Hi Everyone I have been looking around this site for some time as a guest and really enjoying reading your post's so I thought it was about time I joined ,I would really love to be able to do some of the things you lot get up to . I am walking the local footpaths between Braintree and Witham when I can with one of the dog's, we normally stay out for about three hours wandering around the wood's. It's nothing compared to what you lot get up to I know but its a start and I really enjoy it ,the Essex way runs very close and I am hopeing to walk that later in the year fingers crossed .Happy hiking folk's.