Girlguiding SWE and LaSER always have a Dartmoor training and leisure walking weekend the weekend of the 20-somethingth of September. I usually go. I did my training in 2014 and I use the leisure weekend to build up my logbook. You used to email them and request a place and now there’s an event site… More A solo logbook walk on Dartmoor
What’s going on? New polar bear post on a Tuesday? I don’t do Tuesdays. Well, now I do! I’m having a go at YouTube and because I only have 9 followers at the moment, I thought I’d post them here on the blog as well in the hope that a few more people notice my… More Video: I walked the South Downs Way
It’s three and a half weeks since I walked the South Downs Way and I guess it’s time to switch my brain on and do a little analysis. I knew what this post was going to say, word for word, while I was limping through the countryside but when I got home and tried to… More What I learned about myself, long-distance hiking and kit on the South Downs Way
I’ve talked many times about my Level 2 Walking Qualification but I realise I’ve always been a bit vague about what that involves. Well, in 2023 I want to get at least three more logbook walks and so in recognition of putting at least a little work into it, I’m going to start the year… More I’m working towards my Open country walking qualification
Today was supposed to be about packing for a winter glamping trip, aka what you need to take to survive in an uninsulated tin can in December but then this video popped up in my YouTube subscriptions today. It features Iceland and specifically Meradalir and you know I can’t resist commenting on that kind of… More Tom Scott goes to Meradalir
On Thursday, I left you at the foot of Fan Brycheiniog, after having climbed to the summit and then descended the sharp ridge and walked down the mountain that way. It was getting dark by the time we got back to the car and pretty properly dark by the time we were driving back to… More I decided not to climb a mountain in Wales!
At the weekend I went to Wales for a Region level 3 walking weekend. In our part of the country, landscapes that fit the Remote criteria are a bit harder to get at than they might be for people who live further north, so when we do a level 3 walking weekend, it’s usually in… More I climbed a mountain in Wales
Welcome to part two of my Dartmoor weekend! Today we’re off on a different route, in the hope of getting another logbook walk. But today we’re setting off in two groups rather than splitting up. In theory, that’s because there are now eight of us and that’s a tiny bit big for a walking group.… More A shorter walk up tors and across downs
Last weekend I went to Dartmoor and this is the first of two posts on the walks I did. It was a joint Girlguiding Region walking weekend, the aim of which is to run a level 2 walking training but there’s room at the centre for a few extra so it’s open to leisure walkers… More A tor-bagging walk around Haytor
Welcome to 2022! Traditionally, the first or second post of any year is my Christmas Adventure With Tom, depending on whether I have time to finish it in time for the first post of the New Year, and this year here it is up first – with some changes. Of course there are changes. We’re still… More Two Bears and a Barnacle