Our walking calendars finally aligned, allowing us to meet up for a weekend of walking, camping and catching up. After an incredible exchange of emails and GPX files, Matt (@hillplodder)
It was now or never really. I’d been waiting until as close to deadline as possible to conduct a comprehensive village survey for the Pennine Way guide book update. I
Alex and I walked the final two days of the Cotswold Way at the weekend, finishing at the doors of Bath Abbey only 15 months after setting out from Chipping
I’ve been having a play with PHP and mySQL – for the non-techies out there – that’s not some super-dooper new waterproof fabric, it’s website scripting (PHP) and back-end database
Date: 24th Jul 2010 Stats: 9.5 miles, 2800 feet Weather: Warm, light breeze, overcast Trig Points: 1: TP0724 – Malvern County Tops: 1: Herefordshire Other Info: Free parking at both
I desperately wanted to get out today – I’ve not walked further than round the supermarket for three weeks as I’ve been resting my recently repaired knee – and the
I avoided Cumbria last weekend – for obvious reasons, and my thoughts go out to everyone affected by the floods. I went instead to Yorkshire and chose a walk along
Date: 5th Sep 2009 Stats: 13.0 miles, 2200 feet Weather: Sunny to begin, windy and cloudy tops, rain starting later Trig Points: 1: TP6768 – Water Crag Yorks Top 30:
Date: 30th Aug 2009 Location: Dales Distance: 12.0 miles Weather: Sunny to begin, cloudy tops, spitting rain, windy, very, very wet underfoot Ascent: 2500 feet Trig Points: 1: TP6943 –
Date: 28th Aug 2009 Location: Lakes Distance: 13.0 miles Weather: Overcast and cloudy, some sunny spells, brightening at the end, no rain Ascent: 2600 feet Trig Points: 0 Time: 5
Date: 22nd Aug 2009 Location: Howgills Distance: 11.0 miles Weather: Cloudy to start, becoming sunny, windy on top Ascent: 2800 feet Trig Points: 2: Time: 5 hrs 5 mins Yorks
I’m about to move all my walk reports from the unwieldy and static website to the much more dynamic medium of the diary and in future any walk reports I
Date: 18th Jul 2009 Location: Dales Distance: 12.0 miles Weather: Cloudy with rain spells all day Ascent: 1900 feet Trig Points: 1: TP2795 – Dodd Fell Time: 4 hrs 50
Date: 12th Jul 2009 Stats: 13.5 miles, 2800 feet Weather: Overcast and cloudy, some rain spells, brightening at the end Trig Points: 2: TP4216 – Kinder Low, TP3019 – Edale
Date: 27th Jun 2009 Stats: 13.0 miles, 2100 feet Weather: Overcast all day, wet underfoot Trig Points: 2: TP0143 – Dent, TP0944 – Aye Gill Pike Wainwrights: N/A Other Info:
Date: 13th Jun 2009 Stats: 9 miles, 2000 feet Weather: Clear and sunny to start, turning to rain and windy later Trig Points: 1: TP3801 – High Pike Wainwrights: 2:
Date: 7th Jun 2009 Stats: 11.5 miles, 1900 feet Weather: Overcast to begin, warming gently, windy on tops Trig Points: 2: TP3096 – Fair Snape Fell, TP3692 – Hazelhurst Fell
Date: 30th May 2009 Stats: 13.5 miles, 1400 feet Weather: Fine and sunny all day Trig Points: 1: TP5518 – Powson Knott Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Plenty of free parking