Category: Stories
PEAK WAY Long Distance Path
Posted on March 20, 2022 by Ken Reece
Hello fellow hikers. I’m Ken Reece and I’ve been a keen walker for about 40 years now – most of this has been in the Peak District. As well as the thousands of day walks I’ve enjoyed, I’ve also completed several of the UK’s… Continue Reading “PEAK WAY Long Distance Path”
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Centenary Way – Part 5
Posted on March 5, 2021 by markahalliwell
WAY’S END Shirley to Ashbourne, by Mark Halliwell [Back to start] It dawned a fabulous day for my last leg of the Centenary Way, and the first half of the section from Shirley to Ashbourne turned out to be a highlight of the whole… Continue Reading “Centenary Way – Part 5”
Category: StoriesTags: Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
Centenary Way – Part 4
Posted on March 4, 2021 by markahalliwell
BRAILSFORD AND THE BONNIE PRINCE Mercaston to Shirley, by Mark Halliwell [Next page] The next opportunity I had to hike was a fine day, but it began grey and cool. The other days’ hikes had been around 13 miles, but this was over 15,… Continue Reading “Centenary Way – Part 4”
Category: StoriesTags: Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
The Centenary Way, Derbyshire
Posted on March 1, 2021 by markahalliwell
ESCAPE FROM 2020! by Mark Halliwell, January 2021 [Next page] I hadn’t really meant to do the Centenary Way, at least not yet. But I’m so glad I did! I’d hiked for as many years as I could remember. I’d started walking as a… Continue Reading “The Centenary Way, Derbyshire”
Category: StoriesTags: Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
Centenary Way – Part 1
Posted on March 1, 2021 by markahalliwell
NATURE IN ABUNDANCE Ilkeston to Stanley Brook, by Mark Halliwell [Next page] The Centenary Way starts on West End Road in the south-west of Ilkeston, at its crossroads with Oakwell Drive (B6007). I’d reached Ilkeston on a blue-sky day by walking out eastwards parallel… Continue Reading “Centenary Way – Part 1”
Category: StoriesTags: Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
Centenary Way – Part 3
Posted on February 15, 2021 by markahalliwell
WEST TO WESTON Duffield to Mercaston, by Mark Halliwell [Next page] The privilege of living adjacent to the beautiful Derwent Valley meant it was no hardship to return to the river at the Bridge Inn for the start of the next leg. Pausing for… Continue Reading “Centenary Way – Part 3”
Category: StoriesTags: Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
Centenary Way – Part 2
Posted on February 15, 2021 by markahalliwell
THE THREE WAYS Stanley Brook to Duffield, by Mark Halliwell [Next page] I was now totally with it on the Centenary Way! A four-day working week brought about by Covid-19 had the fringe benefit of giving me more days to hike. A fine day… Continue Reading “Centenary Way – Part 2”
Category: StoriesTags: trail post, trails, trekking, Uk hiking, Uk hiking midlands east, Uk hiking peaks and penines
Cotswolds Way — Dan Outdoors
Posted on August 22, 2020 by Dan Outdoors
Im still not used to this whole writing thing yet but im gettting there I think. Recently I completed the Cotswolds Way, for those of you unsure of what one of them is, its a 102 mile national trail in the UK. It starts… Continue Reading “Cotswolds Way — Dan Outdoors”
Category: StoriesTags: thru hiking
Gear Review: Zpacks Arc Blast 55L backpack
Posted on August 22, 2020 by Dan Outdoors
Zpacks Arc Blast
Category: Gear, StoriesTags: Andrew McCluggage, ultralight, zpacks
Beatrix Potter Lake DistrIct
Posted on June 29, 2020 by roguepuffin86
Starting at Wray Castle, here she spent her first holiday in 1882 at 16 when Dalguise in Scotland was no longer available.It’s here she met Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, a vicar of Wray, who was one of the founding Secretaries of the National Trust, who… Continue Reading “Beatrix Potter Lake DistrIct”
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