Your walk today...

[SpokeyDokey]

Yesterday. 5.5 mile loop from front door straight into the lower Fells. Trying to walk off a bad back caused by assembling etc of a replacement treadmill for the one that blew up recently.

For a change, here is a pic' of my trusty old Sigg bottle taken en-route - battle scarred and weary, just like its owner.

Around 30 years old, it was a twin but the twin got left on top of the Ben Nevis massif at Carn Mor Dearg (NW) - too far back to recover once I realised.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

5 mile loop (sort of) in the Kentmere Valley this afternoon:

View from Hot Sausage Bridge (we always have them there at this time of the year when on this route) at the halfway point:

Mrs SD's new Bobble hat - top bit at least:

 

[geocycle]

Short stroll around Silverdale Moss and Hawes Water.

 

[gbb]

No striking scenery for me, just an hours walk through a local deserted industrial estate with the dog, found a fenced in area that allowed me to let him run like a mad thing for 5 mins with no risk.
Quite nice out there, good to stretch the legs (both of us).

 

[PeteXXX]

I waited until the temperature had risen to -4 before starting off on a circuit of Pitsford Reservoir this morning with the dog.

The path was quite crunchy in places...

Interesting pattern on the ice!

I stopped on about 4 miles for a coffee and a banana.

All in all a pleasant, chilly, unchallenging 7 mile walk, back home for another coffee & a bagel.

😊

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A loop along the canal and back through Heriot Watt this morning, grey and blowy but relatively mild. Loads of birds, lots of fieldfare and redwings, a nice view of a sparrowhawk, and at long last a sighting of waxwings, my first of this winter. And a few daffodils starting to show.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A circuit of the Penicuik Estate this morning, beautiful spring sunshine. Lots of dippers along the burns and nuthatches in the woods.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Spring sunshine, the River Almond from Cammo to Cramond today.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I wouldn’t agree with Arthur’s Seat specifically but I certainly agree with the headline, there are so many absolutely cracking walks around here.

 

[Adam4868]

Morecambe to Heysham village and back on Wednesday.....followed by chips ! Picked the best day of the week weather wise and some gorgeous views

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[ColinJ]

No photos of today's walk (it was a bit drizzly, and I forgot anyway!)...

My sister, her dog and I were driven by my niece and her boyfriend to Haddon Hill on the fringes of Exmoor. The weather was a bit uninspiring so we didn't do a full circuit of Wimbleball Lake, but we did do a nice stroll for a couple of miles over the dam and along the western side of the reservoir.

We will go back in the summer on a sunny day and go all the way round.

 

[PeteXXX]

Up before the lark this morning.. 02:50 actually, as that's what my Work alarm is set for. I'd planned a visit to the B29 crash site just north of the Snake Pass, via the Pennine Way, for a while. Last attempt failed by a combination of knackered back and rubbish weather (with the A57 being closed by snow, too!)
Today, I parked where the Pennine Way crosses Snake Pass by 05:30 and headed northwards crunching through the icy puddles as the sun was rising.

The flagstones across some of the more boggy bits were really icy & slippery so it was safer to squidge through the mud and thank my waterproof boots!
Even though the path to the crash site, such as it is, is marked in places, it's not obvious so I was happy to follow my Ordnance Survey route. Basically, head to the top of Higher Shelf Stones and there it is.

After wandering around the area, I headed up to the Trig Point before getting myself across a really boggy section back to the Pennine Way and to the car.

5¼ miles covered before driving to Ladybower Reservoir for a few miles on the Brommie then to Hathersage Open Air pool for a swim.. That's almost a triathlon!! 😂

 

[SpokeyDokey]

One from a couple of weeks ago.

Bowscale Fell (a tad East of Sharp Edge, Blencathra) - a very cold and extremely windy hike. Gusting 45mph on summit plateau and boy was it hard to stay upright at times!

Distance 9.21 miles.

A claggy Bowscale Tarn during descent. Too cold and windy to take many pic's!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Today’s walk up in Speyside, a short loop between Kingussie and Newtonmore via Loch Gynack. Several frogs seen from the path, a red throated diver on the loch, lots of displaying lapwings in the fields. Not much snow on the tops.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A favourite Speyside walk today, a circuit of Loch an Eilein from Inverdruie. Many dozens of frogs and toads on the paths, a great difficulty not to step on any of them but I think we managed. A pair of red throated divers on Loch Gamnha, only a few goldeneyes so far. Stumbled across one of the new beaver release sites.