The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. Another walk up towards Flounder’s Folly on Wenlock Edge. The Route Click here to view the full description. © Copyright Jeremy Bolwell and licensed for reuse under this Creative […]
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The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. This is a 10km walk from Craven Arms up to Callow Hill, and as you can see from the picture below, the view from Flounder’s
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The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. Here’s a bit of a tough route for such a short walk, as you’ll have to go over the hill twice! With any luck, the
The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. The Route Click here to view the full description and download route leaflets.
The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. This is another walk from The Bog visitor centre towards Shelve and Grit Hill. The Route Click here to view the full description and download route
The Shropshire hills are a convenient get away if you want a hilly walk but the mountains of Snowdonia and the Lakes are too far to travel for the weekend. Here’s a short route up the Stiperstones from The Bog. The Route Click here to view the full description and download route leaflets.
Y Gribin on Snowdon is a short, steep scramble from Glaslyn towards Bwlch y Saethau between Yr Wyddfa and Y Lliwedd and provides an equally good route for the ascent of either. If you want a short day’s scrambling, and want to avoid the crowds on Crib Goch then this route is a great option.
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While rather urban and built up, there’s an easy to follow path that’s suitable for runners, walkers and cyclists. The Route Staying at Leasowe Castle Hotel, I decided to give the coastal path a go. It’s very easy, and follows cycle tracks or the concrete embankment for the distance. If the tide is out, then
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This is the most direct route from Inverie to Glenfinnan via the glens. Can be wild camped or there are four bothies along the route. The Route Enjoy the pics until we put the route online
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This is a great walk for half a day or an evening. The Route For a route description – click here. Had a great walk up after work tonight, the first after work bimble of the year. It was cloudy and the windchill was unexpected for April, especially after the exceptionally warm March. The best thing
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A steady walk up Mynydd y Twr, Holyhead Mountain that has some pretty rough and steep sections on the descent (if in doubt, return the same way). The Route The route starts off at the lower South Stack Car park, where parking is free but limited (it gets busy quickly!). This is located at SH210
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If you’re just getting into trail and fell running, you may want to get off path without all that ascent. This easy route starts at over 350m at the Bwlch y Groes car park before a steady ascent takes you through the quarries to the summit of Cefn Du at 441m. The return path is
An easy walk along the coastal path along spectacular scenery with very little ascent and a pub near the end! Make sure you’ve got an up to date map with the coastal path clearly marked! My map was a few years old, and this was good prep for walking the entire path in a few
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A long route starting in Rhyd Ddu and ending in Llanberis, though you could well return via the Clogwyn Gwin path to the start. Ascending via the Allt Maenderyn (south) Ridge and descending over Moel Cynghorion which isn’t much of a destination for a single day but an ideal viewpoint to end one. The Route
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We took a bimble up the summit of Moel Eilio and the ridge beyond today. Here are some of the pictures that we took on the walk. The route starts above Waunfawr at the Bwlch y Groes car park, but be warned that the road and parking is a little rough! The Route It’s an
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Took the opportunity to do this walk today as there was just a nice dusting of snow, and we intended to fit any walk into the morning. The Route If you want a description of this walk – see here. We set off this morning with some wet slush underfoot, lightly covering the black oozing
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A longish walk from Nantmor through the ancient woodland in the Nantmor valley and across the moor to Llyn Dinas. The return is then along the Afon Glaslyn, though Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass via the riverside fisherman’s path. The Route To follow…
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This route featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks and is taken from Irvine Butterfield’s classic tome – The High Mountains of Britain and Ireland Vol 1. Enigmatically named volume 1 thirty years ago, this is still a standalone volume. The cover of the original had a shot of the Forcan Ridge, with even more
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This is an epic walk if ever there was one and this route featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. Over The Ben, CMD, Aonach Mor, Beag and finally the Grey Corries; that’s one walk you’d have to try. I did a few springs back, even adding on some more hills above Loch Treig
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This route featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. I don’t even know why I chose this one! Probably as I think I ought to get out and do it, and partially for the same reason as people run those races with barbed wire and mud. Crossing this area seems like a penance in
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This is Steve Ashton’s Walk across the Rhinogydd from our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. Ashton does, admittedly, do them the easy way. He starts off in Cwm Bychan and then follows the entire ridge to Abermaw (Barmouth). While the walk is well described, there is the issue of returning to the start. Ashton also
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This is the Steve Ashton Moelwynion Ridge walk featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. Setting off from Dolwyddelan, he takes the route up via the forest and to Llyn y Foel, Daear Ddu and follows the route around to Allt Fawr, before recalling how he managed to get a lift to the start
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This is the Steve Ashton Nantlle Ridge route from our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks. The classic Snowdonia ridge walk without doubt, and he provides the vanilla version from Rhyd Ddu over to Garnedd Coch, over all the best bits and omitting that little upstart – Mynydd Graig Goch. The beauty of this book,
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A very short walk from Congl-y-wal at the southern end of Blaenau Ffestiniog, beneath the cliffs of Manod Mawr and returning via farmland to the start. The Route Click here to view the full description and download a printable map, or the Slate Valley Paths home page for details of the other paths. © Copyright Eric Jones and licensed for reuse
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