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Chris Townsend Outdoors

April Snow on Creag Meagaidh -
Simply Delicious

Coconut Curry Noodle Soup - [image: Coconut Curry Noodle Soup] This creamy coconut curry noodle soup is an easy, comforting weeknight dinner recipe. Add some seared chicken for a boost...
Tom’s Bike Trip

No Stupid Questions: How To Deal With Racial Prejudice While Cycle Touring? - A reader writes: I’m sorry to be awkward but my question is about race. I’m planning to embark on a cross-Europe cycle tour this spring. I’ve read a lot ...
PopUpBackpacker.com

Organizing Backpacking Gear and/or a Camper - Organizer all my backpacking, camping, boating and other gear has always been less than ideal. The biggest issue was the bins were large and it was a has...
John D Burns

Harold Raeburn – The Steps of a Giant: Peter Biggar | Podcast - Harold Raeburn is acknowledged as the father of Scottish mountaineering. At the dawn of the twentieth century he was pushing the boundaries of
The Next Challenge

Meet the Winners of the 2024 Next Challenge Grant - I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Next Challenge Grant. A wonderful spread of walking, running, cycling, climbing, swimming and skiing. So...
CARROT QUINN

I’m offering an online caltopo workshop! - Do you want to learn to use caltopo.com to make hiking routes? I’m stoked to be offering a two-hour workshop on zoom on Sunday, April 28, at 11 am PST/2pm ...
northern pies

Wet Wet Wet - I'm so old now that I remember when Wet Wet Wet were just a bit damp. It seems that it's been raining since September. Occasionally, just now and then...
Ultralight and Comfortable

HMG Unbound review - HMG Unbound review On first look the unbound looks like every other UL pack released in the last couple of years. And in some ways it is a copy of smaller ...
PTC*

Tomorrow’s Dream Vol 13 - I was sorting through pages of draft posts and found this rather psychedelic photie with no words attached yet that I must have intended to do something wi...
alan sloman's big walk

TGO Challenge 2022, Days 13-14, Tarfside to St Cyrus (published from a saved draft) - *DAY 13: TARFSIDE TO NORTH WATER BRIDGE* DAY 13, WEDNESDAY. RIGHT-CLICK TO ENLARGE IN NEW WINDOWDistance: 27.0 km Ascent: 150 m LOUISE & BARRY AT...
Lonewalker

Pennine Way (North to South) 2024 – Planning - Apologies - this is a long post - and unless you’re planning on walking the Pennine Way in 2024 it’s probably not much use to you. Having said that, althou...
all the gear but no idea

Whitehaven Beach Lookout - Whitsunday Island - Whitehaven Lookout 03-01-2024 This map was created using GPS Visualizer's do-it-yourself geographic utilities. Please wait while the map data loads... ...
Dixie

2023 Trip Round Up - Before I start looking back on this year, I need to explain a couple of things about the blog. For many, many years using WordPress was free. Then a handfu...
London underfoot

Capital Ring 14/15: Hackney Wick - Beckton Park - Woolwich - Halls of residence at the University of East London campus on Royal Albert Dock. The Capital Ring concludes with an easy stroll through low-lying forme...
Louise's Big Adventure

Reflections of TGO 2023 - I've taken my time to have a good think about this post. I think we can safely say, my Challenge this year didn't go to plan. I didn't have any major ch...
v-g Backpacking in Britain Blog

Western Tarrens 2-day backpack (curtailed) - A curtailed hike of the western ridge of the Tarren hills, culminating at Tarrenhendre, descending via the Dolgoch Falls and climbing around Craig yr Adery...
Far not fast

A wet, windy wander - My friend Chris suggests a couple of night's backpacking, away from our home in the Peak District and leaves it me to choose. After some thought I suggest ...
Alex Roddie | words - mountains - imagination

Attitudes and Altitude: a new Sidetracked project, and a journey across the Alps - I'll be spending much of the rest of the summer in the Alps, trekking and a bit of running from Ventimiglia to Zermatt. It's going to be an incredible ad...
FellBound

Pennine Way: Days 16 to 17: Selfishness or Chivalry? - *Day 16 Byrness to Auchope Mountain Refuge Hut* *29.6km, 1106 metres ascent, 9 hours 40 minutes* The Cheviots: great walking country For those not too au...
My Yorkshire Dales

