Walking the Wainwrights… Another 9 Bagged! Making the most of every school holiday and it being May half-term, our crazy idea of a relaxing week off work was to create our own circular route…
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Taking on the Via Ferrata Xtreme at Honister Slate Mine! Located at the head of Honister Pass in the centre of the Lake District, Honister Slate Mine offers a range of indoor and outdoor…
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Returning to the Brecon Beacons National Park… Having been forced to abandon our Beacons Way thru-hike earlier this year due to extreme weather conditions across southern England and Wales, we were left feeling rather…
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Walking the Wainwrights… It’s been our favourite hike in the Lake District to date! We decided on embarking on a 12 mile circular route from Wasdale Head, the remote and picturesque valley on the far western…
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Taking A Mini Road Trip Around Classic England… After severe weather put paid to our plans of hiking the Beacons Way in Wales during the Easter holidays, ‘The Cotswolds’ became the focus for the…
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Stonehenge, Avebury & Salisbury Sightseeing… Well, what do you do when your thru-hike falls through? It might sound simple – but when it comes to hiking, always assume your Plan A won’t work –…
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(Well, in all honesty, 27 miles of it!) We’re sad to say that our thru-hike literally fell through due to extreme weather conditions – that’s what the UK is famous for, right?! The English…
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Returning To Our Favourite Spot On The Pennine Way… It doesn’t seem almost two years ago that we first encountered the magical glaciated chasm carved into the side of the Cumbrian Pennines that is…
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Taking On The Popular Yorkshire Dales Circular Walk! Feeling at peak fitness having just returned from Corsica on completion of the GR20, we decided the following weekend (maybe crazily so) that we would undertake…
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The End Is In Sight… Taking about a week to complete, Scotland’s West Highland Way is short compared to England’s toughest long distance hike ‘The Pennine Way’ (about 3 weeks) and England’s most popular…
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Rugged Scotland At Its Best… In our opinion, the West Highland Way gets better over the length of the trail, and today was arguably the most scenic day so far as the ‘beinns’ got…
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Beating The Crowds On The Westland Highway! Today was as busy as ever on the West Highland Way. Wayne has taken to calling it the ‘Westland Highway’ because of the sheer volume of people…
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Stepping on the Trail & Stepping Back In Time… Not only does the West Highland Way give you access to wander the wild and wonderful highlands of Scotland, but this beautiful and inspiring region…
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Walking Warriors v. Glamping Ramblers… Spending time in nature ‘unplugged’ as it were, is one of the great things we love about long distance hiking. No urgent emails to attend to, no time wasted…
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The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond… As one of the best known bodies of water in the world largely due to the song ‘The Bonnie, Bonnie, Banks o’ Loch Lomond’, Loch Lomond’s real…
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Use It or Lose It! It was a stiff start to Day 2 – We felt like the Tin Man from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ story – the whole of our bodies in need…