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Humber. Southeasterly Four. Moderate or Good. Rain later.
SPURN Head is one of those places everyone has heard of but few can pinpoint on a map. When you’ve got your bearings it’s easy to find – but that could also be said of Kafia Kingi and Amelia Earhart. …...
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Giving a Fig About Walking up Gorges
Walking on water . . . just for a change Continue reading →
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Rookhope: A Reminder of Who We Are
WEARDALE is a Pennine valley that has the footprints of industry stamped all over it. It has no pretentions and shows no inclination to tidy itself up. That???s why it appeals to me so much . . ....
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Only a Rosedale, I give you . . .
THIS set out to be a hike to the Rosedale iron mines ??? but I got tangled in a fox hunt and that???s far more entertaining. It was also a day of bewildering signposts, dazzling sunlight, heather fire...
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East of Ullswater ??? An Inland Voyage
THE steamer Lady Wakefield chugs down the lake with its cargo of day-trippers. This is the way to embark on a walk. Throb-throb of engines; white light shimmering on water; the scent of fresh-cut hay...
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Coniston Fells: Highways, Byways, Narrow Ways
A day tramping over the Coniston fells . . . Continue reading →
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A Pennine Trek, Part 2 ??? A Night Beneath Hangman Hill
McEff continues his backpacking trip to Hexham . . . Continue reading →
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Blaenavon ??? How Serene is My Valley
TODAY unfolds back to front. It begins with ancient history, progresses to sausages, peas and chips with gravy, and terminates in a breezy walk in the mist. That isn???t how it was planned. The...
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The Long Surrender: Brandy Bottle Incline
THIS is an account of a short walk in the hills above Arkengarthdale ??? but it has a back story that begins in the early 1980s and involves a group of mine explorers and an elusive portal into the...
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Blog on the Tyne
A walk down the Tyne to Tynemouth ??? and back . . . Continue reading →
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Old Roads, a Fallen Lady, St Jude and Thoughts for the Day
A walk through the lead mines of the North Pennines . . . Continue reading →
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Lindisfarne ??? A Pilgrim’s Progress
THERE are not many walks in Britain best undertaken barefoot ??? but crossing the two-and-a-half miles of mudflats to the island of Lindisfarne is one of them. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do...
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