Walking
Art
“To return to a place” is decolonising work in practice
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent artistic 'walkshop' in Ecclesall Wood helped forge an embodied connection with nature at a mycorrhizal level resulting in a sensory woodland exhibition
Trails
“Blisters the size of cats”: a zine on walking from Leeds to Hull
A group of friends walk from Leeds to Hull and capture their experiences through the co-creation of a zine, a small imaginative D.I.Y publication
Story
“Out of the dust and the clothes and the sorting”: the “second family” of a North Wales charity shop walk together
Award-winning writer Sawsan joins Scope volunteers on a walk from Colwyn Bay, where natural beauty and social deprivation coexist awkwardly
Tales from a Slow Way
Bob Marley, Kate Moss and Stormzy: Croydon artist draws portraits of people connected by a Slow Way
Artist and English teacher Jonny Kemp explores the route to Croydon from Crystal Palace, called Crocry, drawing famous people who worked or lived nearby
Blog
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
Trails
Our Carlisle to Newcastle walk immortalised in silver talisman rings
What to expect when blazing a new coast-to-coast trail across the North (bog soup!), and how we told the tale in film and silver
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?
Long read
Walking artist ‘living with a bowl of lava in my brain’ learns to walk again at 34
The story that Slow Ways storyteller Genevieve Rudd never imagined she'd be writing for us