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Trail Mix

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How to Hike the North Western Falls

In North America hiking often feels like organised fun. Everything is colour coded with explicit signage and markers. But back home in Cumbria you get some scrappy directions to a muddy path behind a barn, winding its way through farmland. You hike the way Wainwright hiked with no trailheads, just some chicken scratch in an old book. If I open up Book 6, the north western fells and turn to sail fell, there are no page numbers by the way,. There are sketches of the Wythup Valley with sheep silhouetted in the foreground. And here's a drawing of the ruins of a church to use as a landmark for directions. They give you pictures and

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