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The Kintyre Way 4-day backpack
A 4-day backpack of the Kintyre Way (KW) waymarked trail in Argyll, running through the peninsula from Southend in the south to Tarbert in the north. This is the old variant of the Kintyre Way that...
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Craig y Llyn & the Tawe Hills 3-day backpack
A 3-day route around the hills of Cwm Tawe combined with a short one-off excursion to claim Craig y Llyn, one of our two remaining hills on the 600m Sims list. Yr Allt, the other Sim hill, is traversed...
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Whinlatter & Coledale 2-day backpack
A quickly devised 2-day circuit of the northern hills of the Whinlatter Forest and the southern fells around Coledale. The outward section, designed to include my one remaining unclimbed Dewey 500m top...
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Pooley Bridge to Windermere 2-day backpack
A linear 2-day north-south hike of the far eastern fells of the Lake District, joining the line of the Roman road at Moor Divock near Pooley Bridge as far as High Street and traversing the Ill Bell...
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Southern Mawddach Way 2-day backpack
A 2-day route following the southern arm of the Mawddach Way (MW) low-to-mid level trail from Dolgellau to Barmouth, with one small modification to follow the high level track from Gellilwyd Fawr to...
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North Berwyn Way 2-day backpack
A 2-day autumn backpack of the North Berwyn Way (NBW) waymarked trail, a route traversing the heather moorland to the south of the Dee from Corwen to Llangollen. We have walked sections of the NBW on...
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Around Glencoyne 2-day backpack
A 2-day route around the hills bordering Glencoyne, starting at the popular and well maintained Aira Force woodland path. The line ascends along the slopes of Watermillock Common to Hart Side and Green...
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Northern Mawddach Way 2-day backpack
A continuation trip to our Southern Mawddach Way (MW) backpack of September 2018 to complete the trail. The weather was far superior to the cautious forecast, clear skies and unbroken sunshine...
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Hadrian’s Wall 4-day backpack
A 3½-day solo training backpack of the popular Hadrian’s Wall national trail, or Hadrian’s Way as it is signed at the eastern end near Wallsend Metro station. A weather forecast for several days of dry...
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The Dyfi Ridge 2-day backpack
A backpack of the Dyfi group of hills, a little walked ridge traverse from Dinas Mawddwy in the east to the A487 summit pass in the west, returning to Dolgellau over the low hill country north-east of...
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The Cateran Trail 3-day backpack
A 3-day solo backpack of the Cateran Trail waymarked circular route through Perthshire and the Angus glens in south-eastern Scotland, a varied low-to-mid level route following old tracks and drove...
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Llantysilio Hills & Eglwyseg 2-day backpack
A 2-day route across the Llantysilio hills to the north of the River Dee, returning via World’s End and the excellent path below the western crags of Eglwyseg Mountain. The Llangollen canal provides an...
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The Salter’s Way 2-day backpack
A solo 2-day varied linear route based on the historic pack-horse trail of a medieval salt way from its mining source at Northwich on the Cheshire plain to Saltersford Hall in the hills of the western...
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Ruabon Moors 2-day backpack
The first backpack after a 9-week recovery from the dreaded plantar fasciitis, very nearly healed now. A 2-day route traversing the Ruabon moors to the north-east of Llangollen, an extensive area of...
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Aran Ridge south-west 2-day backpack
A solo traverse of the Aran ridge from south to north, taking a new approach from the south-west to include Foel Benddin, our only unclimbed Dewey 500m summit in the range. Foel Benddin is most...
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Around Dovedale 2-day backpack
A short 2-day winter circuit of the fells around Dovedale to the south-west of Brothers Water. Late starts, short daylight hours and bus timetables greatly limit the possibilities for winter backpacks...
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CV#01 – Bridgewater Way & Transpennine Trail
The CV (CoronaVirus) lockdown has been upon us for what seems like ages but is actually just 2 or 3 weeks now. Public transport is off limits for all but essential travel for everyone, but particularly...
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CV#02 – Transpennine Trail, Bridgewater Way & Dunham Massey
The CV lockdown wears on with another three weeks announced this morning. This week has seen excellent clear sunny weather and we did a 5-mile walk on nearly deserted local leafy roads a couple of days...
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CV#03 – Sinderland & Carrington Moss
CV lockdown walk from the door #3. This circuit uses a section of the Bridgewater Way to reach the woodland park paths following Sinderland Brook westwards to the disused rail trackbed through the...
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The demise of OpenSpace
Since its launch in 2008 by the Ordnance Survey, we have used OpenSpace mapping to display our walk routes on mapping at (optimally) 1:50000 scale, older routes had only a rough digital sketch map....
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