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DAVE WALKS LEJOG
Photo diary of a 1,269 mile walk of a lifetime
Land's End to John o'Groats,
15 May – 4 August, 2017
By David Felton
Highlights
Walking blog
dave7057
- Jul 31, 2017
- 7 min
Day 78: Shoreline
Tain to Golspie. 23.3 miles. Miles to date: 1184.8. I wake to the cries of seagulls and gold streaked above the Dornoch firth. It has...
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dave7057
- Jul 30, 2017
- 5 min
Day 77: Countdown
Evanton to Tain. 17.4 miles. Miles to date: 1161.5. With a walk as dull as today's the most you can hope for is a swift and merciful end...
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dave7057
- Jul 27, 2017
- 6 min
Day 74: Fairytale
Drumnadrochit to Inverness. 19.7 miles. Miles to date: 1124.5. There was a moment on today's walk when I was sitting in the sun drinking...
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dave7057
- Jul 26, 2017
- 6 min
Day 73: Nessie
Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit. 14.3 miles. Miles to date: 1104.8. The driver of the No. 919 Citylink bus from Inverness to Fort William...
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dave7057
- Jul 24, 2017
- 6 min
Day 71: Caledonia
Fort William to Laggan Locks. 23 miles. Miles to date: 1069.1. Around 400 million years ago, at the end of the Caledonian orogeny, the...
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dave7057
- Jul 23, 2017
- 6 min
Day 70: Nevis
Kinlochleven to Fort William. 17.6 miles. Miles to date: 1046.1. Saturday night at Kinlochleven's Ice Factor turned into the send-off The...
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dave7057
- Jul 22, 2017
- 7 min
Day 69: Devil
Glencoe Mountain Resort to Kinlochleven. 10.1 miles. Miles to date: 1027.8. I wake at first light. It has not been a good night’s sleep...
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dave7057
- Jul 19, 2017
- 7 min
Day 66: Climb
Ardlui ferry to Tyndrum. 14.4 miles. Miles to date: 999.6. Any day that opens with an after-breakfast ferry ride across the wild waters...
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dave7057
- Jul 18, 2017
- 5 min
Day 65: Loch
Rowardennan to Ardlui jetty. 12.8 miles. Miles to date: 985.2. Consciousness returns. Radio with news stories that I lost touch with...
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dave7057
- Jul 17, 2017
- 7 min
Day 64: Crowds
Killeath to Rowardennan. 19.6 miles. Miles to date: 972.4. It was a day of two narratives, both working in opposition. On the one hand my...
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dave7057
- Jul 14, 2017
- 9 min
Day 61: Bings
West Linton to Winchburgh. 22.9 miles. Miles to date: 903.3. As the miles and days drop away on the trip north, the things you love – and...
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dave7057
- Jul 11, 2017
- 6 min
Day 58: Scones
Innerleithen to Peebles. 10.1 miles. Miles to date: 868.2. A few years back I found myself involved in an aggressive scone eating...
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dave7057
- Jul 10, 2017
- 6 min
Day 57: Uplands
Melrose to Innerleithen. 19.7 miles. Miles to date: 858.1. When I left well-to-do Melrose this morning I was still trying to work out why...
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dave7057
- Jul 9, 2017
- 6 min
Day 56: Borders
Jedburgh to Melrose. 18.8 miles. Miles to date: 838.4. It was hard, on entering the breakfast room of the B&B, not to notice the strange...
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dave7057
- Jul 8, 2017
- 9 min
Day 55: Cuthbert
Kirk Yetholm to Jedburgh. 17.5 miles. Miles to date: 819.6. Today’s walk had something of an Enid Blyton feel. If the Famous Five had...
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dave7057
- Jul 6, 2017
- 5 min
Day 53: Forest
Bellingham to Byrness. 16.2 miles. Miles to date: 776.7. There is something Hansel and Gretel about Byrness (pron. Burnuss), stopping...
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dave7057
- Jun 22, 2017
- 7 min
Day 39: Brontë
Hebden Bridge to Cowling. 17 miles. Miles to date: 591.8. Today I did something naughty. I abandoned The Pennine Way, that has guided me...
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dave7057
- Jun 16, 2017
- 4 min
Day 33: Dove
Thorpe to Miller's Dale. 22 miles. Miles to date: 514.9. Maybe you need days like Wednesday to appreciate the great things about LeJog....
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dave7057
- Jun 9, 2017
- 9 min
Day 26: Hello
Stanton to Long Marston. 18.6 miles. Miles to date: 398. “There must be something in the air,” said the cashier at Blandford Books in...
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dave7057
- Jun 6, 2017
- 4 min
Day 23: Edge
Stroud to Birdlip. 15.8 miles. Miles to date: 358. The rain may have blown out, but if anything the wind was stronger as we climbed from...
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