Tag: #short-distance
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Stoodley Pike Circular
Today’s hike was Louise’s choice, which meant one thing, it was going to be an adventure. We headed to Hebden Bridge for the Stoodley Pike Circular. I made absolutely sure this time that Zara had her walking boots, because I did not want to deal with this question again, “Did you pack them?” in a…
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Leeds Country Way Day 9
Today was the first time in a whole month that the entire gang managed to get together for a walk. We celebrated this reunion by choosing a route that immediately tried to kill us with vegetation. It was full on attack of the triffids. We tackled Stage 9 of the Leeds Country Way, starting in…
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The Calverley Loop (and the numpty of the walk award).
The Numpty of the Walk Award goes to (insert your own drumroll) Zara.Why? Because she forgot to bring her walking boots. As we were parking the car, she turned to me with full teenage confidence and asked whether I had packed her boots. Err nope! Thankfully, the Calverley Loop is a short, straightforward local wander,…
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Black Hill and 2 plane crash sites
This week’s walk was sponsored by the Aviation Disasters Walking Club. Which is the new name Louise would like our walking group to be named after I gave the grim details of our adventure over WhatsApp So first thing to note. Don’t do this walk when it’s wet or if there has been rain recently. …
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Overexposed Crash Site Walk
I’m starting to think I’m into dark tourism. We visited another aeroplane crash site today on a walk. This one is in the Peak district and doesn’t involve walking up a mountain. Back in 1948 a big American plane called Overexposed crashed into the peak district, not that far off the Higher Shelf Stones trig…
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Teggs Nose Country Park
I haven’t been on a walk for a little while. I’ve been so busy going on different adventures instead and not having the time. I did however, meet up with my friend Hayley yesterday and go for a stroll. We met up at the half way mark between our houses, and that just happened to…
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A trip around a couple of very low reservoirs
Our weekend walk last weekend was a trip around Swinsty and Fewston. It’s not rained for about 2 months and the reservoirs are very low. We had a great conversation on our walk about how we might have to fight our neighbours for a pint of water if it doesn’t rain soon. Louise, Rachel and…
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Buckden Pike take 2
I was going to just adjust the previous Buckden post, but this new walk up felt like it was worthy of its own post. Parking once again in Buckden carpark we headed towards the river Wharfe instead of taking the path uphill from the carpark. We followed the river for a couple of miles which…
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Buckden Pike
7th highest mountain in the Dales, coming in at 702m. Supposedly this mountain has the best views in all of the Dales. I wouldn’t know if this is true or not though. I will probably be walking up it again shortly, maybe the weather will be kinder this time? This walk starts in Buckden at…
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Janet Foss, Gordale Scar and Malham Cove
So I cheated on Rachel yesterday. I went into the Dales without her. Zara (my youngest daughter) had been watching Tictok and had found a video of a walk that she wanted to do. Upon viewing it I realised we had already done a section of the walk previously (10 years and 1 day to…