The Pennine Way and our club-a long relationship

Most of the Pennine Way is in our club’s stamping ground and as we approach the end of our Pennine Way project it is worth looking back at our relationship with Britain’s first long distance footpath.  The Pennine Way between Marsden to Hawes is easily accessible for day trips by public transport and even more of it is easily within range of our coach...

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Where would you like to walk?

Each time my rucksack is packed, my flask filled, sandwiches made, and I set off for a day on the fells, I am starting out on a new adventure. When I try to explain why I like to roam about on the hills and moors, I speak of visits to a landscape immersed in romanticism; I tell of the sublime feeling when I stand on the lip of a high crag or deep inside the cathedral like chasm of Gordale Scar. The exhilaration when I am searching for the “hard to find” rock carvings on Boulsworth Hill or the wistful anticipation of trying to locate a crashed aircraft in the hills...

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Beyond the Speyside Way

The northern end of the Speyside Way is at Buckie, one of many fishing towns and villages along the Moray coast. We arrived there with the club at Spring Bank Holiday this year and like many of the group we thought reaching the wild and undeveloped coast was a highlight. The stone marker for the end of the Speyside Way seemed as if it should be the start of something else.

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