Walking Home – Peak Forest To Hayfield

I do like linear routes, and I do like 'walking home'. The Plan this time, was for Geoff to drop Pebbles and I off in Castleton, and we would make our way home over three days/two nights. Best laid plans and all that. Forecasted road works and long delays at Winnats Pass, meant I had …

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Sabres And Liberators

'22 July 1954. Four RAF Sabre jets from No 66 Squadron had taken part in “Exercise Dividend” practicing air defences against a simulated attack on Britain by Soviet nuclear bombers. It was a huge undertaking, the largest since the war and a total of 6 aircraft across the country were lost that day, two of …

Not The Coast To Coast

Day One I was very nervous. Not only was I worried that my foot might suddenly decide to go into self destruct mode again, I had also been having trouble with my right hip for a few weeks. I was putting this down to starting to walk properly with my left foot (as instructed by …

Kind Of Coast To Coast – Ish

My PF hasn't totally gone yet, but it has mostly gone. For the most part now, I'm not giving it a second thought as I'm wandering around, but every now and then, it just likes to twinge a bit and remind me that it's still there. Anyway, the next step in my Phased Return to …

Featherbed Top

Day One, 2.01 miles Backpacking at the moment feels a bit like a phased return to work. I'm trying to get out as much as possible, gradually increasing the distance and altering the terrain etc, in order to help The Foot along its recovery path. Last weekend's outing was a linear route from the Snake …

Brown Knoll – Yet Again………

Ok, I've said this before, it's not the most exciting place in the world, but it is quiet, has some nice views and is only a few miles from home. I had actually planned to camp in a totally different spot, earlier in the week, but it hadn't happened. And when James reminded me that …

Castleton To Home

The tweet says it all really. Over the past 7 months, I've had so many ups and downs with this PF - good days, bad days, days when the pain/and or mental anguish has reduced me to tears - that even though I knew it was time to get back out on a solo camp, …