Hiking thread

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Blencathra via Sharp Edge, great fun on a wet and windy day.

Actually saw a young family attempting that route in massively inappropriate footwear. 2 young kids in wellies, bloke in a pair of Adidas Superstars and wife in court shoes. They were politely advised to turn around.

Lakeland limestone gets pretty slippy in the wet, and given it was a pretty damp day they probably would have ended up needing rescuing.

Met similar on Crib Goch.

 

[EnzoMCFC]

Doggers in boots

 

[Vicious111]

I'm a keen hillwalker and I've been working through my munros. At around the 50 mark.

If you ever plan on coming up to Scotland (meet quite alot of walkers that travel up each w/e from as far as London) you can use www.walkhighlands.co.uk to plan your routes etc.

My personal favourite would be the Glen Etive Valley just off of the famous Glen Coe. Its actually where the famous scene of Bond and M as they stop the car in Skyfall was set.

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Being from England, I've no idea what this 'hiking' is but I can strongly recommend some fell walking in the north Lakes. Worth just seeing how many of the Wainwrights you can do because it simply doesn't get any better than that.

 

[wez99]

Higger Tor, Carl Wark and Stannage edge are close together after you've finished Padley Gorge

 

[foetus]

Not exactly close location wise but the 3 of the best hikes I've done are:

Milford Sound Track, New Zealand. Known as one of the best hikes in the world for a good reason.

Everest Base Camp Trek. Amazing scenery, gets challenging with altitude. Quite touristy though. My mates have done Annapurna Track and said it was fantastic.

Norway Pass, Mt St Helens, Washington State. Short hike rewarded with beautiful views of Mt St Helens ( and Mt Adams and Mt Hood in the distance). I tried to hike up Mt St Helens but I missed out on one of the daily permits.

Hopefully these pics might inspire any fellow hikers out there. It's a big, beautiful world.

 

[inchy14]

Not exactly close location wise but the 3 of the best hikes I've done are:

Milford Sound Track, New Zealand. Known as one of the best hikes in the world for a good reason.

Everest Base Camp Trek. Amazing scenery, gets challenging with altitude. Quite touristy though. My mates have done Annapurna Track and said it was fantastic.

Norway Pass, Mt St Helens, Washington State. Short hike rewarded with beautiful views of Mt St Helens ( and Mt Adams and Mt Hood in the distance). I tried to hike up Mt St Helens but I missed out on one of the daily permits.

Hopefully these pics might inspire any fellow hikers out there. It's a big, beautiful world.

That top pick!! Want to take my wetsuit and go for a dip in that! Looks amazing.

 

[1961_vintage]

Blencathra via Sharp Edge, great fun on a wet and windy day.

via Halls Fell Ridge. Great fun!

 

[mikemcfc]

I loved the Peak district

so did we. :)

 

[andyhinch]

Being from England, I've no idea what this 'hiking' is but I can strongly recommend some fell walking in the north Lakes. Worth just seeing how many of the Wainwrights you can do because it simply doesn't get any better than that.

Well worth getting a copy of Wainwright’s some great walks from Wasdale and Eskdale

 

[idahoblues]

so did we. :)

Haha, walked over those from both directions, several times

 

[mikemcfc]

Haha, walked over those from both directions, several times

Very admirable indeed. We wandered around little trails from parking lots.
We thought about hiking the peaks in the Tram,
but there were too many stairs up to it.

 

[GornikDaze]

I'm a keen hillwalker and I've been working through my munros. At around the 50 mark.

If you ever plan on coming up to Scotland (meet quite alot of walkers that travel up each w/e from as far as London) you can use www.walkhighlands.co.uk to plan your routes etc.

My personal favourite would be the Glen Etive Valley just off of the famous Glen Coe. Its actually where the famous scene of Bond and M as they stop the car in Skyfall was set.

Sadly we had to cancel our Munro trip this year. Walkhighlands is a really useful site for planning trips north of the border and the folk on there are very helpful with route or kit questions - they are in the main also very polite! 2021 will probably see us have a second stab at the Southern Upland Way...

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Heaton Park

I'll raise your Heaton Park - Boggart Hole Clough!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I'm a keen hillwalker and I've been working through my munros. At around the 50 mark.

If you ever plan on coming up to Scotland (meet quite alot of walkers that travel up each w/e from as far as London) you can use www.walkhighlands.co.uk to plan your routes etc.

My personal favourite would be the Glen Etive Valley just off of the famous Glen Coe. Its actually where the famous scene of Bond and M as they stop the car in Skyfall was set.

Glen Coe is also where bits of Monty Python The Holy Grail was filmed.

The Aonach Eagach ridge is well worth a punt in Glen Coe. I've done it in winter and summer. Winter is a different challenge altogether.

I've also done Ben Nevis on New Years Day (with a hangover) from Glen Nevis (about 10 years ago now) via Carn Mor Dearg Arete. Waist deep in snow for most of the way, clag all the way. It cleared about 200m from the summit and we had spectacular views right down the valley.

 

[chesterbells]

Wifey was off work last week and az I'm furloughed and our Greece holiday had been cancelled we did some walking in the Derbyshire Dales, North Wales Coast and the Sandstone trail in Cheshire
The views on the sandstone were fabulous and where we started from was only 25 minutes up the road

The Sanstone is around 35 miles in total and in one go takes about 12 hours

Did you do the full Sandstone Trial in a day?
I did that about 15 years ago, but last month went back and did it in two halves over two successive weekends, and that was more than sufficient now, and I felt suitably sore afterwards! Agree with you on the timings, each half about 6 hours. Recommend it, though the Delamere Forest section was busy.

 

[dickie davies]

Did you do the full Sandstone Trial in a day?
I did that about 15 years ago, but last month went back and did it in two halves over two successive weekends, and that was more than sufficient now, and I felt suitably sore afterwards! Agree with you on the timings, each half about 6 hours. Recommend it, though the Delamere Forest section was busy.

No, I haven't done it all, just different bits on different days
I'd like a go at doing it in a day, but wifey would struggle. She can keep up on a 10/12 miler, 30 odd in one go would be too much

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

My mate did this walk with his other half yesterday - Whernside

 

[inchy14]

My mate did this walk with his other half yesterday - Whernside

Doing that tomorrow, I’ve done it as part of Yorkshire 3 peaks before but other half hasn’t.

 

[01282]

I’ve just walked from Pendle Hill to robin hoods bay for a mate who sadly died from cancer last year. Pretty much covered the Yorkshire dales and North Yorkshire moors on it. I can highly recommend hiking in either of those places plus the Pendle 3 peaks or Yorkshire 3 peaks is also a good challenge. My lad did it aged 11 so isn’t too difficult.