Walking for Beginners

Hiking, of course, is great fun and wonderful exercise, but you can get so much more out of it if you really know where you’re going, and it means...

You may have often, when walking or hiking, noticed a beautiful old church or an old ruined farmhouse in the midst of a field and remarked on how...

Walking is the most accessible sport in the world. It’s something virtually all of us do every day, anyway, even if it’s simply walking to lunch or...

How starting out as a walker couldn’t be any simpler. The flexibility and different styles of walking activities and how walking can mean very...

A good day’s walk does not happen purely by chance and if you want your walk to be successful you need to plan it carefully and take a number of...

If you’re planning a walk a little further afield and it’s going to be spread out over more than just a day you’re going to have to think about...

One of the attractions of walking as an activity is that you can do it virtually anywhere. Many people might not consider themselves ‘committed’...

The Lake District has long featured in literature, as the inspiration and home of the poet Wordsworth to the setting for the famous Swallows and...

People start walking for a number of different reasons. It can be for the health benefits, which are numerous, to be greener in their lives, or...

Although prior preparation before you go out on your walking trip should ensure that you are easily able to get out of a situation if you become...

Whilst the vast majority of walking trips go off without a hitch it’s also important to be prepared for any eventuality and, unfortunately accidents...

The kinds of things you should take with you if planning a day long walking trip. What to pack to meet your basic needs and ensuring that you carry...

There’s plenty of countryside in which to roam in Britain, and since the Open Access laws took effect, there’s even more of it, with millions of...