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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Staffordshire</title>
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	<description>Thanks for dropping by. What is now my hillwalking blog started out as a place to put hillwalking trip reports and photo gallery update news. It has since blossomed from those beginnings to take on a life of its own, with the aforementioned being complemented by related topics such as plans for future outings, walking books, outdoors gear, weather, travel and the wonder of nature. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>A freezing February</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This day last week, a weather front was making its way down Britain throwing out good coverings of snow as it did so. Macclesfield didn&#8217;t escape either though it sounds as if other places got more; there were several inches left on cars in Harlow in Essex last Saturday night. Transport got disrupted too and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stiffness</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/17/stiffness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weatherwise, 2012 started like a lion in some parts with Scotland getting a particular battering. Before that the second day of the year saw me crossing hills to pop over to Buxton. That act planted in my mind the prospect of exploring more of Macclesfield&#8217;s hills this year. However, the following weekend was a quiet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armchair Ambling</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/27/armchair-ambling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the prospect of a day of sunshine should have been enough to get me wandering through the countryside, that hasn&#8217;t come to pass. As it happens, the skies over Macclesfield are laden with cloud with the sun only getting out from time to time. That means the landscape gets spotlit instead of the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: a year of reconnaissance and rediscovery</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/26/2009-a-year-of-reconnaissance-and-rediscovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Christmas 2009, I tried making a start on this round-up but the attempt came to a full stop. One cause was a memory block and a certain loss of chronology in the trip report postings. Along with this, end of year fatigue and lack of inspiration had their parts to play too. The latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good covering</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/12/19/a-good-covering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was out earlier this evening on an A to B trip on my bike when a shower of sleet came upon me, not a problem with my being appropriately attired. Even if I got snow, the lugs on my mountain bike&#39;s tyres would have coped; yes, they are staying inflated so far. Speaking of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A journey from peak to plain</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/08/05/a-journey-from-peak-to-plain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mixture that has been the weather during the last few weeks may or may not have made the boffins in the Met Office look a little foolish, to say the least. More seriously, it is having an adverse impact on many Irish dairy farmers following what was for them a less than ideal winter; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of autumn</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/07/26/signs-of-autumn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July has been a quiet month for me on the hill wandering front. Between having other things that need to done and not being enticed by the current mix of damper weather, getting out of doors has tended to be a largely bicycle-borne affair. Thoughts of enduring endless power soakings have helped to turn my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative option that didn&#8217;t disappoint</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/06/15/an-alternative-option-that-didnt-disappoint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose that it might be easier if I lived in Greater Manchester but early Sunday morning getaways from Macclesfield are an impossibility if you are dependent on public transport. Buses don&#8217;t move until around 09:00 and train companies must regard Maxonians as right layabouts given that nothing runs north until at least 10:30 (saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taken by surprise again?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/05/28/taken-by-surprise-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 07:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time last year, I was feeling a tad sore after a weekend in Scotland where I was surprised by some of the best weather that I had seen there in a while. It was as if I was taken by surprise and reluctantly left because I was of the opinion, rightly or wrongly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An involved way to cross a county boundary</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/04/08/an-involved-way-to-cross-a-county-boundary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/04/08/an-involved-way-to-cross-a-county-boundary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I get to plotting an outdoors outing, I almost invariably turn to maps for ideas. That&#8217;s not to say that guidebooks don&#8217;t get perused as well but there&#8217;s something very immediate about casting one&#8217;s eye over a map. Scotland&#8217;s enlightened access legislation means that any track can be fair game but more care is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at 2008 II: Until Midsummer</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/01/16/a-look-back-at-2008-ii-until-midsummer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/01/16/a-look-back-at-2008-ii-until-midsummer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While 2009 has yet to see its first proper hill outing of the year for me, I have to say that anyone who doesn&#8217;t make the most of the first half of any year is missing out on something special. It is nice to think that everything is on the up and your next outing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing home some Staffordshire mud</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/02/07/bringing-home-some-staffordshire-mud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how an idea can come to be planted in your head. There was a time when I used the prospect of a dull day to keep me home from the outdoors so as get other important things done. On the other hand, that might have gone too far because I then might have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some trips to report</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/02/05/some-trips-to-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a &#34;life event&#34; (as Weird Darren calls them), my attention went away from this blog for a while. Nevertheless, I still got out to do some walking and, now that&#160;I&#8217;m back, I have two trips to share with you. The most recent of these was a snowy tramp in Northumberland last Saturday and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day out among Staffordshire&#8217;s moorlands</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/01/11/a-day-out-among-staffordshires-moorlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/01/11/a-day-out-among-staffordshires-moorlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, Staffordshire has never featured highly in my list of outdoor destinations. Now that I think about it, it does seem strange for two reasons: it&#8217;s not as if is far away from me and neither is the area bereft of quality hill country. Accessibility from Macclesfield by public transport might have something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long distance route on my doorstep: Gritstone Trail</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2007/08/30/a-long-distance-route-on-my-doorstep-gritstone-trail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2007/08/30/a-long-distance-route-on-my-doorstep-gritstone-trail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if to prove that long distance trails can be found anywhere, there is one in east Cheshire that passes not far from where I live. This is the 35 mile (56 km) Gritstone Trail and it starts at Disley before following the western fringes of the Peak District all of the way to Kidsgrove [...]]]></description>
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