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Message 833: Hello Mike, I wanted to mail you to say thanks for the walk details on an improvised Yorkshire Two Peaks (Penyghent and Ingleborough). Sadly we didn't complete it but what we did complete was very enjoyable. In fact one of the loveliest walks I have done. Your map was very useful indeed. One of our number was a bit undone the steep ascent of Penyghent at the start as he had not done much of that sort of stuff before. After that he was fine and did well but we had lost a lot of time. We got to the bottom of Ingleborough (the 4 cottages) and it was 3.00pm so we decided to just walk back on that side of the valley. It was the right decision as it was 4.40pm by the time we got back. I am definitely going to do it at some point and the 3 Peaks looks appealing though Whernside seemed a long way away. The next day we did the Gordale Scar, Malham Tarn, Malham Cove walk which suited everyone. Then I put on my running stuff and ran back to Settle using the road that goes near Malham Tarn. It is going to be some time before I do a run as stunning as that again. Thanks again From: Glyn Ashman Town/City: Country: England Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 Message 832: Hello, Do you know of any walks that cover a distance of 100 kilometres across public paths? In the Essex area or near too? A walk that I wouldnt have to tag on to an organised event for and would not have to pay registration fees to charities. My friends and I just want to challenge ourselves to 100K in 24 hours with minimal costs. We are in the military so do not mind a challenge, do you know any or could you point me in the right direction? 'I pointed Sheree in the direction of websites on the Essex Way and Hertfordshire Way, either which would suit her requirements' From: Sheree Ali Town/City: Essex Country: England Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 Message 831: Mike, morning... thanks for the mail. I have now downloaded the file, loaded it onto my GARMIN, tested it and am ready and looking forward to the Friday adventure. Thanks again for you prompt reply and the great site website... From: Darren Clare Town/City: Bolton Country: England Date: Wednesday 01 February 2012 Message 830: Hi, I'm trying to download the GPS file for your walk 'Great Gable via Sourmilk Gill' but it says the file doesn't exist? I've downloaded a few walks as GPS files from your site with no problem, I'm heading out there for an early start on Friday, don't suppose there's any chance you could help is there? 'I told Darren the file download problem is now fixed and attached a text file with instructions on how to open them' From: Darren Clare Town/City: Bolton Country: England Date: Tuesday 31 January 2012 Message 829: Hi, can you help with some maps please? The walks I would like maps for are A Wharram Percy Walk, A Welton Walk, A Sledmere and Cottam Walk, A Brantingham and Elloughton Walk and Beverley and the Beverley Westwood. Thanks. 'I mailed Lucy large image maps of the walks she would like to do From: Lucy Horseman Town/City: East Yorkshire Country: England Date: Tuesday 31 January 2012 Message 828: Hello Mike, We already have reciprocal links, but I'm updating my site with "photo-links", so I am asking other website authors to provide a photo, ideally 200x150, for this purpose. It could be their logo, one of themselves or maybe a favourite photo etc. I'll then put the link through the photo. I notice you recently went up Bowscale Fell - I was lucky to do the same just last Saturday. What a great day to be up on the fells! I've also noticed that Ali Watson of Clitheroe has been in touch. I used to know Ali quite well - 25 years ago! But we lost touch and at that time neither of us would have been seen dead or alive in walking boots, so I'm looking forward to meeting up again, maybe on Pendle Hill - it's a popular spot for both of us. Thanks in anticipation, or if you don't find the time to send a pic, I'll use my initiative! Keep up the good work. From: Richard Ratcliffe Town/City: Lancashire Country: England Date: Monday 30 January 2012 Message 827: Hi. This site is brilliant. My husband and I are really interested in attempting the Kettlewell, Buckden Pike, Great Whernside and then back to Kettlewell walk. I believe its about 12 to 13 miles. We both did the Three Peaks quite a few years ago and are just getting back into the walking. I was trying to access the files for the route but unforetunately this has come up with an error. Could you point me in the right direction as to where I may acquire it from. Many Thanks for a wonderful website. 'As I had told previous enquirers I told Lisa I am working on the .gpx files problem. In the meantime I emailed her the Buckden and Great Whernside walk files' From: Lisa Smith Town/City: Country: England Date: Monday 30 January 2012 Message 826: Hi Mike, Firstly thanks for putting all the free walks, I plan on doing a lot of them this year. I live in Leeds and was planning on doing the Eccup Resevoir walk using the GPX file, however it states file not found. Is it possible to correct this as I find this really useful? 'I told Barry I'm working on the .gpx files problem. In the meantime I am emailing him the files he needs' From: Barry Maskell Town/City: Leeds Country: England Date: Saturday 28 January 2012 Message 825: Hello Mike, I took your Yorkshire 2000's list, converted the OS grid references into GPS and plotted them on this Google Map. I also took your comments and put them in the description. My self and a few friends plan on bagging them all this year. :) Hope you dont mind me using your information! 