I posted the first chapter of my next book about my Appalachian Trail thru-hike – Balancing on Blue, here a few weeks ago and promised that chapter 2 would come along as well.   I hope to have the book finished and available sometime in the autumn.   Here it is. Enjoy!  

  On hitting the shores of Blighty after returning from my Appalachian Trail thru- hike in late 2012, the air was buzzing. Catching up with work on the pc, I was constantly met by one word – Trailstar. Having been out of touch for a while in the woods, I admit I didn’t know what […]

  Francis Tapon first caught my attention as he was the first person to yo-yo the Continental Divide Trail. A yo-yo is basically walking the entire length of a trail and then turning round and walking back to the start again. He completed the 5,600 miles in just 201 days, an average of 28 miles […]

  I’m very happy to say that around August of this year I will be walking the 500 miles that make up EL Camino de Santiago, on the Camino Francais route again. This is the third time, I walked it initially back in 2002 and again last year. So, why do it again?  

  I had a very nice week in Greece, thanks for asking. Apart from a few walks in wonderful cool, early season weather I’m pleased to report that relaxation being the primary goal, I never went over 5 miles on any of them. I even managed to get up on the South Downs last night […]

  It was with some giddy excitement that I parked the van in Winchester at 6am on a beautiful Saturday morning a few of weeks ago. The weather report promised great things, spring was kicking in as though it had just woken up from a long sleep and suddenly realised there was much work to […]

How I managed to get my packweight down to below 4 kilos for summer hiking and what’s in it.

Read chapter one of ‘Balancing on Blue’ – my Appalachian Trail memoir due for release at the end of the summer.