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The Green Trod – A Walk Along a Drove Road
THERE are little doorways in our perception of the world and they open and close unexpectedly to keep us on our toes. I’m walking through Teesdale, across a plateau of bog and heather above the river...
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Beinn Dearg – A Teenage Dream
I LIKE Beinn Dearg. It’s a mountain with character way out in the backcountry. And I like the sound it makes when people pronounce its name correctly. It’s like the call of a bird or the noise of a...
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Hambleton Hills – A Walk and a Sonnet
I’VE been delving into Wordsworth again – and like last time I’m going to set him tentatively aside. Despite the pertinent fact he wrote a sonnet entitled Composed After a Journey Across the Hambleton...
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Day Return to Bloworth Crossing . . . and Beyond
A walk along the mineral railways of the North York Moors . . . Continue reading →
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A Pennine Trek, Part 1 – Moorland and Mustard Gas
The first stage of a three-day walk from Bowes to Hexham . . . Continue reading →
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A Pennine Trek, Part 2 – A Night Beneath Hangman Hill
McEff continues his backpacking trip to Hexham . . . Continue reading →
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A Pennine Trek, Part 3 – Hell and High Walking
The concluding episode of McEff's Pennine walk . . . Continue reading →
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Days Like These, No 9: Clearing the Mind on the Cluanie Ridge
THERE are mornings I wake up with a head full of heaviness and pull the flysheet back to reveal an outside world full of more heaviness. Today is one of those mornings. Fog fills Strath Croe. Trees...
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A Fosdyke Saga
HERE’S an interesting fact. Fosdyke Wash, which is a beach at the mouth of the River Welland, in Lincolnshire, is the nearest strip of coast to the most inland point of Great Britain. In other words,...
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