'I told Oliver to use the information freely and to enjoy bagging the Yorkshire 2000's in 2012' From: Oliver Lees Town/City: Harrogate Country: England Date: Friday 27 January 2012 Message 824: We were looking for Yorkshire Walks around Leeds and discovered your site. Thee walks are excellent and ideal for two families with kids. Many thanks for all the hard work we all appreciate your superb effort. From: Roger Town/City: Leeds Country: England Date: Friday 27 January 2012 Message 823: Hi Mike, Thanks for the effort you make with the website! Ive been bitten by the bug for sure, scrambling and basic climbing being the main thrill. The Snowdon Horseshoe was a blast. We are just debating whether to camp at Great Langdale (been there before on the motorbike), wild camp at Stickle Tarn or just drive home after doing your Pavey Ark walk. Incidentally someone who camped at Stickle Tarn said they drunk and topped up fluids from the tarn, im not sure it's a great idea unless you boiled it, What do you think? 'I replied to Jon by saying there are sometimes a few sheep grazing near Stickle Tarn so if I were to use water from the tarn I would boil it first' From: Jon Baldwin Town/City: Country: England Date: Thursday 26 January 2012 Message 822: Hi, Only just found this site. Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for your time, effort and dedication. I will make good use of your site. Thanks again. From: Jeff Clark Town/City: Country: England Date: Thursday 26 January 2012 Message 821: Hi Mike, You don't know me from Adam, but I've been following your site since I started my fell-walking hobby (obsession!!). I'm fairly new to it, with only 3 years under my belt, but since I well and truly caught the bug one icy day up the Pike O'Stickle, yours is the site I've been using longest for gaining information and inspiration when planning a walk. Although I like to research and plan my own route most of the time (generally using path and feature info pieced together from other walkers sites), there are quite a few walks that I've "lifted" directly from yours, hope you don't mind. In my first two years of walking, I used to take photos and email them out to any interested parties, i.e. others who had been walking with me, or missed the walk, or just friends and family. Not ideal. I also soon started to realise that as time goes on, everyone, especially me, started to forget incidents and circumstances that made any particular walk special - mostly amusing things, but also difficulties and dangers, or even a really good well deserved pint at the end etc. etc. So I decided to create my own site the hold photos and preserve these memories and I've been working on it for the last year. Part way through development, it struck me that it's obviously not just myself who's interested in posting their walks to a website, due to the number of walking sites out there. I thought with a bit of effort I could make the site multiuser, then others out there (particularly those without the knowledge of how to create their own site, or even those without the time or inclination) would be able to post their own walks for family and friends to view. I think it's just about ready for others to use now. I'd really appreciate it if you could have a glance over the site - http://www.logmywalks.com, and if you feel it's worthy, post a link to it on your own site. Also if you do approve, and know anyone out there who may benefit from using it (it is free, and I intend to keep it that way), please feel free to point them in its direction. Many thanks and All the best for now. From: Ali Watson Town/City: Lancashire Country: England Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012 Message 820: Hi, I wanted to know if there are and planned walk for : Malham Cove, Malham Tarn and Gordale Scar Walk. The walk looks very appealing to me. Currently I'm a one man army would prefer doing the walk in a group if possible. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Regards. 'I put Yassa in touch with a Walking Forum to see if I could match them up to do the walk' From: Yassa Town/City: Country: England Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012 Message 819: Brilliant site however seems to be a problem today can't get any gpx files, comes with with an error? Anyone else having the same problem? 'I told Eric the problem is remote server side and a fix will bring a resolution soon. In the meantime I told him I would mail him any files her needed which also applies to any enquirer of any facility on the site which may be temporarily inaccessible' From: Eric Bailey Town/City: Yorkshire Country: England Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012 Message 818: Hello, We are hoping to go camping at Inverewe, Northern Scotland this coming May/ June and wondered if you have done any walking in the hills of Wester Ross? Thank you. PS fantastic web site, love it!! 'I told Andy I walked through Wester Ross on my 1,000 Mile Walk last year and pointed him in the direction of the stages I did in north-west Scotland' From: Andrew Capstick Town/City: Country: England Date: Tuesday 24 January 2012 Message 817: A very good site on my favorite walking areas. Very nice, thank you. From: Frank & Sue Dawson Town/City: Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Country: England Date: Monday 23 January 2012 Message 816: Anyone walking on Dartmoor should seriously consider staying at The Forest Inn. We've been there several years running. It may appear a bit shabby but it welcomes walkers and their dogs and their boots. Not only that, a few good walks start there – the classic Top Hat, three serene and not so serene ambles into Princeton where can be found the Fox Tor cafe and bunkhouse. They don't mind when you bring the weather in and the food's good. Best of all, Dartmoor is a place where you can still walk for half a day and see no-one closer than a mile. Try doing that over a weekend in the Peaks. And to prove it, we're back there this