29th May 2010
A weekend in the Peak District

We spent the bank holiday weekend camping and walking in the Peak District, based in Tideswell. Despite the poor weather forcast for Saturday we were not put off and started our walk from Castleton on the Limestone Way. We walked across Rushup Edge and Lord's Seat and on to Brown Knoll. After following the spur down we meet the Penine Way and continued up to the Kinder Plateau. Unfortunately this is where the bad weather came in and we were drenched! We descended rapidly along Jacobs Ladder into ...


22nd May 2010
Westerfield - Woodbridge

It was a beautiful hot sunny day as we drove from Bury St Edmunds to the start of our walk in Westerfield near Ipswich. The temperature only got hotter as the day went on. We started off by walking through Westerfield village and taking a public pathway across barley fields to Tuddenham St Martin. Tuddenham St Martin was a very picturesque village with a pub overlooking meadows. From here we continued across more fields to the village of Playford where we stopped for refreshments at The Admiral. ...


9th May 2010
Sudbury - Long Melford

This walk was lead by Tim and was an East Anglia Mountaineering Club meet. The walk started at Sudbury railway station. We walked along the Stour Valley pathway towards Long Melford, through small villages and following the riverside. 

We stopped for lunch in a pub in Long Melford which was a very welcome break. Then after dragging ourselves out we continued back to Sudbury via several fields with horses in. The horses became rather friendly when they realised that we had some spare ...


24th Apr 2010
Fife Coastal Path

On this expedition 7 boys from Edinburgh were preparing for their bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. To start with we covered different sections of the syllabus such as: putting up tents, using stoves, first aid, navigation, menu planning, buying food, route planning, packing rucksacs, checking equipment etc.

The day after our preparation we started our journey buy taking the coach to Kingsbarns. From here it was up to the boys to find their way to the campsite. For many of them it was their fir ...


22nd Apr 2010
The Ridgeway, Chilterns, Oxfordshire

This was a 24 hour sponsored walking event for charity, from Wattlington to Barbury Castle. The route followed the 'The Ridgeway' national trail for 50 miles. The event started at 8am and the first group of walkers arrived at the finish line at 7pm!

The pathway journeyed through beautiful countryside, farmland. There were no significant ascents or descents and we did have the pleasure of walking along the banks of the River Thames in the sunshine.

The last leg brought the walkers into Barb ...


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