Sally in Norfolk

Day 1…. Milngavie to Drymen….. 12 miles.

Day 2…. Drymen to Rowadennan…. 15 miles

Day 3….Rowardennan to Inverarnan…. 14 miles

Day 4….Inverarnan to Bridge of Orchy ….19 miles

Day 5….Bridge of Orchy to Kinlocleven ….21 miles

Day 6…Kinlocleven to Fort William….. 14 miles

Day 7 and 8 in Fort william  where the plan is to do Ben Nevis.

All accommodation now booked so just need some long training walks and trips to the gym to make sure I am fit and ready.

Although I have lived in Scotland and my eldest son was born in Inverness I have never walked in Scotland.

Walking in Scotland has been a dream of mine for many many years so you can imagine how excited I am about this trip

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Geoff and I booked our Train tickets yesterday for Fort William.

We Travel up to Glasgow on Sat 26th April, then will walk the West highland way to Fort William.

Hope to bag Ben Nevis  on the way then travel home on the 5th may.

So the plan so far is…..

Sun 27th April walk to Drymen 12 miles

Mon 28th April walk to Rowardennan 15 miles

Tues 29th April walk to Inverarnan 14 miles

Wed 30th April walk to Bridge of Orchy 19 miles

Thurs 1st may walk to Kingshouse 12 miles

Friday 2nd May walk to Kinloclleven 9 miles

Sat 3rd May  walk to Nevis Bridge 14 miles

Sun 4th May bag Ben Nevis  then stay in fort William ready for train home Monday morning.

I am sure these plans will change once I start trying to book the accommodation, which I expect is not going to be an easy task !

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Only a few days now till Geoff and I go off to Corsica, where we hope to walk down the spine of Corsica , a walk known as the GR20.

We are walking it north to south,doing the hardest days walking in the first half.

We fly out of Stansted to Nice very early on Saturday morning,Going to spend the day in Nice before catching the high speed ferry over to Calvi at 17.45. Its a three hour trip so should get there around 20.45.

We are booked into the hotel Monte Grosso in Calenzana for the Saturday night, a good nights sleep before starting the walk on the sunday.

We have also booked into the hotel Le Chalet,in Haut Asco on the 19th, our third walking day and the night before the Cirque de la solitude.The day that most walkers dread !!!

The idea is to keep my ruc-sac as light as possible…no luxuries on this trip.

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Not sure I should be reading all of this but then I did ask for the information in the first place.

This is what campers 185 has to say about his trip and more here.

Glad to say I will be traveling much lighter than he was.

He was carrying 28kg, my ruc-sac will weigh no more than 12kg

we are not taking any cooking stuff, intending to eat at the refuges, and just carry a few days spare food for emergency’s.

We cannot make our minds up about taking the tent , after reading this Geoff will probably decide not to take it.

Must say that bridge looks well scary…..

16 days and counting….

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Had two e-mails today, regarding my trip to Corsica.

One from Marek who has the Corsica a for hikers web site.

The other from Judy Armstrong , nice to think she had time to mail me while on her alpine challenge trip

Nice to know people are thinking about me too 

Sad to hear that 3 people have been killed in Corsica, two on the mountains the third by the sea.

So glad that we are not going for another 18 days, as at one point we did think about going at the beginning of June.

Lets hope the weather has improved by the 15th of June.

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Got my train ticket , just got to pack, then tomorrow Geoff and I are off to Les Gets again for another training week-end.

Will be the last chance we get to train in the mountains before our Corsica trip.

Not sure what Geoff has in store for me this time but I will find out soon enough.

With my new Air force one socks foot cream and refreshing foot balm all from backpacking light. My feet have never felt better .

So here’s to a good three days walking in the mountains, with lots of photo’s to look forward too…….

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Two years ago this month I met up with a small group of people I had made contact with through the RA forum.

We met at Graffham water for our very first walk, since then we have been meeting up every two or three months.

We always post our walk on the RA forum and have had many people join us for the occasional walk.

Infact this is how I met Geoff, Caroline and Ellee they came to a walk we were doing from Castle Acre.

Little did I know then how much my life was about to change

This Sunday we shall be meeting at Fulbourn to celebrate our anniversary with a nice 14 mile walk.

If anyone would like to join us your more than welcome too.

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I thought I would spend Easter with my boys but they did not want me.

Luckily for me someone else does want me.

Even Better we are off to Wales to Join Philip at his cottage and do some walking….

Heel is mending nice, as you can see.

I have new Boots to try out and a new ruc-sac too

So another great week-end in store for me.

Watch this space for blogs on walks , how my heel copes and what I think to my new boots

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Well it looks like I may finally get to see some Hills at the week-end, so please pray for good weather.

Going to Rockingham in Northamptonshire first, to do a 17 mile walk with friends then we are off to Hope in Derbyshire.

Planned walk is up Win Hill along Kinder and then either down Jacobs ladder or along Mam Tor / Lose Hill down to Hope

Route distance 29.6km , total ascent 1089 m, total decent 1088m so will be just a bit different to my usually flat Norfolk walking.

This will be my first real walk in training for going to Corsica in June to do the GR20, going to French Alps in April and May for long week-ends for training too………. I am beginning to get very very excited.

How will I ever sleep between now and the week-end 

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The Lycian way is a long distance walk in Turkey. While I was in Cambridge Geoff and I met up with Clare and Dave who did the walk In April and May 2006. We are trying to decide if it would be a good training walk for the GR20. They certainly had lots of interesting information and their enthusiasm for the walk was very catching .our plan would be to fly to Antalya airport, then use the bus and just walk a few sections  but at the moment we are not 100% sure this will be our training walk

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