself something to look forward to…the next group hike!

This one is going to be in The Lake District (still female only, sorry lads) on Saturday 8th June.

All of the details can be found on my eventbrite page (link in bio!) including how to book!

Can’t wait to see you there (oh and for more adventures, swims and continuing to live my best unemployed life!)

30/04/2024

it’s my birthdaaaay…

another trip around the sun and another amazing chapter added to the book called life

can’t wait to see what adventures the next 12 months has in store

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**us

25/04/2024

I’m heading back up to The Lakes today and you’d better believe I’m taking my winter hat and swimmers with me!

I’m pretty sure I never go on a hike/jaunt/adventure without packing my swimmers (I have been known to pack swimmers over a hat though…🙃)

23/04/2024

Hands up who loves a solo trip 🙌🏼

Don’t get me wrong, I love going on trips with the girl gang and taking holidays with Daniel but this trip was SOLO MIO!

This was actually my first ever, proper, solo trip! I’ve travelled to places on my own and met up with strangers as a group but as for actual solo, this was my first time and it was amazing!

If you’re wondering about taking a solo trip, why not go somewhere you can drive to, so that if you’re unsure, you can come home as soon as you want!

I stayed in during my time in Cornwall (post about the accommodation coming soon!) and it was in the perfect location to explore all of these amazing spots!

📍 St Anthony Head
📍 Porthcurno Beach
📍 Porthtowan Tidal Pool
📍 Godrevy Lighthouse
📍 St Michaels Mount
📍 Marazion Beach
📍 Ferry back from St Mawes
📍 Shipwreck, Sennen Cove
📍 Natural (and actual) Lands End
📍 Wheal Coates, St Agnes Head

19/04/2024

just another day, living my best unemployed mermaid life 🧜🏼‍♀️

don’t misunderstand this as me not panicking and stressing out about the fact I was made redundant and have no job or taking this trip for granted, that’s not what this is. what this is, is me trying to make the best of a terrible situation and honestly, it’s been an incredible week so far and I have Lou & Ben to thank for that 💚

16/04/2024

see trig, must bag it

Today was my first full day in Cornwall and whilst I wanted to start off slow, I was wide awake at 6am and applying for jobs by 6:15am!

I had a catch up with the amazing Lou from and we spoke about all the great places to visit in and around the area and St Agnes was my top pick…possibly because Lou told me all about the incredible sausage rolls you can get

It’s only a 25 minute drive from here and I knew I’d be heading along the South West Coast Path, towards St Agnes Head but didn’t have a route (was planning on an out and back)

When I saw the trig of St Agnes Beacon and Wheal Coates mining ruins in the distance, I knew I had to make a circular route for myself which I did on the Maps app - swipe to see my route (and I’ll link it in my stories & highlights!)

The coastal path is phenomenally beautiful but it was also incredibly windy today (maybe it is every day, it is being thwacked by the Atlantic day in, day out!) and I’ll definitely be heading back on to the coastal path before my trip ends!

📍 St Agnes Beacon

15/04/2024

Last Monday was all about the office routines, this Monday is all about the unexpected adventure!

Talk about a rollercoaster week 🎢

12/04/2024

*Life Update*

I love the sunrise more than a sunset. A sunset seems so final, it’s the end and then darkness comes. With the sunrise comes hope, day break, a new beginning.

You’ve probably noticed I’ve been deathly silent on social media this week and that’s because on Monday, I was made redundant.

I’ve been trying to process it, understand it and even reason with it but apparently, I haven’t been able to do that. I’m not sure when it’s going to hit me that I’m actually now unemployed. I feel like I’m about to get on a raft that will take me out to sea and I’ll need to find my way back to the safety of the shore but without an oar or engine!

Who knows what the next few weeks will bring? I certainly don’t but what I do know is that I’m going to use this time to fill my soul with all things that make me feel good; be in the outdoors; go swimming; go camping (weather permitting) whilst also job hunting!

Everything happens for a reason so I guess I just need to roll with it (not that I have any other choice!)

06/04/2024

Definitely won’t be doing this, this weekend!

Storm Kathleen is heading in but before the rain settles (till the end of forever!) I’m heading out today! I’m staying low with the route I’ve planned and it’s somewhere I haven’t visited before! I’ll let you know the details if it’s a good ‘un (I make no promises 😂)

I’d love to hear what you do when the weather is too rough to head to the mountains!

04/04/2024

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Outfit features the new Stride Shorts with not one, not two but THREE pockets, anti-slip waistband and reflective details; the Hike Bra with its multi-way straps; and the brand new 100% organic cotton Hike More T-Shirt

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01/04/2024

weekend plans that look like this…

a perfect, sunny bank holiday sunday spent with hiking and wild camping in the lakes

pic 6 - is this what it feels like to be a snail?! 🐌

👯‍♀️🥾⛰️☀️🏕️💕✨

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The incredible news… Over the past four days, two women have told me that I’ve inspired them in the outdoors 🥹 The first via DM, thanking me for everything I do on “the gram” to help her become more confident, a less insecure hiker and that she can now say no to rainy day hikes! And the second, a neighbour, who just needed to know that the outdoors was still there for her even if she hadn’t had time to visit recently. I love doing what I do outdoors and sharing it here but to know that I’ve inspired two women to spend time outdoors just from being honest, real and authentic fills my soul with so much pride. Keeping it real since 1987 👋🏼 #grateful #inspiring #inspiringwomenintheoutdoors #womenoutdoors #womenoutdoorsuk #getoutdoors #exploremore #authentic #keepingitreal #relatable #outdooradventures #getoutside #inspiringwomen #facetime #proud #proudmoment #beyou #bereal #outdoorwomen #girlsoutdoors

Snowy Stoodley ❄️ Stoodley Pike is a monument on the hills above Todmorden and Hebden Bridge and there are so many great walks that will lead you there! If you’re looking for a short walk then head up from the nearby reservoir and it’ll take you around 30-40 minutes (depending on your walking speed) If you’re looking for a longer walk then there’s a 10-mile loop that you can start from Hebden Bridge! The views are endless on a crisp winters day but the wind is relentless in bad weather. If you’re not familiar with the area, I would advise waiting for a clear day to check it out. You can pinpoint Stoodley Pike on OS Maps with grid reference: SD 973 242 Enjoy! 🥾❄️🤍 #stoodleypike #stoodleypikemonument #gridreference #osmaps #getoudoors #getoutside #snow #hikinguk #todmordenwalks #hebdenbridgewalks

the 6am alarm was definitely worth it 🌅 #sunrise #winter #wintersunrise #getoutdoors #weekendadventurer #getoutside #adventure #adventurer #yourwales #outdooradventures #your_outdooradventures

I think I like this little life… On Friday, I drove seven(ish) hours to Cornwall so that I could experience all of this yesterday! ✨ Meeting amazing, likeminded women ✨ Learning from the incredible @instafluenceruk ✨ Being in the outdoors @kudhva ✨ Eating delicious food Instagram has brought me so many amazing experiences, friendships and challenges so if you’re thinking about doing it, here’s your sign…DO IT! ✨ #getoutdoors #getoutside #wildswimming #newexperiences #womenintheoutdoors #friendships #outdoorsing

anticipating the unseen If I have a bag, I have my tripod and this is exactly why! 🌊 #tripod #capture #reel #reelsinstagram #alwaysbeprepared #prepared #noshame #reelitfeelit #skopelos #beautiful #amazing #greece #outdooradventures #adventure #adventurer #getoutside #getoutdoors #befree #behappy #beyou #holiday #vacation #holidayspam #explorenewplaces #adventureisoutthere

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