Journeys
Blog
The Slow Ways National Parks Trail update!
Dan Barron, our Community Lead, shares a report on this summer's National Parks Trail Challenge!
At the beginning of the summer, we embarked on an incredible mission: to collectively walk the entirety of the huge...
Blog
Andrew Davies hikes Land’s End to John o’ Groats on Slow Ways
Andrew Davies has always been a traveller, from hitch-hiking around the country and Inter-railing across Europe as a student, to a career of any job that would allow him to live and work somewhere...
Art
Risograph: walking from Falmouth to Coverack and camping by the Helford river
We invited risograph artists to walk Slow Ways routes and make a piece of bespoke artwork about the experience. Madeleine Kemsley chose a magical walk, night swim and wild camp in southwest Cornwall
Journeys
Pushing ourselves to exhaustion and coming through stronger – could your family do this?
Three days, three dogs, marathon distances and a teenager – together we discovered what resilience looks like
This story is the next in our Trails series. We invited people to apply to assemble a group of friends...
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A two-day hike through Shropshire and Powys
Two of the most sparsely populated and rural counties, but not far from the busy Midlands. The crew walk through a bright yellow landscape full of creatures
Article
I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob
Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?
Blog
One year ago my best friend died. Why I’m setting out today to walk with my grief
From Brighton to Bradford via London and Leeds, linking up the the four places my friend Ro lived, and holding sessions for bereaved friends along the way
Journeys
“Wild like the end of the world, or the start of something”
One of us is going through a bad situation. After we’d raked through the hows and whens and whys, I asked what she was going to do now. “I want to walk. I just want to walk myself through it.”