What a report covers, how a route gets graded, and what to expect when you join a weekend walk. Straight answers, no promises we cannot keep.
Every route breakdown starts with a walk someone in the club has actually done, or a note sent in by another walker. We do not lift descriptions from elsewhere and we do not use stock libraries for the photographs.
Distance, elevation gain, water points, wind exposure on open sections and the months that suit the traverse. It also states where a path is overgrown, where markers have faded and where a shortcut saves an hour.
Grades run from easy through moderate and hard to severe, and they reflect the ground underfoot, the length of the day and how exposed the route becomes in poor weather. A short coastal path with a long rocky descent can grade harder than a longer, gentler traverse.
Water for the full day, a windproof shell, a warm layer and footwear with grip for wet rock. Coastal weather shifts faster than the forecast, so a dry spare layer is worth the weight even on a short walk.
Weekend group walks go up with a meeting point and a difficulty grade so you can judge whether the route suits you before committing. If conditions turn, the walk is moved or called off rather than pushed through.
Yes. Notes on distance, elevation, water and marker conditions are welcome, and they help the next walker start with better information. Send them through the contact page, and see our terms for how submissions are handled.
Nothing on these pages is written from a desk. Every route breakdown comes from a walk the club has done on foot, or from a route note another walker sent in after their own traverse. If we have not walked it and nobody has sent notes, it does not get published.
A report starts with someone actually walking the line. We note distance and elevation as we go, mark where water appears, and record how the wind behaves on the exposed sections rather than guessing from a forecast.
Walkers send in their own observations, and those notes are checked against what the club found on the same path. Where the two disagree, both versions stay visible so you can see the difference instead of a tidy single answer.
Overgrown stretches, faded markers, a shortcut that saves an hour: these are things you can see and check. We write them down plainly, with the month they were recorded, because a path that was clear in autumn may not be in spring.
Group walks go up with a meeting point, a difficulty grade and the ground the route is likely to throw at you. Grades run from easy through moderate and hard to severe, and they describe the walking rather than the fitness of the group. If a path has changed since the last posting, the listing is updated before the walk, not after.
A reference page is only useful if you can trace where the information came from. Every route breakdown here starts with a walk the club has actually done, or with notes sent in by another walker who was on the ground. Nothing is copied from a trail database, and no photograph is pulled from a stock library.
That means the reports carry the limits of a real walk: a route logged in a wet month reads differently from the same route in a dry one, and we say so rather than smoothing it out.
Read how the club works on foot on the mission page, or see the full set of route and gear write-ups.
A report goes up after someone has covered the ground, not after reading about it. Distance, elevation and the shape of the day come from the walk itself.
No stars, no scores. You get water points, wind exposure on the open sections, and the months that suit the traverse, so you can judge it against your own pace.
Where a path has grown over, where markers have faded, where an informal shortcut saves an hour: all of it is written down, including the parts that make a route slower than expected.
Footwear, pack and layering notes come from what members carried on damp coastal days, including the choices that turned out badly.
Submitted route notes are checked against the club's own walks before they shape a report. If the two disagree, the difference is noted instead of quietly dropped. Weekend group walks are posted with meeting points and difficulty grades, so you can compare your own read of a route with someone else's.
We use a small amount of local storage to remember how you respond to this notice. Nothing is shared with third parties, and no tracking runs before you decide. You can read how we handle data in our privacy policy.