Trails
The Northumberland Coast Path in April
A short national trail from Cresswell to Berwick. A walker covers it in five days at the cool end of spring and finds the castles emptier than the beaches.
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Trails
Field reports from named trails — long-distance throughs, county ridge walks, lost paths to abandoned ranger stations.
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A Three-Day Section of the South Downs Way
A retired headmaster walks from Eastbourne to Lewes in May, covering twenty-one miles of England's most-walked national trail in unfashionable weather.
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Three Days Alone on a 28-Mile Wind Rivers Loop
A solo walker covers a small loop in Wyoming's Wind River Range over three days in early June, while the high lakes are still half ice.
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Mud Season on the Long Trail
Vermont's Green Mountain Club closes the higher trails each April and May. A volunteer steward walks her assigned section on the day it opens.
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The Pembrokeshire Coast Path in February
A walker covers fifty-three miles of the Welsh coast path between Tenby and St Davids in mid-February. The path is hers, mostly.
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The Lost Path to an Abandoned Sierra Ranger Station
A long-disused trail leads through second-growth pine to a 1937 USFS cabin nobody officially maintains anymore. A retired ranger walks it once a year.
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A New Ridgeline Route in the Cairngorms
A small mountaineering club proposes a thirty-one-kilometre traverse across the Cairngorm plateau. Two members walk it in late April to see what it asks.
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A Rest Day in Damascus, Virginia
The town the Appalachian Trail walks straight through becomes, for one Tuesday in May, a quiet study of how thru-hikers actually rest.