Hello and welcome to my rudimentary site which houses my musings over the 12.5 Mighty Hikes I completed in 2021.
This was quite an undertaking with the first 9 hikes falling on consecutive Saturdays followed by a three week break in August, and recommencing with the final three on successive weekends.
Each of the hikes has it’s own characteristics and they are all individually challenging for different reasons.
I loved every step of this challenge and I cannot adequately thank the entire Macmillan hiking team, and all of the support staff who do an incredible amount of work to make these hikes happen.
To all my hiking buddies: Sue McPherson, Cat Downie, Betty Biz, Lizzie Sparkes, Steve Crees, Rich Grieve, Sue Shakespeare, Sue Sutherland, Claire Green, Doug Skelton, Peter O’Connor, Baz Spooner, and Diane Blackburn – thank you so much for your support, your encouragement, your kindness, your stories, your great humour, and mainly just for slowing down to walk with and chat to an old fella in a tutu…. It was all very much appreciated.
To the amazingly patient Becky James who very graciously became a hiking widow in 2021 – thank you, love you loads xxxx
And to every single person who has ever started a Mighty Hike – well done. Millions of people don’t bother and that makes you awesome in my eyes. It is a great thing you have done.
And now… My top five hikes this year:
- Giant’s Causeway. Stunning coastline, great welcome, fantastic spirit.
- Jurassic Coast. Beautiful and challenging coastline, dinosaur suit!
- Peak District. Varied terrain and scenery. Long and challenging as a completely solo hike.
- Gower Peninsula. A great hike, challenging terrain and again, a stunning coastline.
- South Coast. My spiritual hiking home. A great route with a sting in the tail.
The links to the individual hikes are below if you want to take a look at my photos.
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