Guise Cliff & Yorke’s Folly - Another visit to Guise Cliff and Yorke's Folly, this time starting from Pateley Bridge and including a nice stretch of the River Nidd towards Glasshouses...
Natural Comfort Kitchen

Vegan Greek Pasta Salad - Greek salad, but better: transformed into a cool, satisfying pasta salad with a tangy, creamy (vegan!) dressing. Great for weeknight dinner or weekend picn...
Keith Foskett

I’m reading a book a week during 2021. Here are the books I read in April. - I’m reading a book a week during 2021. Here are the books I read in April. The post I’m reading a book a week during 2021. Here are the books I read in A...
Fevered Mutterings: See The World, Tell Better Stories

Why Everything Is Amazing - Oh hi, Mike. It’s been a while. Hey there. Yo. I see you’re still trying to sound trendy. You do know “yo” is an ’80s thing? Not necessarily. In Spanish it...
Mountain Coast River

Living Water Ways: Navigating Lockdown, Remembering Máiréad - Lockdown seems to be psychologically transformative. The famously grumpy guy on the street I live on is now doing pensioners’ shopping; people whose soci...
Must Be This Way

There’s a Point To The Map! - Most of the best walking days are up high but most not all. As with most things variety can ball important. So, yesterday saw me walking the Wedlock Edge f...
danielwrethamphotography

How To Photograph Rainbows - Few things in life draw as much universal admiration as a rainbow streaking across the sky with its vibrant colour spectrum, I don't know a single person w...
A Walk on the Mild Side

What a difference a year makes. Training with Woodhead Mountain Rescue. - When I last wrote, I was joining Woodhead Mountain Rescue and looking forward to a year of training. In general, I think I seriously underestimated the com...
Backpackingbongos

Under the Northern Lights - The previous week had been frustrating. I was 430 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle and the Aurora forecast had been good. Whilst deep in the wildernes...
An Sgarsoch

An east coast thing - I was in Inverurie for work with the next couple of days free. Obviously the Cairngorms were calling, but first a meander inland to climb Morven, an outlie...
blog - David Lintern

Team Heavy reprise - With the book finally submitted (bar edits, of which there will no doubt be 'some') and child 1 freed from nursery for the summer, it was time to venture...
Blog - Sweetest Menu

Funfetti Sour Cream Cookies - Sour cream makes everything better. I mean, literally, everything. You already know that I love adding sour cream to my cakes (like this one) and my che...
Peewiglet's Plog

ZOMG… I’ve written a book! - Well, sort of 🙂 I decided to spend the Easter holiday converting my various walking write-ups into an Amazon eBook. Please do take a look! Piglet, Catty a...
Alastair Humphreys

By: 5 Adventure Blogs to Keep an Eye on in 2017 - […] Alistair Humphreys […]
A Backpacker's Life

My $100 Super-ultralight Gear List: Clothing and Miscellaneous Gear - This is part six in a series about my $100 Super-Ultralight Gear List. Part six, is all about clothing and the miscellaneous gear that didn't fit into ot...
PilgrimChris.com

Camping: To Pee or Not to Pee…. - … in pee bottles? That is the question. I’m not as young as I once was (an obvious statement) and, as I grow older, I find my physical attributes changing...
Half Baked Harvest

By: Tieghan - In reply to Healthy Eats make you feel good Inside and Out! | Delish-dish...
One Small Step

This aint on party, this aint no disco, this aint no foolin' around - So, I’m sitting at the bar of the Café Royal with a pint of Guinness , half a dozen oysters, and a Colin Parsons Scotsman crossword. During the course of...
stumblingsteve | Hiking, walking, camping, rambling

Dapper Dipper - During our recent hiking trip in the Lake District I had the immense joy and pleasure of spending three lovely evenings sitting on the YHA Keswick balcony ...
Alex Roddie | words - mountains - imagination

The Cape Wrath Trail days 18 – 20 - *The Cape Wrath Trail is a long-distance hiking route in Scotland. It links Fort William with Cape Wrath, the farthest northwest point of the British ...

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