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Snaizeholme red squirrels: included in a ten mile circular walk.

By Hugh Stewart November 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

Also with a visit to the source of the River Ribble and involving a km of pathless moorland. The Snaizeholme valley is a southern offshoot of Widdale, between Ribblehead and Hawes. The red squirrel refuge in the Snaizeholme Woods, and the trail and viewing area were set up by the owners of Mirk

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A Woodbridge walk.

By Hugh Stewart October 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

This must be in various publications, but I'm making no apologies, as it is a remarkably pleasant town and estuary walk of 6.5miles. Starting from the car park near Wilford Bridge over the Deben (having come back from Sutton Hoo?), gain the river embankment and go downstream on it, past a small

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Sheffield Pike the quiet way.

By Hugh Stewart August 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Not the cleverest choice of walk on a post lockdown August Tuesday with a good forecast, so no parking in the car park at Glenridding, nor above the Travellers Rest, where there appear to be twenty new residents with invisible houses. So by chance, as we had to park up the main road on a good

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Addition to High Cup Nick walk.

By Hugh Stewart August 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

That is "High Cup Nick, shortened version of walk 23 ", from 12th Sept 2018. The addition is to see the interesting floral limestone gully, Maizebeck scar, adding just over a mile. From the Nick, follow the obvious path of the Pennine Way, and descend to cross Maize Beck beyond Watch Hill and turn

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Nenthead Nuttalls 2: Dead Stones and Flinty Fell.

By Hugh Stewart July 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

Continuing the dialling down from big Nuttall walks like 5 of them on the Burnhope Reservoir round, this takes the northern most of that round, Dead Stones, and adds Flinty Fell, to make an easy 7.9 mile round with some interest. That comes right at the start as, starting from the car park in

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Nenthead Nuttalls 1: The Dodd and Killhope Law.

By Hugh Stewart July 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

If you, like us, don't fancy 13.5 miles of moor bog trotting to bag three "Nuttalls", as their book chapters 10.1 and 10.2 do, these two walks allow two each and shorten the moor walking. For the first we started at Killhope Cross, at 623m actually higher than The Dodd, and followed the fence over

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Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle Railway Stations

24 walks into the hills surrounding the historic and iconic Settle to Carlisle railway, based on the stations between Settle and Appleby. The area has some of the finest walking of the north Pennines: the Craven district around Settle; the Three Peaks area; Dentdale, and Mallerstang and the upper Eden valley.

£12.95 (P&P may apply)

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Mountain Biking Adventures: Multi-day Routes in Northern Britain

Over the last two decades, mountain biking has developed enormously as a “sport”. We greatly admire the technical and athletic capabilities of modern day mountain bikers and recognise that many excellent guides have been written and custom-built trails set up. In this guide we try to reopen a sense of adventure and wilderness to mountain biking, providing multi-day routes with a remoteness, continuity and “arc” missing from many modern guides with their focus on day and half day outings.

UK £13.95 ( inc. P&P)

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Settle to Carlisle – Hill Walk with Return by Classic Train Route

With over 22,000 ft of ascent in 105 miles set out over 8 days, this walk sets out from Settle, taking in the classic summits of the North Yorkshire Dales, Howgills, Eastern and Northern Lakeland Fells, to arrive at Carlisle. The return journey to Settle by one of the classic train journeys. Illustrated with photographs and route maps.

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A Bowland circuit from Littledale.

On the first day after our third rate con man journo leader tells us we can have one walk per day, we obeyed him, and went locally as well. Starting from Udale Bridge in Littledale, walk up the steep road and turn left down a track after the cattle grid at the top. Past Skelbow barn turn right up a

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Malham Tarn and More

Actually the title is misleading, but kept as it sounded good; the walk goes round the "moor" north of the Tarn and only back along its north bank, and includes the wonderful boardwalk near the Tarn for a floral treat. It has 7.6 miles of limestone scenery, completely avoiding the crowds around the

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The middle Pap of Jura – Bienn an Oir

This route has been written about many times, but as we disagree with the Cicerone guide's recommended route and this was the first eight mile plus mountain walk I'd done in 18 months, we thought it worth a celebratory shout. Why just the middle Pap? Because it's the easiest as you might imagine,

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