This is the RSS feed for the Online Fellwalking Club. http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:49:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/images/M_images/ofc_logo_177x173.jpg http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk This is the RSS feed for the Online Fellwalking Club. http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/advice/routes/walking-cevennes-by-rail.html Scott Anderson of Enlightened Traveller wrote to me recently asking for his url to be placed on the OFC's links page. As I usually do, I asked if... Advice - Routes Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:12:15 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/orrest-head-80---saturday-5th-june.html I was reading The Wainwright Memorial Walk a while since and it dawned on me that 2010 would be the 80th anniversary of AW's ascent of Orrest Head.... Community - Community News Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:18:52 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/ofc-meet---2010.html Robbie via the OFC Yahoo! message board has proposed that during 2010 a gathering be arranged somewhere in Lakeland. His initial proposal is for a camp during August... Community - Community News Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/peter-burgess/two-yokes---lucky.html A New Year's Day ascent of Ill Bell started with a walk up valley past Kentmere Reservoir. The ascent, in worsening winter conditions, included the ascent of the... Community - Peter Burgess Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/peter-burgess/epping-forest-in-snow.html This article is certainly not fellwalking, but after overnight snow, London awoke to some snow on 18th December 2009. After a pre-Christmas errand in Leyton, a drive with... Community - Peter Burgess Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:58:57 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/advice/books/magazines/wainwright---his-life-from-milltown-to-mountain.html COMPETITION: Since the centenary of Alfred Wainwright's birth in 2007, there has been a massive resurgence in interest in the man himself. With the revival of the Pictorial... Advice - Books/Magazines Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:44:43 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/great-gable-remembrance-weekend---2009.html The OFC ascent of Great Gable for the 2009 service of Remembrance performed by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. This year the weather held and the party... Community - Community News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:21:14 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/the-ofc-acknowledges-the-hileys.html Roger and Ann Hiley were honoured on 8th November by the Online Fellwalking Club for all their Lakeland related activities and positive contributions in their 9 years with the... Community - Community News Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/peter-burgess/fleetwith-pike-and-pinnacle-ridge---2-days-in-lakeland.html On a recent visit to Cumbria I had the fine company of Mark Richards, guidebook author and illustrator. With about 48 hours in which to travel north to... Community - Peter Burgess Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:31:40 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/ofc-peak-district-walk---burbage-edge.html A fantastic 12 mile walk was undertaken by the OFC around the Goyt Valley taking in Burbage Edge and Shining Tor on Saturday October 10th. Refreshments were taken afterwards... Community - Community News Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:49:12 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/advice/faqs/the-major-waters-of-the-lake-district.html When Peter Burgess asked for suggestions for a future OFC survey I thought of the major waters of the Lake District, the limit of twelve for survey purposes would... Advice - FAQs Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/site/news/the-lost-sheep-8---available-now.html The long and anticipated wait for the launch of the next issue of The Lost Sheep is now here. Issue 8 is a veritable feast of articles which again... Site - News Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:50:31 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/gaping-gill-and-ingleborough-from-clapham.html On a bright and almost sunny start to the day, 11 explorers and 2 dogs met in Clapham village for the now annual event to Gaping Gill. The forecast... Community - Community News Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:44:32 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/community-news/black-crag-and-holme-fell.html The OFC were out in force again for a very sociable walk, starting at Tom Gill Falls and visiting Tarn Hows, Black Crag, Hodge Close, Holme Fell and... Community - Community News Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:07:26 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/advice/other/wild-swimming.html From what I have perceived within the fellwalking fraternity, as well as the pastime of walking there is also another hidden agenda within this seeming conservative group. Whether... Advice - Other Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:52:54 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/articles/scafell-pike.html On Saturday 27th June 2009, Beth Howard successfully completed her ascent to the summit of Scafell Pike. The day was a fantastic one with Beth accompanied by her... Community - Articles Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:22:57 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/advice/books/magazines/an-atlas-of-the-english-lakes.html With the advent of a recent poll examining people's favourite lakes proposed by David Dimmock, I thought it a good prompt to review an excellent book portraying charts of... Advice - Books/Magazines Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:06:25 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/articles/the-lakes-of-the-english-lake-district.html Most people agree (wrote Paul Rose in 2004) that there are sixteen lakes in the Lake District although this can be misinterpreted as there is only one named lake... Community - Articles Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:09 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/articles/symonds-yat-and-the-wye-valley.html This year Karen and I visited the Wye Valley for an early summer holiday. We stayed in chalet-type accommodation in Symonds Yat West, which is so-named because... Community - Articles Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:54:26 +0100 http://www.fellwalkingclub.co.uk/community/articles/the-missing-link-from-david-pitt.html David Pitt offered an article for inclusion in the Lost Sheep and which, as a result of an ongoing programme to publish this material on the website, now appears... Community - Articles Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:35:59 +0100