You’ve got this far, now you can follow the wide and easy traffic free french cycle tracks to Paris. Difficulties: Getting back to London Activity Type: Cycling Submitted by: The Route For more information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11448829 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11447348 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Verte
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If you want an international cycling challenge then this has to be on of the best options. Starting from St Pauls in London, it follows off road cycle tracks for most of the duration. Some of these tracks aren’t paved and you may need a hybrid or mountain bike – a burden for some, but
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A steady trail run from near Conwy. You can easily extend the run to nearer 10km by heading to Cefn Amor, past the old quarries and return along the really good green track on the opposite side of the hill. This is a pleasant trail run along grassy paths that, other than the uphill bits,
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This is an interesting cycle on quiet roads on the immediate area around Caernarfon. There’s even a bike hire at the start. Location: Caernarfon Difficulties: None Specified The Route A nice simple cylce that’s suitable for all the family. Starting off near the Castle, following a quiet road for most of the way and returning
This is my favourite run, with just enough trail to make it interesting and not too much ascent so a mere mortal can complete it. Location: Caernarfon Difficulties: None Specified The Route Due to injury, I’ve not run this route for over a year, but it is my favourite run. The final section climbs up
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Walk the Carneddau in one go – if you’re up to the challenge! There’s nothing more satisfying than a decent traverse of an entire mountain range. This walk takes you loosely from Conwy over the Carneddau and down to Capel Curig and can be an ideal wild camping trip. Why not extend your trip by
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This walking route up Arenig Fach in central Snowdonia is ideal if you want to get away from the madding crowds of Eryri. Beware that the terrain up Arenig Fach is one of the wildest and pathless parts of Snowdonia. Even the notorious Rhinogydd have better paths. Here you’ll find very few traces of previous
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This is the easiest route up Helvellyn from Patterdale and Glenridding way as it avoids both Striding Edge and Swirall Edge, taking instead the “Pony Path” up via Keppel Cove to ascend Hevellyn via Whiteside and Helvellyn Lower Man. The route then continues over the peaks of Nethermost Pike and Dollywaggon Pike to return via Grisedale.
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Day 2 of the Pembrokeshire Coastal path takes you from Tenby to Freshwater East. Make sure you’re up to date with the firing times at the firing range, or you might find this walk more exciting than expected. Route Start Dinbych y Pysgod OS Map Required OS Explorer 36 Public Transport Bus Services Route End
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Day one of the Pembrokeshire Coastal path from Amroth to Tenby. Walking the first section of this path over a couple of days was a right mixed bag. Starting in Amroth at the southern end of the National Trail, I felt optimistic. You are on the sea shore, and despite the road it feels good. You
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Originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back and the images are rather poor as they were taken with a mobile. This was my first day in Loch Ossian YH. On leaving the train, it was a quick walk to the Youth Hostel where I was greeted by Nick and told where
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Originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back and the images are rather poor as taken with a mobile. This was my second day in Loch Ossian YH with an ascent of Leum Uilleim. The next day saw much the same sort of weather as yesterday. Rain and wind, with very little sun
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This route originally appeared on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years ago. The weather forecast had been eagerly anticipated the previous night and it shaped the next day ‘s walk as it was anticipating not just foul weather, I can cope with that, but lightning. That I don‘t really fancy. So Carn Dearg and a couple
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Carn Dearg from Corrour Station – originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back. Arriving on the sleeper at Corrour, i had managed to sleep much better this time thank you. An easy walk was all i wanted though, and the easiest walk left was that up Carn Dearg (and Sgorr Gailbhre). I
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The Munros of Chno Dearg and Stob Coire Sgriodain are more often ascended from Fersaid/Fersit to the north, but the approach from Corrour is much more epic! Some walks are easy. Others are tiring. Not many get that Epic label, and this was one of them. One of the hardest mountain days I’ve had. In perfect
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There’s always something special when you manage to fit a decent walk in on a weekeday. It’s almost like stolen time as we aren’t meant to do fun things on a weekday. It’s all work, work, work. So you have to work around that, and make the most of things. Well, I live so close to the hills
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This is a nice, quiet walk. So close to Snowdon, you can almost hear the crowds. Indeed, you can’t fail to miss them in Rhyd Ddu where they tend to gather to climb the highest peak in Wales and England. Fortunately for us, they don’t know any better and will leave today’s destination well alone.
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This is a two day backpacking route across the Carneddau that I walked as a very steady three day walk, wild camping for two nights. You could easily walk it in a day, or as a steady two day trip. As we were setting off early evening on the first day, it was essentially a
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If you like to bag peaks then this epic trek up Cadair Idris, climbing all the main summits is definitely the way to do it. Llanfihangel-y-pennant is a tiny hamlet of a church, a house and a block of public toilets to service the small car park. It’s also the birthplace of Mari Jones who walked 26 barefoot miles, for
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This circular hill walk up Cadair Berwyn from Llandrillo is a long route in the Berwyn mountains along a mixed bag of good tracks and high moor. It includes all the main summits from Cadair Bronwen, Cadair Berwyn and Moel Sych. I’m always concerned about biting off more than I can chew in new areas,
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Aran Fawddwy is the highest mountain south of Snowdon and the highest summit in South Snowdonia, yet this is a largely ignored hill. It is barely 10m below the magic mark of 914m and often overlooked in favour of its less lofty, but more spectacular neighbour Cader Idris. Fortunately, this means that a walk up
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Despite the proximity of the much busier Cadair Idris, these are rarely walked hills, though anyone who’s been along the A470 will have been impressed with the aspect they display to the drivers. The experience for the walker though, is rather more sedate, being a bimbly walk with no real difficulties over a terrain that’s
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Cwm Bychan is one of the more remote areas of Snowdonia. There’s just a narrow, unclassified road leading up to the cwm and no through route. In summer it’s a beautifully wooded valley, but today the lake was frozen over and the place felt like winter. There’s parking noted on the OS map, and it
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Arenig Fawr stands almost alone, dominating the landscape around it. There’s an easier route up, but this one is slightly off path! It is a contrasting route that starts off too easily along an old quarry track, but as soon as it finishes, you’re largely on your own. A short, unpleasant, section uphill on boulders
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