Badges of honour!

2 min read

#MINICHALLENGES

Every new edition we invite you to spice up your miles by doing something seasonal, silly or highly specific. The prize? For 20 lucky entrants a moneycan’t- buy Golden Badge. New challenges on the right. Join in!

S3@#WALK1000MILES UPDATE

SEEN YOU’VE WON?

Email walk1000miles@countrywalking.co.uk with your address and a pic of you holding this edition to claim your precious!

#minichallenge26

Make yourself very big or small

#minichallenge28

Put something in a hole in a tree

Katrina Scott painted and wrote notes and distributed them around Scarborough. ‘I hope they help whoever finds them, to smile a little.’

Mandy Cooke found a hole in a tree and put herself in it. ‘Some of these challenges are challenging for solo walkers!’

Christine Abbott passing the love around on an early dog walk.

Michael Hardman went with fine art: ‘Walk1000miles cap in hole in tree’.

#minichallenge27

Start a collection

Selina Price is saving £1 a mile and will spend it all on best friend Prince’s favourite things. ‘He comes from Romania and he had an awful start to his life. He deserves to be spoiled rotten and that’s what we are going to do.’

Shelley Dunkerley: ‘For the past five years Dunk and I have walked our 1000 mile challenge we have stashed a minimum of £1 a mile in our money tins… but often stash the odd tenner or twenty too, and donate it to charity at the end.’ Amazing Shelley!

Cliff Dark has booked the trip of a lifetime with two weeks in Costa Rica and is putting 50p per mile walked into an adapted pineapple money box to help pay for all the walking excursions they plan to book. ‘Based on my average walking per week that should be about £750!’

Simone Joseph has a money box which can only be opened with a tin opener. ‘I pop in a pound for each mile I walk and will open on New Year’s Eve. I hope to spend the money on walking adventures in Roxy the motorhome!’

#minichallenge29

Explore somewhere abandoned

Jeff Sparkes visited the Mulberry Harbour on Gold Beach in Arromanches. ‘Decommissioned after D-Day, being stood inside a piece while looking out towards the beach and seeing a re-enactment, I did get quite emotional.’

Samantha Hambling explored disused lead mines at Snailbeach in Shropshire. ‘Stiperstones was famed for mining but where there used to be slag heaps there are now “wildflower heaps” and a number of quite ancient holly trees. Pleasing to see that we can reverse eyesores like mines and replace them with beautiful wildlife.’

Roger Moore pondered this old footbridge in the Elan Valley.

This article is from...

Country Walking Magazine

20 July 2023

Yorkshire Life

How posh is your pooch?

From gourmet dining to puppy playdates, it seems a dog’s life is all about the good times here in Yorkshire. Beth Windsor and Emma Chesworth join the pet set to find out more

BBC Wildlife Magazine

On thehunt

S ince 2009, Amy Dickman has come across some horrific sights on the edge of Ruaha National Park in Central Tanzania where she studies, and tries to resolve, conflict between people and predators. The

Coast Magazine

10 things to do in june

SU CARROLL rounds up the very best activities to do and things to see close to the coastline this month

The Great Outdoors

Wild walks

Our walks this month 1 Muckle Roe Shetland ...

Trail

Through the magic valley

Isolated CWM PENNANT has been called ‘the most beautiful valley in Wales’. We tackle its 12-mile length in search of its secrets: ruined quarries, a fabled bothy, a giant waterwheel hidden in the hills and atmospheric wild camp spots, all in the shadow of the dramatic Nantlle Ridge.

Bird Watching

Uk bird sightings march

SOUTH WEST Highlights In association with A couple ...