Tag: hikes

• Brothers Water & High Hartsop Dodd

  

  In which I struggle up a mountain to become one with the clouds

  Walking Away

  February 24, 2023

  eastern fells, Hartsop, hike, lake district, Walk

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• Wyre Forest, part two: On the Beaten Track

  

  In which I listen for ghost trains on the disused railway and a buzzard brings me home under a grey and rainy sky

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  January 23, 2023

  Midlands, Shropshire, Walk, worcestershire

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• Wyre Forest, part one: Off the Beaten Track

  

  In which I regress to my childhood, don wellington boots and splash in the mud. The dog gets filthy.

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  January 19, 2023

  Midlands, Shropshire, Walk, worcestershire

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• Chilterns: Wendover Woods

  

  In which I explore the frosty hills of Wendover and discover the least navigable stretch of the Grand Union canal (unless you’re a duck)

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  January 15, 2023

  Walk

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• The Ridgeway: Ivinghoe Beacon

  

  In which we take an ice white walk through the woods to start the Ridgeway, and find golden nymphs dancing in the trees on Britain’s oldest trail.

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  January 3, 2023

  chilterns, Hertfordshire, Ridgeway, trig, Walk

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• Henley, Hambleden and the Great Wood

  

  In which we go in search of mistletoe and sponge cake and uncover the insidious creep of fake cows

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  December 31, 2022

  Oxfordshire, Thames, Walk

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• Great Missenden to Wendover

  

  In which we ramble through beechwoods and over hills in warm clothes, and meet Britain’s creepiest cows.

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  December 28, 2022

  Buckinghamshire, chilterns, great missenden, Ridgeway, Walk, wendover

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• The Isis (Thames), The Cherwell and The Oxford Canal

  

  In which I ramble along the river past the dreaming spires and end up two feet deep in it

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  December 15, 2022

  chilterns, Oxford, Oxfordshire

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• The Norber Erratics

  

  In which we climb a hill and wander with a herd of prehistoric beasts, a praying rabbit and a dog on a toadstool

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  December 4, 2022

  austwick, dales, malham, settle, Walk, Yorkshire

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• Edinburgh, Arthur’s Seat

  

  In which we attempt to give ourselves diabetes on top of an inner city mountain

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  November 23, 2022

  edinburgh, scotland, Walk

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