The Walking Blog
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Fear of heights on Lundy Island
How to visit Lundy and have a holiday that is physically and mentally refreshing, rather than draining, and allows for a level of challenge and adventure pitched to avoid both boredom and terror?
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Tips for choosing a challenge event.
Choosing the right event can make all the difference between a great day and a frustating slog that doesn’t achieve your goals. So what should you look for?
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Our year’s foraging
It’s been a great year for foraging but, as always, it’s the stuff you don’t manage to do that sticks in the mind.
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Coppicing
Time for the second of this winter’s conservation activities in our neck of the woods. A particularly appropriate phrase, that last one, since today we will be coppicing some hazel growing in a corner of a local nature reserve.
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Down the park with the Countryside Service
With autumn well and truly under way, and winter on the horizon, it’s time for conservation volunteering to pick up where it left off last spring. In our neck of the woods this means the arrival of emails from the county council’s Countryside Service listing monthly opportunities to get out into the local great outdoors,…