Wednesday May 2nd. Worzel Gummidge Wander. 14 miles from Hornby. Leader: Mary Robinson. 16 walkers and 4 dogs. The weather forecast was for grey skies but no rain. Hooray! The last few walks have been very wet and cold affairs. True to the forecasters word we didn't have any rain and that…
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Sunday April 1st. Coope's Dozen. 20 miles from Rivington. Leader: Gordon Stone. What a glorious day for climbing some hills! It was my first time leading a walk and a new route to boot. Seventeen bipeds and a couple of quadrupeds (canine variety) started out from Rivington (our…
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Sunday March 4th. Around Edale. 16 miles from Mam Tor c.p. Leader: John Jocys. 11 Walkers. Around Edale, 4th March 2012 16 miles, 3800 ft of ascent The Mountain Weather Information Service (MWIS) forecast for the Peak District wasn't good, sadly it was quite accurate. At 9am, 11 walkers +…
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Wednesday February 1st. Walsden to Mytholmroyd. 14 miles from Walsden. Leader Mike Lee. 19 walkers and 1 dog. We were pleased to welcome three new faces, as well as some old ones, to the group of nineteen people and one dog who met in Walsden to trek the wintry moors above Calderdale. The walk…
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Monday 2 January 2012: A Ray of Sunshine Leader: Norman Thomas 20 Miles Norman's Ray of Sunshine walk. A group of 20 of us met in the car park of the Blundel Arms, Horwich, for the start of the first East Lancs walk of 2012. Soon after 08:30 Norman asked us to gather…
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The Alternative Up and Over Three souls naive enough to believe what is printed in Strider turned up at the Blue Lagoon on 7 December. Once we realised that the more savvy members would not be joining us, we changed the start point to Phil's house near Moss Bank Park. He then led us around the…
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