originaldrum said:if any of you ever end up New Zealand ways, you have to check out these walks
Tongariro trail - 10 hours
Rakiura trail - 3 days
Queen Charlotte trail - 4 days
they are all awsome, pack out what you pack in type walks, some have bunkers (tongariro) which i spose are like fancy bothy's (sp)
Helen said:Now and again we go exploring stormwater drains and the like, full of interesting surprises like steps-cum-waterfalls, sudden high caverns, nice graffiti and secret messages.
Didn't make it down any drains when last in London but here are some sites detailing potentially interesting subterranean excursions around the UK;
<li><a href="http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/" target="_blank">Disused Stations on the London Underground</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sub-urban.com/main.htm" target="_blank">Explorable subterranean tunnels and abandoned sites across the UK</a></li>
There's a good all-day walk from Blackheath Point to Alexandra Palace - about 14 miles and you hardly do any streets at all.
Start at Blackheath Point, strain your eyes to see Ally Pally hill on the horizon. Then Greenwich foot tunnel to the Isle of Dogs, follow the river round to Limehouse basin (nice mid-morning pint), pick up the canal (stop in Mile End for fry up lunch), there's a bit of a hack through Highbury to pick up the Parkway in Finsbury Park, then it's woods all the way to the Palace. Turn round and strain your eyes to see where you've come from (hint: it's the hill behind the one you think it is).
Hard work but very satisfying.
go walking you funky house psychos.
Be careful!
There's an incredible walk Id like to take you all on. Includes the grave of Aideen, a 6000 year old Dolmen, scrabbles up steep hills through undergrowth and tunnels of trees and bushes, lost wanderings through woods of beech, rowan, alder 7 oak, gambols on tended plains, being cradled in bowls above a minor metropolis, trudging up rocky paths to gaze over placid harbours as the moon rises.
This year its the on the evening of August 17th. It'll be a night to remember.
Be careful!
There's an incredible walk Id like to take you all on. Includes the grave of Aideen, a 6000 year old Dolmen, scrabbles up steep hills through undergrowth and tunnels of trees and bushes, lost wanderings through woods of beech, rowan, alder & oak, gambols on tended plains, being cradled in bowls above a minor metropolis, trudging up rocky paths to gaze over placid harbours as the moon rises.
This year its the on the evening of August 17th. It'll be a night to remember.