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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Places Explored</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>Wasn&#8217;t expecting to see any snow</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/02/wasnt-expecting-to-see-any-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today came as a lovely sunny if chilly day around Macclesfield so thoughts turned to a little trip out of doors. A certain lethargy meant that I couldn&#8217;t muster up enthusiasm for a wander on foot through the countryside so I went by bus through the hills to Buxton instead. Looking through the bus windows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so to 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/01/and-so-to-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having had a few days to catch up with a few recent issues of TGO, a realisation has popped into my mind: maybe basing myself somewhere on a trip away might allow me to get more from it, especially for those places that take a little longer to get to them. Using Dunoon as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/26/a-look-back-at-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, 2011 will have to be seen as one when work very much got in the way of hill wandering. Even if it did, I did get out on quite a few excursions over its course and some of them took me places where I hadn&#8217;t been before then. Also, there was a sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Gower</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/25/going-to-gower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July turned out to be a month when I was away for four weekends in a row and I decided that the same would apply to the fifth one to make a clean sweep. As it happened, August became a quiet month for hill wandering even if I had a few days off from work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveying castles and coastline on either side of the Menai Strait</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/24/surveying-castles-and-coastline-on-either-side-of-the-menai-strait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third weekend in July brought plenty of bright sunshine. It was enough to get heading to northwest Wales, albeit with a later start that got delayed further thanks to a problem on the West Coast Mainline around its Trent valley section. Nevertheless, my plan to revisit Caernarfon after an absence for quite a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More coastal walking on the Isle of Man</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/22/more-coastal-walking-on-the-isle-of-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/22/more-coastal-walking-on-the-isle-of-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The change of plans that affected the previous weekend gained something of a silver lining: some extra time away from work. The result of that was another weekend on the Isle of Man to follow the one over twelve months before. In fact, it was near enough to the second anniversary of my first ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A note to self</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/20/a-note-to-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year is fast coming to an end as if often never fails to do on me. Posts still await writing for July excursions so I am knocking in some photos so that I can make something of them over the Christmas and New Year break from the everyday, instead of nearly forgetting one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wintry day spent in Shropshire</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/18/a-wintry-day-spent-in-shropshire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/18/a-wintry-day-spent-in-shropshire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a little difficult to take photos in the middle of a wintry shower of sleet so what you find accompanying this trip report are photos from the drier interludes. In fact, eastern Cheshire was beset by such things with Macclesfield and Wilmslow bearing the brunt of the showers as they ran in from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It would be a pity to see them go</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/14/it-would-be-a-pity-to-see-them-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/14/it-would-be-a-pity-to-see-them-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent poke around the SYHA website revealed some sad news: hostel closures. In total, there have been 46 but 5 of them are facing closure. There&#8217;s Canisbay near John O&#8217;Groats in Caithness, Arden near Loch Lomond and three in the Scottish Borders. These are Broadmeadows, Kirk Yetholm and Melrose. The latter losses will leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Abbey to Abbey: St. Boswells to Melrose</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/12/from-abbey-to-abbey-st-boswells-to-melrose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/12/from-abbey-to-abbey-st-boswells-to-melrose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even without having walked from Wooler to Kirk Yetholm the day before, there would have been other reasons why following St. Cuthbert&#8217;s Way on foot all of the way to Melrose wasn&#8217;t an option that I was considering when arising next morning. Having only a day meant that covering the 36 miles was out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Border Crossing: Wooler to Kirk Yetholm</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/11/a-border-crossing-wooler-to-kirk-yetholm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prospect of having some time away from work at the start of July meant that I was playing with the prospect of using the time to head to Oban and reacquaint myself with some of the alluring countryside that surrounds the town. However,Â  a change in circumstances was to rule out that escapade. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintry weather</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/10/wintry-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/10/wintry-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have seen dramatic weather conditions across parts of Britain and strong winds again are forecast for western parts of the U.K. on Monday night. Scotland got the worst of the battering and only now are some places up there returning to normal. It only was today that Blair Atholl got back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another one on the way</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/02/another-one-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a while coming but the basis of the report of a walking weekend split between Northumberland is on its way. Again, it&#8217;s another one that&#8217;s got on the large side so I am thinking of splitting the thing to make it more digestible. Photos need adding too and that tends to eat [...]]]></description>
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