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Chris Townsend Outdoors

A Local Ski Tour Before Storm Bert Arrives -
Simply Delicious

Easy Green Bean Salad - Crisp-tender green beans topped with crispy onions and flaked almonds makes for the most delicious hearty green bean salad. We love this served with ever...
PTC*

King Creosote - One of my favourite artists of recent times has been King Creosote. After a few skirmishes with various songs over the years it was the soundtrack to From ...
PopUpBackpacker.com

Book Review: The Secret Knowledge of Water, by Craig Childs - Back in September of this year I reviewed three of my favorite “desert” books. All three were written over 50 years ago. Here I review another that is ...
v-g Backpacking in Britain Blog

South Machno Hills 2-day backpack - A 2-day varied solo trek of the hills and quarries on the south side of the Machno valley. Hoovering up unclimbed 500m summits is an occasionally useful te...
Ultralight and Comfortable

Lundhags Padje Light 60L Review: A Minimalist Backpack with Maximum Performance - _____________________________________________________________ The Lundhags Padje Light 60L is a lightweight hiking pack designed for hikers and backpackers...
Dixie

Pebbles And Islay Go Nadventuring - 🐾i’s dun a little vidio of owr adventures its only 5 minits long but better than mums vidios🐾
Lonewalker

Pennine Way (North to South) 2024 – Intermission 2 - It’s been a little over four weeks since I spat my dummy out and walked away from the second leg of the Pennine Way, taking my proverbial ball with me. It ...
Tom’s Bike Trip

No Stupid Questions: How To Avoid Catching Malaria When Cycling Across Asia? - A reader writes: I’ve been following you for about five years now. Am retiring next summer and setting off in May 26 for a ride to Bali. I currently live...
CARROT QUINN

April Utah Intermediate Guided Backpacking Trips! - Applications are now open for my April 2025 Utah Intermediate Guided Backpacking Trips! Two nights at a rental house in Escalante, Utah, five days/four nig...
northern pies

TGO 2023 or Pieman's 19th Nervous Breakdown - Mallaig to Inverie Ferry It's now the end of August 2024 (if it isn't, please don't point this out in comments because I won't publish them.) Anyway, A...
John D Burns

Jen Scotney: Running Through the Dark | Podcast - John D. Burns talks to ultra runner Jen Scotney about the solace she found in running and how she has coped with the
all the gear but no idea

Frank Hurley Head & Mount Banks - Blue Mountains National Park - Mount Banks 18-08-2024 This map was created using GPS Visualizer's do-it-yourself geographic utilities. Please wait while the map data loads... *Route:...
My Yorkshire Dales

Exploring the Underground Wonders of the Yorkshire Dales: A Guide to Caves and Caverns - The Yorkshire Dales is renowned for its stunning above-ground scenery, with rolling hills, craggy limestone formations, and quaint villages. However, ben...
Louise's Big Adventure

Reflections TGO 24 - This Challenge was important. I needed to complete my 9th Challenge, I needed to successfully cross Scotland so I can try to get my 10th next year. It's...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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