The Weekend Fix

In this light-hearted coming-of-age tale Craig Weldon, directionless except for his love of the hills, wanders Scotland, Wales and England having fun outdoors.

This delightful book is a lively account of hill-walking in all weathers and up and down every possible terrain, braving Welsh farmers, Knoydart rain, the terrors of the Cuillin, and the real ales of Yorkshire. From Sutherland in the Far North to the rolling downs of Gloucestershire, Craig and his friends search out their Weekend Fix.

For hill walkers this is an easy guide to the hills, informative and amusing. If you’ve never been on a hill in your life this book will make you think again about the landscape around you, and the challenges to courage, determination and the human spirit to be found only a few miles from home, wherever you live in Britain.

"This book covers an incredible amount of mountain days. After all, Munros, Corbetts, Marylins are merely pegs to hang our adventures on. Without these lists we would not have had such marvellous fun, any of us. We can associate with so much here. See how much of this list you, reader, can tick: losing car keys,; climbing the wrong hill; being burned off by someone; burning off someone; drinking away the rickety car’s petrol money for homing; being shocked at the attacks of bonxies; losing contact in thick mist; leaving the map at home; table traversing in hut or bothy ... There are variants of course: Craig bivouacking on the bus roof (-10C), locked out of a bunkhouse, having been off for the Pap of Glencoe at night, pitching the tent blind in a Glen Lyon fog and in the morning finding it was in someone’s garden, or yelling obscenities across a glen only to find the figure a complete stranger. It all ‘beats Byres Road on a wet afternoon’, bevies as well as bivvies, highs as well as hardships, monstrous heat as well as over-much wet or the clutch of cold (waking in the car to find the Irn Bru frozen solid) but always the zest, the shocks of the awesome, the moments of glory given." Hamish Brown