A Walkers Tale

Today I am off to complete a walk that I have done before, but never got enough photos to do a writeup with - and this walk is the first stretch of the Cleveland Way from Helmsley round to Thirsk.

Today we are back on the Pennine Way , and having walked an excellent segment of this trail between Bowes and Hawes on the previous day, we are today continuing on to Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

Today I am back ticking off sections of the Pennine Way , and am taking on a fairly long stretch of the trail, between Bowes and Hawes - with the plan being to continue on to Horton-in-Ribblesdale on the following day (an easier day of walking)

On the previous day I had walked the Ridgeway from Goring to Princes Risborough , and today the plan is to continue to walk round to the eastern end of the trail at Ivinghoe Beacon.

Recently I have decided that I should focus a bit more on ticking off the National Trails. And whilst completing a selection of the National Trails has been a goal for some time, it has to compete with my desire to explore any bit of countryside that takes my fancy (and all the major canals as well). This does create something of a scheduling problem, but I have adjusted my plans, bumped up the priority for walks along National Trails - and decided that the best way to start ticking off more National Trails is to start a new one. And so today, the new one in question is the Ridgeway - which is fairly short at 87 miles, but also one that looks particularly interesting at it's western end (as it crosses the North Wessex Downs).

On the surface, accessing the northern end of the Pennine Way looks to be a fairly complex endeavor - but whilst planning a walk along Hadrian's Wall , I realised that the combination of train and then bus makes access to (and beyond) the wall possible for a day walk. And so today, the plan is to use one of the train-bus links to get up to Bellingham (via Hexham) - and then walk the Pennine Way towards Hadrian's Wall - before finishing up at Bardon Mill.