Hiking and walking in South Yorkshire and beyond

Featherbed Moss  RFM Blue Line Walking with my brother, Peter. 30/08/24 This walk was inspired by our epic walk around the top of Kinder Scout when we saw a group of orange clad figures walking up the valley below us. I felt it would be really good to see Kinder from below. We met at Snake Pass Summit a much beloved starting place for many walkers in the area. As usual we were both 20 minutes early at 7.40 and there were already 2 cars p arked.  The early morning mist shrouding Shelf Moor over towards Bleaklow was a welccome atmospheric back drop to the start of the walk. The OS app gave us a little problem as we could not find the saved offline map of the walk. Solved by going to the saved map and using that to follow the walk. Oddly both our phones had the same issue. Maybe it was an OS issue. As Peter said, note to self, bring the paper map in the car just in case of repeat. Anyway crisis over and on with the walk. We quickly reached the first junction leaving the Pennine W...

 Lound RFM Blue Line 19/08/24 This walk predominantly on hard surfaces was a good panning in walk for my new shoes which I intend to wear hiking the hard surfaces of Fuerterventura. It also projects my current network of walks towards Lincoln which is one of the cities I want to connect my web to.  The walk starts at the parking spot on the High Street in Blyth. The plan is to go to Scrooby Top, Ranskill, Lound and back via Torworth. Exiting Blyth the road goes under the A1 and passes a pleasant enough duck pond on the left. The lay of the land is pretty flat and this is the hilly part of the walk. The path off Blyth Road passes a curious bungalow in the woods with a hexagonal roof. I guess it is either a gatehouse or a toll house, who knows. The path runs alongside a Roman Earthwork on the OS map. The path ran through Breck's Wood and alongside the Golf Course before reaching the crossroads at Green Lane. There wasn't really anything to see of Roman interest but it always fun...