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Individuals
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Mad about
Mountains
Ann Bowker's
lovely site based on Keswick. Helpful descriptions of the Marilyns and lots of
miscellaneous information on mountains. Good set of links, including the source
of my peak-bagger notes (analyse the differences and you’ll detect my
prejudices). BUT the piece-de-resistance is the set of photographs of Ann's
walks which are posted fresh almost daily.
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John Dawson on the
Lake District
More wonderful photographs with interesting route descriptions. Even the
visitors’ book
is a joy to read.
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Dave's Lakeland Mountains
Dave Newton, travelling
hopefully, in pursuit of all the Wainwrights. There's a nice set of photos
developing on the site.
The thumbnail
features Dave's dog, Megan, studying cloud inversion in the Kirkstone
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Kennedy, Paul
How to do the Wainwrights in a year. He must be a schoolteacher or live in Lancaster
to have such access to the Lakeland hills.
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Ann and John
Nuttall
Even though I've decided to pursue the Hewitt list in preference to the Nuttalls,
I treasure their two volumes on the mountains of England and Wales. I had these as a
birthday present and, with them, I can lose myself in the hills without leaving the front
room. They have lots tips on how to get the most out of your time on the hills (eg
very handy, if obscure, car parking)
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Walking
Britain This
is run by Lou Johnson who seems to live in Stafford like me. But we don't know
each other. Good on less popular walking areas. Presentationally it's very slick.
There was a time when I found the photographs are a
little disappointing but they've been getting better.
Make
sure you get yourself on the mailing list for Lou's weekly newsletter.
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Wilderness Wales
I love
this site. My mates and I are always arguing about whether to walk in the Lake
District or in Wales. I am usually in a minority of one wanting to do the
latter. Now there are quite a few good photographic sites on the Lakes but this
was the first I found on Wales. Paul Saunders runs it and he has including some
interesting "walking by numbers" material on the Welsh peaks together
with the chance to vote for your most loved and most hated tops. Click
oh the thumbnail for Paul's shot taken on one of the best valley walks in
Britain; the Ystradfellte waterfalls walk just south of Brecon. |
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Walks
in Northern England
Another site
which has good coverage of the rest of England apart from the Lake District
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Walks
in Yorkshire Ah,
God's own country. Nicely organised site with lots of general information on
equipment, map-reading, safety as well as a good quiz.
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Three
Men on a Dyke Kevin
O'Shea's description of an expedition on Offa's Dyke, written in the style of
Jerome K. Jerome. It's a joy, much enhanced by the music of Mike Oldfield (It's
just got to be from "Hergest Ridge")
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A
Digital Tour of the Mountains Looks
of odds and ends on mountains. I particularly like the quiz. |
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Mountain Art Not
exactly a walking site. It is paintings of the hills, including Tryfan and, more
surprisingly, the elegant Mount Assiniboine in the Canadian Rockies. The artist
is Anthony Cain. |
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| Best Walks
Roger Seedhouse's walking books based on Staffordshire
and Shropshire |
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Organisations |
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Ordnance Survey
The creators of the best maps in the Western spiral arm of the galaxy.
Until recently
I have had a gripe with the OS. They were very slow in publishing the new
Explorer series of maps covering Staffordshire. They've put this right now.
They have also
added the Get-a-Map feature to their web site. This is great for tracking down
those unknown hills on your lists (especially Marilyns).......provided that your
list includes the map reference.
Or if you are into
historic maps, try Old Maps. You can
get one for your home area.
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Streetmap
More on-line maps. In
some ways these are more useful than the OS ones as they are a better scale. You
can insert links to them into other websites.
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Ramblers’ Association
I have a love-hate relationship with the RA. I recognise the work they do
in maintaining the footpath network and fighting for access (support their
campaign for statutory access to open land). However I don’t like the way they
look down on rambling groups other than RA branches, even though, like Stafford
Ramblers, they might be affiliated.
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UK Weather
Self-explanatory really. The Met Office's site.
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The
Woodland Trust Information on the Trust's
woodlands that are open to the public. I have had the aim of organising a walk where
we can take in a wood and have lunch there. However on 4
Feb 2001 I found one of their woodlands by accident on a walk; it was the
Wilderness near Kinver. The photo is the evidence.
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The
Interactive Footpath
An on-line course on access
to the countryside and footpath legislation. It takes about 3 hours to work
through it all but you can work through in easier chunks. It's very informative.
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Peakware World
Mountain Encyclopaedia Your
chance to add your name to the summit log for your favourite mountain. If it's
not there, you can set up the log
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