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Standedge to Mankinholes: Day 3 of my 50th Anniversary #PennineWay hike

11th June 2015 PilgrimChris 1 Comment My Adventures, Solo Adventures

Date: Saturday 24 May 2015 Standedge to Mankinholes. Approx 15 miles.     What a difference a night makes! Only a few hours before I had been sitting with Silka and Annette outside The Carriage House enjoying drinks in the sunshine and here I am the following morning taking a picture of these two delightful ladies in […]

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Torside to Standedge: Day 2 of my 50th anniversary #pennineway hike

11th June 2015 PilgrimChris Leave a comment My Adventures, Solo Adventures

Date: Friday 23 May 2015 Torside to Standedge. Approx 16 miles.   “Are you @PilgrimChris?“ These were the words that greeted me as I sat eating a full English breakfast at Torside Old House B&B this morning. It isn’t the first time I have been approached with this question – my Twitter account is very […]

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Edale to Torside: Day 1 of my 50th anniversary #pennineway hike

29th May 201511th June 2015 PilgrimChris Leave a comment Solo Adventures

Date: Friday 22 May 2015 Edale to Torside. Approx 15 miles.   So… back on the Pennine Way again. This is my third attempt to thru-hike this iconic trail from Edale in the heart of the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish side of the England/Scotland border. I have section walked 95% of […]

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My Hiking Demons: Thoughts as I prepare to conquer my Pennine Way nemesis.

10th May 201510th May 2015 PilgrimChris 4 Comments ...on Hiking, My Thoughts

As I mentally prepare to set off for my Pennine Way hike on May 23rd I want to share with you some thoughts inspired, in part, by both my past 2 failed attempts to thru-hike this iconic trail and also by my good friend and hiking buddy Stuart Greig’s (aka @LoneWalkerUK) recent decision to stop […]

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January #microadventure – Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Plover Hill circular

13th March 201514th March 2015 PilgrimChris 8 Comments Accompanied Adventures, My Adventures
Plover Hill

Last year (2014) was a year of hiking plans gone awry. For whatever reasons, I was unable to follow my dream of hiking and backpacking around the UK for a year and this disappointment left me feeling a little deflated to say the least. It wasn’t just the fact that I had to abandon my […]

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My Hiking Plans for 2015

22nd January 20153rd February 2015 PilgrimChris 16 Comments My Adventures
Planning a Hike

2014 was in many ways a disappointing year for me. At least as for as hiking goes. I had planned to hike around England living out of my backpack for at least a year and went so far as to give up my home to do so. However, after only a few weeks on the […]

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Happy Simply Walking The Path

8th April 20146th February 2015 PilgrimChris Leave a comment ...on Hiking, Feature, My Thoughts
Path

    To say my life over the past few years has been a roller-coaster is no understatement, yet how many people would say differently about their own lives? It’s true, that for periods of time, life seems to just amble along through the familiar landscape of work, family life and sleep. But there is […]

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