The Big Walks Club has been set up by a group of friends, inspired by the Ken Wilson's Big Walks and Classic Climbs books, to help us enjoy the mountain experience.

This site provides information for Club members about expedition dates and venues, as well as reports and photographs from previous trips. Planned trips are given on the Website at Trip List.

Trip Reports are posted on the website as they happen. Trips have included the Cuillin Ridge Traverse, Cairngorm 4000s, Traverse of the Grey Corries, Aonachs and Ben Nevis, Mont Blanc, the GR20 in Corsica, Dolomites Via Ferrata, Mallorca Mountain Trek as well as some classic climbs.

Video films have been made of the bigger trips. If you would like a DVD please go to Trip Reports for details of how to get hold of copies.

A section giving Useful Links is provided for information on weather and routes.

Please leave an e-mail  message if you want any more information about the routes we have completed or if you would like to join us in the Mountains.  It's great  to hear from like minded souls.

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The main trip of 09 was to the Brenta Alps in the Dolomites in early September. The route traversed the Brenta range using a series of Via Feratta climbs giving 4 days in some of the most dramatic rock scenery in the world. For details and pictures of the climbs go to the Brenta traverse page. 

The main trip for 2010 will be to walk the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The route starts in Yosemite and ends on the top of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the 48 States. A real wilderness experience, requiring load carrying of 8-10 days food, this will be a big logistical as well as physical challenge.

David, Big Walks Club Webmaster, spent April 2007 to April 2008 working in Lima, Peru. Information on a really interesting and fulfilling year can be found on the One Year in Peru  website.