Yo guys. One thing that's helped reawaken me emotionally is hiking. The prospect of walking off the beaten track. Over the last couple of years I've been gradually, when I can, building myself up to walk further. I walk around Gibside, Cragside, Seaton Sluice wagon ways. I'm doing research now on places like Otterburn and Pennines. Anyone else got some tips/advice to give on good places to go out hiking? Cheers.
I don't do much at all these days following a stroke but I would recommend as a challenge doing the Coast to Coast or walking Hadrian's Wall, I did Hadrian's Wall about 42 years ago in the summer whilst a youngster.
I traipse around a golf course four times a week I also did a 5km run in under 20 minutes last year As for walking, I've done a few mountains in the Lakes. I enjoy the peace and quiet and the exercise.
Aye, lovely part of the world. Yorkshire Dales too I've got 2 pooches so don't do the massive 1s but still nice to spend a day out walking Craster to Low Newton I think it is? is a nice local walk, especially when it's a bit warmer Was meant to go to Glencoe then Covid happened, would like to actually do that
There's a place near Bolton that has a river with a 100% kill rate... If you look at it you'd just think let's jump in there lads..
Hiking is the number 1 pass time in Norway, you hike somewhere, hopefully with a BBQ pit with some friends or family and have a BBQ up in the hills or on an island next to a lake, in the mountains. So, I do quite a bit of it. The plan for this summer so far is to drive down to sunny Kristiansand in Agder camp it out for the week enjoying the beautiful weather and take the ferry over to Denmark for a day or two and do the same there. I love it me, I'd have been a trail travelling Cowboy back in the day.
The thing is if I just stumbled across that I'd jump in no bother for the bet of a line back in the day
You can literally chuck a tree in and it eats the branches before disappearing. Yeah there's not many signs or owt.. Slippy too
In the mid 1830s I did a fair bit of hiking in the Rocky Mountains - very hard work but financially EXTREMELY rewarding; remember, this was the high point of beaver harvesting and I’d gotten in at the ground floor (4 pelts would net you a very good pistol back then, particularly if you were happy to take them to town yourself rather than sell them through the traders). Nothing lasts forever though, in the ‘40s that perfect storm of • declining beaver, • changing hat fashions (mainly Europe) plus • those Canadian ****s out of Hudson Bay undercutting us …. all just made it pointless, no money to be earned. That was when I moved into, first, guiding (non uniformed and mostly male) and then, as most people know, cowboying. Great days. So Tash, if you don’t mind the absence of beaver, it continues to offer lovely hikes. That’s my two pen’th
I’d guess about 230-250… can’t be sure as the Mountain Man records tent went up in a blaze at the ‘32 Rendezvous - which I did NOT attend …. but have never satisfactorily proved it because the records went up in [etc etc] - hence my bad name in the Mountain Man community
from ****ing to walking... fair play Tash. I walk from Consett to Durham through some lovely countryside and end up at Wetherspoons after about 3.5-4 hours. I then work out the calories burned over 13 miles (approx 1700) and drink 8 pints to wipe them out. By the time I get home I'm pissed and also in a calorie deficit for the day still.... and also well exercised. A reward at the end of a long walk is good.
