7 Years of Walking, on camera

2004-2011 It doesn’t seem that long ago, the day I stepped off on the North Downs Way on my first ever days trailwalk.  Over seven years later and 10 trails completed, it seemed like  a good idea to revisit some of them with a potted photographic history.  Having had a guddle around on You Tube [...]

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St Cuthberts Way

St Cuthberts Way Day 5 – Kyloe to Lindesfarne – via Pilgrims Path The final day of the walk started with grey, but thankfully dry sky (we were yet to discover our planning faux pas).  We had a little time to kill, with only a short walk of 4 or 5km to the Causeway and [...]

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St Cuthberts Way

St Cuthberts Way – Day 4 Wooler – Kyloe – Approx 20km This was to be a slightly shorter day for us, a decision made due to the tide tables which dictate safe crossing times to Lindesfarne.  We had decided that the days walk would cut things a little fine to cross so we would [...]

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St Cuthberts Way

St Cuthberts Way – Day 3 Kirk Yetholm – Wooler –  approx 13 miles One thing I forgot to mention about the previous day was the rather spectacular hill fort that could clearly be seen from the top of Wideopen hill, perched somewhat clumsily on top of Hownam Law.  These hill forts were to become [...]

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St Cuthberts Way

St Cuthberts Way – Day 2 Harestanes to Kirk Yetholm – approx 16 miles A fairly early start from the campsite saw us up and packed by 8 am, ready for the bus back to Harestanes – another Munro’s bus, but this time with a very accommodating driver who very kindly let us off the [...]

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St Cuthberts Way

St Cuthberts Way Day 1 Melrose to Harestanes (Ancrum) The St Cuthberts Way was to be my third trail of the year.  Even after studying the guidebook and website I had developed some preconceived ideas about the trail, a cross border route from Melrose to Lindesfarne. The way is named after the 7th Century Monk [...]

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Dales Way

Day 5 Dent – Grayrigg (07/04/10) Lets start with the campsite.  Easy access from the Dalesway, it is right on the town and as the photo above shows, it’s in quite an outstanding location.  It was £4 a night for a pitch too, which isn’t bad.  The owners of the site, while being a tad [...]

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Dales Way

Day 4 Swarthgill Farm – Dent (06/04/10) We started this day fully expecting to get another soaking.  Again the great walking gods played with us, content to blast us with an icy wind blowing right up the valley.  For some reason I had assumed that the track up to Swarthgill would carry on up to [...]

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Dales Way

Day 3 Kettlewell – Swarthgill Farm (05/04/10) The decision to stay at the hostel proved to be an inspired one.  As we had breakfast it became apparent that, not only had it been raining for some time, it had been raining pretty heavily.  Putting the tent down in that would have been horrible! What on [...]

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Dales Way

Day 2 Appletreewick – Kettlewell (04/04/10) Despite it being a bit chilly, it had been a fairly comfortable night under canvas.  A little bit of late night rain had given way to clean, very crisp morning, although there were a few threatening clouds about that would linger for most of the day. Again this was [...]

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