[Please note that I have updated the target amount to £5,000 from the initial £3,000 as this was reached before I had ridden half of the journey! I still have half left to do so I hope that you don't mind me increasing the target and that there may be more donations to come as I continue the challenge! Thank you!]

Those who know me know that I love the mountains, and that I am a member of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, seeking to give back something for all my years of enjoying the hills.

Sadly, a knee injury forced me into early retirement from the Team, but I can still cycle! So my parting gift to the Team is to raise funds for their welfare and social fund, by attempting to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats, but by a unique, off-road, and very mountainous route! It will be about 1,600 miles with 170,000 feet of climbing.

Most off-road routes don’t include all the UK mountain areas, and miss out the Lake District Fells, so after weeks of research I designed this route myself, to go over and/or through almost all of the major mountain areas of the UK mainland, as much as possible on tracks and off-road. I’m not rushing it though, as I want to enjoy it as much as to complete it, with stops along the way! I expect it to take nearly 3 months - during August-October 2025.

As I love the mountains, I’ve called it LEJOG…… AMOR:

A dventurous

M ountainous

O ff

R oad

It will go on mountainous terrain in:

• Dartmoor

• Exmoor

• Quantocks

• Mendips

• S Wales

• Brecon Beacons

• Cambrian Mountains

• Snowdonia

• The Berwyns

• Peak District

• Pennines

• Yorkshire Dales

• Howgills

• Lake District

• Borders

• Pentland Hills

• Campsies

• Grampians

• Highlands of Scotland

I will post updates in the update section below, and my son is putting some short clips up on instagram when he has the time: www.instagram.com/mountaingroats.

Please consider supporting me in this challenge and donate to support Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team!

THANK YOU!

PS: This is for the Team's Welfare and Social Fund, which is not able to benefit from Gift Aid, so this option is turned off.