September. From: Lynda Plant Town/City: Country: England Date: Monday 23 January 2012 Message 815: I am looking to do the Yorkshire Three Peaks in May 2012. Can you advise the best guidebook please? Many thanks 'I put Les's question to my Walking Forum friends and sent him their responses' From: Les Law Town/City: Country: England Date: Monday 23 January 2012 Message 814: Found your site while looking for walks around my home in Harrogate. I have now done a whole lot of walking and hiking in Harrogate and the dales. Your site has been an inspiration for many of my walks so I just wanted to thank you. Maybe one day we will unknowingly cross paths and nod our heads as we go on our way and enjoy gods own county. From: Oliver Lees Town/City: Harrogate Country: England Date: Saturday 21 January 2012 Message 813: Hi, just to let you know that my husband Peter and I came across your web site by accident and we are extremely impressed. We mainly walk in the Black Mountains and the Breacon Beacons. Your website is amazing and has given us lots of ideas - would it be possible to have a section with circular walks? We have got lots and would be happy to share. 'I said of course so expect some more free walks in Wales on the website soon, all thanks to Karola' From: Karola Bruckner Town/City: Hereford Country: England Date: Tuesday 17 January 2012 Message 812: Hello again, I cannot believe it is 2010 since I last contacted you. Well I completed the Dalesway at Easter 2011 with a day off on the 29th April to celebrate the royal wedding at a very nice pub in Appletreewick. What an enterprising landlord, he had a big screen and was serving coffee, then lunch and the place was packed with holiday makers all enjoying the big day. The walk was lovely and the time of year perfect, the wooded sections were full of wild flowers. One of the most spectacular walks was from Grassington over the top and down into Kettlewell where I treated myself to a cream tea!!! before carrying on to Starbotton. The following day I walked up to Beckermonds. I was brought up in West Yorkshire and spent many happy days in the Dales as a child but I have never before gone beyond Hubberhome; what a lovely dale and great walking. I met lots of really interesting people along the way. Again I averaged 10 miles a day, and the weather was wonderful. One other memorable evening of this walk was a visit to a very busy Sun Inn in Dent, where we enjoyed a good pub meal and lots of chat with fellow campers from the site in the centre of the village. Our motorhome was again the back up with my husband as driver, he was not very impressed with the width of the road in Dentdale, but he managed. I cannot stress enough what a great walk the Dales Way is and I encourage anyone to try it. The only mistake I made was to begin on Easter bank holiday Monday and Bolton Abbey was heaving!!! Never seen so many cars and people, but I made it through. The next walk is the Cumbria way, which I am combining with a visit to some friends in the Lake District who are celebrating their silver wedding in early June. Thank you again for your great website with information and feedback, I think I shall try and do the Wolds Way as well, later in the year. In fact I think I should just move back North!! From: Rachael Harvey Town/City: Newmarket, Suffolk Country: England Date: Saturday 14 January 2012 Message 811: Hello, I am looking to make a short walk into Redcar (Yorkshire) this summer. It's a pilgrimage to my late husband's birthplace, and I would like to retrace at least some of the steps he took years ago when he walked along the coast from (I believe it was) Harwich to Redcar. I only have about three days, and I was wondering if a walk along in North Moors along the coast would be possible, with two overnight stops at B&B's I would hope. If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate it. 'I am helping Carolyn plan a walk along the Yorkshire coastline to suit her plans' From: Carolyn Affleck Youngs Town/City: Victoria Country: Canada Date: Tuesday 10 January 2012 Message 810: Hi Mike, So sorry I didn't get back to you on our return but had family crisis and completely forgot. We walked round Brimham Rocks a few times as we were so close, and the woods and hills past Menwith. Also went to the Chevin, but didn't have time to go to Blubberhouse Moors or Bolton Abbey that I had been hoping to go to. the week just went so quickly...................they will have to wait till the next trip!! I love the landscape of that part pf the country, I do enjoy living down here at the New Forest, but miss the rolling hills and the quite dramatic scenery. Anyway sorry to ramble on, but thanks again for your help and suggestions. Best Wishes. From: Pauline Goodband Town/City: New Forest Country: England Date: Sunday 08 January 2012 Message 809: Dear Mike Happy New Year to you! I would just like to thank you for your excellent website, it is really helping me on my way. I am very new to peak bagging, the only real one of any note I have 'bagged' being Shutlingsloe in the Peak District. Next up we are going to try the Roaches and Hen Cloud in nearby Leek or maybe Shining Tor. I was just after some advice if possible as I am very new to this game. Would you recommend getting a few smaller peaks in first before attacking anything bigger? And when the time does come to go bigger which peak do you think would be the best to have a go at? I've heard Skiddaw isn't too demanding, would that be right? The aim eventually will then be to summit Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike and my dream of walking up Mount Fuji would be the absolute pinnacle! Once again thanks for your excellent website! From: Matthew Harding Town/City: t Country: England Date: Tuesday 03 January 2012 |
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