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A Round of Kinder Scout: Part 3
The final blog about the latest of my Greatest Walks in Britain One thing you may notice as you start the west-bound, southern part of the route is the increase in people. It is a really popular area, and for good reason. On a good day you have spectacular views across the southern Dark Peak…
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Kinder Scout Part Two
The full circumnavigation of the plateau is just over 20km, around 6.30 hours. There are two major approaches, one from Snake Pass on the OL1 Ordnance Survey map, and the other from Edale. Both approaches use the Pennine Way. A few other routes exist but these are the most popular. The plateau itself can be…
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Greatest Walks in Britain #3: A Round of Kinder Scout Part 1
This is probably the most classic walk in the Peak District – a full ’round’ or circumnavigation of the entire Kinder Scout plateau. Our route starts either from Edale, or from the Snake Pass, and uses the Pennine Way to access the 630 metre high mountain.
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The High Five Challenge Part Two
Here is the YouTube link to my vlog of the Snowdon trip – If you’d like to learn the route I used to plan your own trip then please send me an email 🙂
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The High Five Challenge: Hiking Every Route on Snowdon in Three Days (Part One)
Yesterday, I finished a new mountain challenge to hike every route on Snowdon in three days. The route I worked out to link them all together included summiting five times and hiking ten routes in all with only one of them repeated. I’ll work out the stats soon enough – it’s a long way with…
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The Yorkshire Three Peaks
I completed this classic challenge walk in the Yorkshire Dales again last weekend (video to come very shortly). It takes in the summits of Pen y Ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough, the last of which you can just see peeking through the viaduct archways on the right.
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The Miner’s Track – Preparing for the Snowdon Challenge
Yesterday I hiked up the Miner’s Track, and then down the Pyg Track via the summit of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales. It was sunny, but very windy at the top especially. It was the first part of my preparations for a personal project called High Five: The Snowdon Challenge. It will form a…
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32 km training walk – preparing for ‘The Woldsman’
On Sunday I finally completed a route which I’ve had in mind for a long time – a 20 mile (32km) circular in Calderdale and parts of Bradford. I did it for three reasons. 1 – Because I’ve bought myself a pair of Oboz boots and was keen to take them for a spin 2…
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Bank top to Hebble Trail
Here’s the latest in a series of West Yorkshire walks – lots more to come with some incredible projects on the horizon. Enjoy 🙂
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