I usually fail to write more than a few short paragraphs in my trail journal, and sometimes don’t use one at all. I enjoy writing about other people’s adventures, but I find it hard to know what to write about my own.

For a few months a year the world’s largest volume freshwater lake freezes over, providing locals and visiting cold weather fanatics the chance to drive or walk across its surface. Following in the steps of a small number of previous trekkers, a friend and I travelled to Russia to walk across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal.

In March 2025 Dan Jones and I plan to ski 200km across a frozen Lake Inari in the far north east of Finland.

In February 2024 Daniel Jones and I will head to Norway to ski around 110km from Alta on the west coast of Norway, to Karasjok on the border with Finland.

In July 2023 my regular teammate Phil Sturgeon and I will head to Greenland to hike around 200km from the foot of the second largest ice sheet in the world, to the waters of the Davis Strait.