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The Week After: How to Recover From a Challenge Walk
Your recovery starts the moment you stop walking, not the next morning.
Get the first hour right and the rest of the week looks after itself. Here is what to do after 13 miles, after 23, and after 37.
Bluetongue in Northumberland: What Walkers Need to Know
Bluetongue does not affect people and it does not close footpaths. But it is a worrying time for Northumberland's livestock farmers, and there are a few simple things every walker can do to help.
Simonside Walking Safety: What Mountain Rescue's Summer Callouts Teach Us
Simonside is one of the friendliest hills in Northumberland.
It is 429 metres, two miles south of Rothbury, with a flagstone path across the moor and a car park at the bottom. Thousands of people walk it every year without incident.
Which is exactly why the callout reports are worth reading.
Catch the Ospreys Before They Fly: An August Family Walk at Kielder
Kielder's young ospreys have just taken to the air - and within weeks they'll be gone, off to West Africa for the winter. Here's how to catch England's rarest summer wildlife spectacle on an easy family walk at Kielder Water, before they fly.
Walk to Holy Island: A Local Guide to Crossing the Sands
The walk to Holy Island across the sands is one of the finest crossings in the country - three miles of open sand and a line of poles heading out towards Lindisfarne. Here's how to get the tides right, find the route, and avoid the muddy patch that catches nearly everybody out.
Walking across the Pilgrims Causeway onto Holy Island of Linstfarne is one of the best walking experiences you can ever imagine. The sense of isolation is very different than countryside walks.
But as The Holy Islands Island of Lindifarne must work around the safe crossing times to the Holy Island. Please do not attempt to cross the causeway at any other time as the tide comes in very rapidly and is very dangerous.