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Oct 12 2024
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Crossing England

Friday 11th October 2024, 1.20pm (day 4,796)

Walkers above Huddersfield, 11/10/24

The Pennines are, definitely, the vertebrae of Britain (supporting the large, shaggy head that is Scotland). And today I, definitely, walked from one side of them to the other, starting a hike in Greenfield on the west and ending it in Marsden to the east: with the town seen in the background here being Huddersfield. Today, therefore, I definitely crossed England, in watershed terms anyway. The two guys seen here may or may not have done the same.

Can I note, though, that a lot of England’s spine is comprised of peaty, boggy shit. Get it cleaned up, England!

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Feb 12 2024
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Hurst Road

Sunday 11th February 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,553)

Hurst Road, 11/2/24

The first shot taken in Hebden Bridge since 25th January. It’s nice to travel, but it is also nice to come home. Even if the weather while I was away was wintrier here than in Canada — this much is obvious.

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Jan 08 2024
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The Brecon Beacons (not climbed yet)

Sunday 7th January 2024, 9.50am (day 4,518)

Brecon Beacons

The County Tops project exists so I can find excuses to get about the country, and this won’t be my last trip to South Wales by any means. These lumps of rock and grass will get me back again: these slopes eventually culminate in Pen y Fan (its summit obscured by mist in this shot), highest of the Brecon Beacons and the highest point anywhere in the country south of Snowdonia. I was just driving past today, though — it can wait.

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Oct 30 2023
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On the Long Causeway

Sunday 29th October 2023, 1.35pm (day 4,448)

Long Causeway wind farm, 29/10/23

This statement will seem disagreeable to some but I actually quite like wind farms. The ones above the upper Calder Valley, as seen here from the Long Causeway road that links Hebden Bridge and Burnley across the moors, are not unattractive.

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Mar 20 2023
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Stiperden Bar House

Sunday 19th March 2023, 9.35am (day 4,224)

Stiperden Bar House,

I drive past this house fairly often as it lies on most routes northwards from home. It’s certainly lived in on a permanent basis. I have always admired its glorious isolation, and what it must take to survive in reasonable condition 1,280 feet/380m up in the air in the middle of a peat moor. But would I want to live there myself? Not really. (If you want to check out its position on the Ordnance Survey map it lies at about grid reference SD910286.)

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May 18 2020
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Up on t’ moor

Monday 18th May 2020, 12.40pm (day 3,189)

Monochrome moor, 18/5/20

I’m still trying to keep the step count up, but the weather turned rather grim. Being up on the moors above the town in squally drizzle made the exercise less pleasant than it might have been. But it kept me moving.

The moor here is a riot of cottongrass. I feel it comes out at the wrong time of year — it looks like it should be a December plant, a proxy for snow.

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