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England Coast Path: ‘champing’ at Cooling

The Iwade to Grain section of the England Coast Path has recently been officially signed off. I walked it last summer when I completed a circuit of the Isle of Grain, enjoying an unusual overnighter on the way.

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Trail talk: Navigation resources for hiking in Gran Canaria

Three Points of the Compass takes a glance at some of the best maps, guidebooks and online resources there are for those hiking on Gran Canaria

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Trail talk: Camino de Santiago de Gran Canaria- the finish

Three Points of the Compass travelled to the Canary Islands to walk a little known Camino. The first day had not gone well, how would it end?

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Trail talk: Camino de Santiago de Gran Canaria- day one

Three Points of the Compass travels to the Canary Islands to walk a little known Camino: "the way of St. James among volcanoes"

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Trail talk: Arctic Circle Trail: Eqalugaarniarfik to Sisimiut

Three Points of the Compass continues his trek through West Greenland on the Arctic Circle Trail, heading to the coast

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Trail talk: Arctic Circle Trail- hunter cairns

Many of the paths crossing the West Greenland tundra have cairns to guide the way. These have often been adorned by the skulls and antlers of reindeer.

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Trail talk: Arctic Circle Trail: Kangerlussuaq to Eqalugaarniarfik

Three Points of the Compass hiked the Arctic Circle Trail during the brief Greenland summer. The first four days took me into the mountains and arctic tundra, to the tidal head of the Maligiaq fjord.

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Trail talk: LDWA National Trails Register

Three Points of the Compass has a glance at the National Trails Register maintained by the Long Distance Walkers Association, giving himself a pat on the back at the same time.

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Trail talk: finally opening my mail

Three Points of the Compass finally gets round to opening a package received in the post over five years ago

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- my gear

Three Points of the Compass takes a glance at the gear he carried on a recent walk across northern England on the Coast to Coast Path

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Moors

Three Points of the Compass enters the final part of a walk across northern England. The Coast to Coast climbs back up into the hills of the North York Moors, heading to Robin Hood's Bay.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Vale of Mowbray, the ‘flat bit’

Three Points of the Compass heads toward the least demanding part of the trail- a couple of day's hike across low lying agricultural farmland, prior to a final National Park on this two-hundred mile walk across northern England.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Dales

Three Points of the Compass continues his Coast to Coast. Leaving the Lake District behind to enter the Yorkshire Dales, the second of three National Parks on this two-hundred mile walk across northern England.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Lakes

Three Points of the Compass sets off on the Coast to Coast Path- backpacking across northern England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, taking in three National Parks en-route.

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Trail talk: Ordnance Survey’s original Outdoor Leisure 33 and 34 maps

These now hard to find sheets were specially designed strip maps for Wainwright's famous Coast to Coast Walk.

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Trail talk: Skye Trail- the Storr to Broadford

After a tough day on the Trotternish Ridge, Three Points of the Compass continues his hike on the Isle of Skye. Missing one of the most magical of natural phenomenon in the process!

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day eleven. Cold Ashton to Bath

Our final day- a walk through pastoral England, wide views, ancient battlefields and a racecourse ahead, before a final descent into an historic city, with it's Roman Baths and the architectural splendour of the Abbey.

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day ten. Old Sodbury to Cold Ashton (Pennsylvania)

Easier walking today with few hills. Crossing busy roads, a deer park, ancient strip lynchets and passing a hill fort where English history was redrawn by the establishment of new political and cultural boundaries.

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day nine. Wotton-under-Edge to Old Sodbury

Today took us first to one of the oldest houses in England, then on to the ramparts and ditches of the most impressive of hill forts on the Cotswold Way. Later, we would pass through parkland landscaped by Capability Brown in the mid-eighteenth century

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day eight. Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge

We continue to follow the western edge of the Cotswold escarpment, with expansive views over the River Severn and Forest of Dean. Another hill fort to visit, and a monument to the man who translated the Bible in to English

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