Walking Journals and Diaries
Fell-walker, trig-pointer, peak-bagger, Wainwright-er & Pennine Way author, with a passion for long paths, malt whisky, fast cars & Man City. I have several long distance path reports on the website, along with a comprehensive list of hills and trig points I’ve visited throughout the UK. Go to this Journal
I have worked offshore on the Oil and Gas rigs for the past 29 years. I’ve visited some wonderful places, but there’s no place like home for a good tramp around the Countryside. Over the next year I will try and record a walk every Month to share with whoever...
We, Mary and Graham, were introduced to Wainwright’s guides by the owners of a Lakeland cottage we stayed at in 1986, and walked his route along the Fellbarrow–Low Fell ridge. Decades later we were researching long distance walks and came across Wainwright’s Coast to Coast – we were hooked. When...
Hans is a self-proclaimed “cloggie”, who left the polder and took to the hills – which probably means a lot more to our Dutch readers than it does to the rest of us. But reading between the lines it sounds like Hans has abandoned the flatlands of the Netherlands to...
A group of friends who decided during 2010 to walk the peaks in Yorkshire over 2000ft. Anyone who knew us back then would have been totally shocked to hear of this news as none of us were walkers, and were more likely to be found hearing the last orders bell,...
Our names are Mark and Rachel. We are Sussex born and bred and have lived in Mid Sussex for all our married lives. Both of us have always had a love of the Great Outdoors but on our honeymoon in the Brecon Beacons in 1984 I thought that perhaps hill...
My name is Paul Sharkey and I live in Wigan, Lancashire and at the ripe young age of 32 my passion (and I don’t use that word lightly) for the Lake District and fell walking began. Back in those days football was my sport, I played left back (badly) but...
Born in 1946. Parents were Madge and Charlie Stott. Lived at the corner of Leeds Road and Fairfax Street in Otley, West Yorkshire, at the foot of a steep hill called The Chevin which divides Wharfedale from Airedale. Go to this Journal
Hello. that’s me, Richard, not far from Angle Tarn. It was during my Coast to Coast in May 2009. I did it with a mate David (who took the photo). I also kept a diary, which I thought someone, somewhere might enjoy reading – hence this site. If you find...
herd of turtles: n. a group of friends who walk long distance paths together. Identifiable by their slow pace, general faffing about, and unwillingness to walk more than 15 miles a day. My name is Sarah and I’ve decided to record our escapades. I get many questions from friends and...
I live in Stourbridge in the West Midlands with my wife Liz. I have been a motor vehicle engineer, a college lecturer and now a driving instructor of 7 years. I am near to finishing work and looking forward to doing more walking and exploring my hobbies. I have had...
I am a thirty-something author of teenage fiction (soon to branch into adult crime) living in London and working as a Facilities Officer for a major publishing company. I had a interest in walking the Pennine Way for some years and finally got around to tackling it with my brother...
