'My' path!
Well, that was interesting! We set out to walk the paths in my km square (see here for details of the Big Pathwatch).
I thought I knew the local paths, but I now know that I did not - not all of them anyway. Gordon had an idea about most of them (and the hazards!) as he does a lot of running, but I now realise that I only use some of the paths. I also know why I don't use the others!!
Highs
* Excellent paths, stiles and gates through Dufton Ghyll (Woodland Trust).
(Those Blippers who came on the Blipmeet earlier in the year will
remember walking some of this.)
* A lovely sunken path leading out of the woods (my blip)
Lows
* Unsafe stile (very narrow with loose stones on both sides)
* A quite ridiculous, almost impassable stile (see extra)
* An overgrown and unsafe (because of loose stones) path on the edge of
a large field of barley. For much of this bit, we ended up walked along a
path that had been made right through the barley
And we've only covered part of the square! Interesting though and worth doing.
These are all marked public footpaths. No wonder a need was seen for this sort of campaign. Quite what happens after, I don't know.
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