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    Discussing the design of Pockets:

    I lost my camera because the pockets were the wrong way round. Anyone else have this problem? http://peakwalking.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/hathersage-booths-eyam-stoney-middleton.html
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    Putting on a rucksack, right handed or left handed?

    I'm right-handed and always put my rucksack on by starting with looping my right arm through the right shoulder strap. Yesterday my neck and right shoulder were a bit stiff and so I tried putting it on 'left-handed' i.e. looping my left shoulder through the left shoulder strap first. It felt...
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    Molehills In A Straight Line

    I regularly go walking in the Peak District and on a couple of recent walks I noticed something unusual; molehills in a field in a straight line along the route of a footpath, and not anywhere else. I'm wondering what this might be; could it be that worms are attracted to the ground because of...
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    Walks and Unusual Place Names

    When I go walking in the Peak District part of the reason for me visiting a location might well be its unusual name. I'm wondering if anyone else takes this into account. In the Peak District some unusual names are 'Surprise View' 'Toad's Mouth' and High Low. There are many more.
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    Navigation for walkers course

    I've just completed this weekend residential course at Northern College, near Barnsley. Here's my assessment of the course: http://peakwalking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/navigation-for-walkers-course-at.html
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    I can't look at my map and listen to the cricket at the same

    My latest walk: http://peakwalking.blogspot.com I'm not lost...just in the wrong place. Its there, but you can't see it.
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    Miller's Dale to Bakewell.

    Today's walk: http://peakwalking.blogspot.com No trains The bus delayed because of problems with a new ticket machine...then it breaks down at Rotherham. A lovely walk though.
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    Derbyshire's own 'seaside resort'.

    Today's walk - Matlock Bath http://peakwalking.blogspot.com It was quiet today, but it can get very busy at times. Taking things easy today - an important meeting tomorrow.
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    Six Dales

    Maybe there ought to be a term for bagging Dales..... A lovely day in the Peak District today. The overnight frost makes a colour photo look like it's black and white; but it allows me to walk across frozen boggy ground easily. My latest walk: http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    Quicksand and Derbyshire's own miniature Grand Canyon.

    On the latest OS map the footpaths aRE NO LONGER SHOWN.
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    Quicksand and Derbyshire's own miniature Grand Canyon.

    My latest walk; http://peakwalking.blogspot.com Can anyone suggest any other similar locations in the area?
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    If ever a place has an appropriate name...

    I'm glad Xmas and New Year is over; it's not my favourite time of the year....things are back to normal though now. Here's a link to today's walk; http://peakwalking.blogspot.com A lovely day spent walking near Castleton in the Hope Valley. An abandoned road, a nervous bus driver...and a...
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    Better pics with my new camera...and an unusual flavour.

    My latest walk: experimentation, too many layers and perfect timing at Bakewell. http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    An Expensive Day!

    My latest walk; I break a piece of equipment; there's plenty of virgin snow...but I don't need my new hiking crampons. http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    My first snow....I had planned to go further.

    My latest walk: Where's the ****ing footbridge? It wasn't marked on the map: and so near, yet so far. http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    Wardrobe failure and a very easy decision to make.

    My latest walk, Shatton, Abney Moor and Hathersage. http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    A dog that thinks it's a horse. Rivelin to Endcliffe Park.

    My latest walk: http://peakwalking.blogspot.com The countryside of the Peak District reaches almost all the way to Sheffield city centre.
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    Against the clock this time.

    My latest walk: Miller's Dale, Wheston and Bradwell. http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    Sunny on Top

    My latest walk...struggling with the character map on my computer: can you guess where I've been? http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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    I'm unhinged, a bilingual notice...and a painful bruise.

    My latest walk: http://peakwalking.blogspot.com
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