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Rusland ramble

8:00am Friday 7th January 2011

THIS is a fairly long walk, slightly challenging and quite delightful, just right to welcome in the New Year. It is called a Rusland Ramble and an excellent laminated leaflet, describing much of the route has been designed by Rusland and District WI. It takes you along walled farm tracks and beside charming streams. It visits a restored tannery before climbing through glorious woodland. Once through the trees it continues over high moorland, rather wet in places, with fine views of the Lakeland fells. If all that is not enough there is an optional diversion around pleasing High Dam. Your return is through the hamlet of Crosslands and finally on to the lovely St Paul’s Church, on its hill, from where you started.

Stroll the dramatic limestone countryside above Malham

10:40am Friday 26th November 2010

A walk from Malham THIS is a glorious walk through the dramatic limestone countryside above Malham. The village was once a centre for great sheep fairs. Two abbeys, Fountains and Bolton, had granges - high-level grazing - in the dale. Sheep farming was an important occupation and brought a good income for the monks. They transported the wool from the outlying granges by trains of packhorses and as they journeyed back and forth they made good tracks over the moors.

View Windermere from the glorious heights of Gummer's How

9:30am Friday 8th October 2010

ON A VERY windy early autumn day a forest walk can be pleasant. If the sun is shining, the light slanting through the trees can be quite beautiful. Many deciduous trees will be beginning to change colour, fungi will abound, and paths carpeted with conifer needles and cones.