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I do hope that you have enjoyed visiting this site but please keep in mind that it is not intended to be a guidebook. It is simply a personal record of my walks, so please do not follow any of the routes without making sure that you are properly equipped and prepared

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Andrew Locking  

Andrew's Walks 1,000th Wainwright on Low Fell

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Susan Armstrong Robinson from Ormskirk wrote on 5 December, 2022
Hi Andrew, Just to say what a lovely walk to High Rigg through St J in the Vale. Intimate, quiet, gentle. The pines' capitulation to "The Beast ..." so sad but redolent of nature. Thanks again for your wonderful mapping of nature and stirring of happy memories on the fells. xx
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Darren Newell from Auckland wrote on 24 November, 2022
Hi Andrew, hope you are well. Still love to follow your walks, many a great photo and memories for me. Love looking at the ones of Corner House and High Lorton, absolute fantastic treasured memories of those times.
Keep enjoying life and let the rest of us watch in envy. All the best my friend.
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Susan Armstrong Robinson from Ormskirk wrote on 30 October, 2022
Hi Andrew, Just want to say a huge thank you for your superb photographs and videos which bring back many happy memories of traversing the fells. I particularly love your pics of Buttermere, Crummock Water and surrounding fells. Melbreak has been a revelation, a stalwart sentinel. A lot of people gain so much pleasure and satisfaction from your work. It seems to be a labour born out of love and it shines through every picture. x
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Eva Nagy from London wrote on 25 October, 2022
Hi Andrew! My boyfriend and I were having a nightmare 6-year anniversary when our car broke down on our way to Scafell Pike before we could even start our hike! Thankfully a helpful engineer, new tyre, and lots of time spent on your website browsing, the day was saved! We had just enough time in the afternoon for a short walk and although didn’t do the half marathon we were hoping to, we did complete your Friars Crag walk and had the most beautiful time, thank you for your content, photos, and charisma! We will be following your walks with great interest
Love,
Nic and Eva
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June Peacock from York wrote on 22 October, 2022
Hi Andrew,
I just want to say a big thank you for sharing your walks and photos. I love to go to Buttermere for my October birthday and have recently done so. I have just seen your photos of Buttermere from 19th October, it was like having a second birthday! Thank you so much!
All the very best for your future walks.
June.
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Cat Podmore from Manchester wrote on 11 October, 2022
We did the Rosthwaite to Seathwaite circular walk and the Autumn colours were absolutely beautiful! Just wanted to drop you a message to say thank you for sharing your walks and we loved the circular walk! Keep hiking and sharing your adventures!
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Paulina Birchall from Hornchurch wrote on 8 October, 2022
Hi Andrew
Your Yew Crag walk took my right back to my Bolton wakes week holidays in the Lake District when I was a little girl with my family and dad would always take up Barrow and mum would take us mushroom foraging using her Scandinavian foraging knowledge and skills.
Your photos even evoked all the smells of the fells in early autumn.
Marvellous.
Thank You
Paulina 🍁🍄🍁🍄
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John Wylie from Carlton, Wakefield. wrote on 6 October, 2022
Hi Andrew, hope you are both well. The pictures you posted of your walking holiday on the Isle of Barra in September were just stunning. You were so lucky with the weather, every day was good.
All the Best, John.
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Gill from Shrewsbury wrote on 5 October, 2022
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful photographs and walk descriptions. Both are indeed inspirational and uplifting and shows just how varied the landscapes are in the UK, let alone overseas. Your website is a joy!
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Andrew and Joanne from Potten End, Berkhamsted wrote on 27 September, 2022
We undertook your Rabacal Valley walk last week via the Levada. It was magical. Trekking through a tropical forest without the need for a machete. Walking was straight forward other than the constant need to stop and take in the breath-taking views. We tackled the tunnel, which when you emerged opened up into a high gorge with waterfall over it. A fabulous warm afternoons walk. Whilst in Maderia we also followed the PR 3.1 from Monte to Pico Alto which was part pilgrimage and part gentle mountain scramble. Again, beautiful views with peace and tranquillity. Whilst visiting the Cabo Girao the Sky walk over the 580m cliff we accidently found the Levada do Norte which follows the southern coast for a while, other than locals taking short cuts this was deserted with beautiful sea and village views. Finally, we got the bus from Funchal to the Nuns Valley, Curral das Freiras. This place is like a small-scale Yosemite, jaw droppingly beautiful. What an Island.
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Paulina Birchall from Hornchurch wrote on 11 September, 2022
Hi Andrew
I’ve really enjoyed your Barra excursion and there is nothing better than an Outer Hebridean sunset reflecting back at you.
Can you still buy a curry on Barra?
Kind Regards
Paulina
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Andrew and Joanne from Potten End wrote on 9 September, 2022
What a place to be on a day like this 😞. Your photos have brought back great memories from Barra Feb 2015. I only found your site this week when searching walks for Madeira for Jo and I, but have since found multiple walks and photos that again bring back fabulous memories of our first love, the Lake District
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Brian Sheehy from London wrote on 12 August, 2022
Hi Andrew, this is an absolutely glorious site which I am sure will provide inspiration for walking holidays in the future - sometimes I feel like I don't know where to start. Here's hoping you stay fit and healthy and get to add more amazing content to this site for many more years.
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Joy from Stratford-upon-Avon wrote on 1 August, 2022
We very much enjoy your walk descriptions and images. They've been an excellent source of inspiration and advice for some years. Recently we enjoyed the same walking holiday in the Bernese Oberland that you did, Andrew, in 2019. Your notes gave us some very helpful tips. We were sorry (?!) to read the weather wasn't good enough for you to walk to Adelboden via the Bunderchrinde Pass - we were pleased (maybe satisfied is a better word!) that we did it though won't be doing it again any time soon!
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Stephen and Jane Wright from Kilham Driffield wrote on 5 July, 2022
We have followed your wonderful walks over the last few years and have enjoyed every one. Spent four days in South Shropshire last week and were greatly missing your input! Can we suggest you walk this wonderful unspoilt area, a real hidden gem! Recommend Castle Hotel Bishops Castle.
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John & Wendy from Wakefield wrote on 3 July, 2022
We’ve only just stumbled on your website this morning through OS maps. We'd just like to say, what a beautiful site you have, easy to navigate with good descriptions and stunning photographs. Thank you for sharing we love it
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Vera from Germany wrote on 12 June, 2022
I stumbled upon your website while preparing for a vacation in the Lake District. It was a wonderful source of inspiration, I followed some of your routes and used pieces of others for planning my own walks. The links to your routes on OutdoorActive where hugely helpful with that. Thank you for your dedication and all your beautiful pictures - they made me so excited for my trip and now serve as a great reminder of my week in the Lake District.
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Malcolm Hills from New Marske, Near Redcar. wrote on 24 April, 2022
Thank you for the lovely pictures and description of the walk (Goathland to Grosmont Rail Trail), I enjoyed everything about it.
I'm saving your link so I can enjoy more walks.
Malcolm
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David Glover from Hastings Victoria Australia wrote on 19 April, 2022
Your pictures evoked the memory of Robert Brownings poem "Oh to be in England now that April's there" which Geoffrey Palmer recites on the YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DgAz7ksiJM (among many other versions).
Thanks you again for your delightful images.
David Glover
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Liz B from Nottingham wrote on 15 April, 2022
What a wonderful website. I’ve really enjoyed looking through all your photos. Stumbled across it as I researched walks in Mallorca but kept scrolling through to look at all your other walks in the UK! Really fabulous.
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