What are your walking plans for 2026? Got any walk, project or challenge goals? #SlowWays #BusAndBack 🐌✨

Haven't posted much about #SlowWays or walking here for a while, so here are a few pictures of yesterday's walk from Stone to Hixon, mostly on the Trent & Mersey canal. Would do Alt text but they'd all say "icy canal".

Walking the Cambrian Way in April.

Walk and snail as many as I can; beat last year's total; do a fair few #busandback routes; and try to start the Slow Ways Coast To Coast challenge.

To get everything on my SlowWays walked routes connected (except New Quay-Aberaeron which is just too far to do as day trips). The other two gaps are reconnecting Bangor-Chester-Kelsall and Buckingham-Milton Keynes with the rest, which stretches from Skegness & Silsden to Weston-s-Mare & Southend).

Just started making plans for the third annual summer holiday trip to explore more Slow Ways. Right now, the area around York is in the lead but that may change. Previous trips to Bath and Cambridge were amazing!

What are your walking plans for 2026? Got any walk, project or challenge goals? #SlowWays #BusAndBack 🐌✨

This is one of the treats on the excellent seven mile @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route between Horton and Settle, train one way, walk back! beta.slowways.org/Route/Horset...

Looking forward to a big year of exploring, expanding and strengthening the @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walking network + a new project that's even bigger! Kicked off with a NY hike from #Paignton to friends in #Totnes. beta.slowways.org/Route/Totpai... #SlowWays #Totpai

A year for green paths! @righttoroam.bsky.social @slowwaysuk.bsky.social

Bright and early (and frosty!) start to the day to do two versions of a Lancashire #SlowWaysUK, my last of 2025. Best get cracking before the trains get weird for New Year!

What's your favourite kind of landscape for a walk?

Perfect day for a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social adventure. I jumped on the train from Kidwelly to Burry Port, walking back almost exclusively on the National Cycle Network in gorgeous sunny weather. Highly recommended 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #Kidwelly #BurryPort #Pembrey #Carmarthenshire #SlowWays #Wales #Cymru

What's your favourite kind of landscape for a walk?

Where are you exploring today? #SlowWays

Where are you exploring today? #SlowWays

To all my @slowwaysuk.bsky.social friends #slowways #BusAndBack #walking #maps

The next one would be a much bigger #BusAndBack challenge! Check out #ScotLink's 913/915/976 route between #Glasgow and #Skye 😍 You could do it all at once, in segments over the year.. or just a leg of it. citylink.co.uk/timetables-s... #SlowWays 🐌💫🧵2

We're looking forward to hearing about people's #BusAndBack walking adventures in 2026. buildstories.slowways.org/bus-and-back/ We're slowly going to share a thread of ideas. We'd love to see yours too! First, how about #TfL's 389 in #Barnet? At 1.5 miles, is this the UK's shortest route? 🧵

We're looking forward to hearing about people's #BusAndBack walking adventures in 2026. buildstories.slowways.org/bus-and-back/ We're slowly going to share a thread of ideas. We'd love to see yours too! First, how about #TfL's 389 in #Barnet? At 1.5 miles, is this the UK's shortest route? 🧵

Join our #BusAndBack challenge in 2026! It’s a great way to discover new places, help our mission to find the best A to B routes and celebrate the benefits of bus-based adventures. Find out more buildstories.slowways.org/bus-and-back Where will you go? #SlowWays

Join our #BusAndBack challenge in 2026! It’s a great way to discover new places, help our mission to find the best A to B routes and celebrate the benefits of bus-based adventures. Find out more buildstories.slowways.org/bus-and-back Where will you go? #SlowWays

Where are you exploring this weekend? #SlowWays #Dartmoor #Devon

Looking for a walking project in 2026? Why not walk and grow a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social web!? Plot it out using our Journey Planner beta.slowways.org/Allroutes! Where would you most like to give this a go? Already got a #SlowWays web? I'd love to see it! 🐌💫

After that beautiful winter sunlight last week, it was dreary rain on yesterday's first @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Middlewich to Winsford. #UKCanals

#Bridges on the Lancaster Canal in clear, low winter sun. #UKCanals @slowwaysuk.bsky.social

Late afternoon on the #Lancaster #Canal on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Garstang. #reflections #UKCanals #trees

I've been nominated for the Great Outdoors Awards campaigner of the year for my work on #SlowWays. The award is for "campaigns or campaigners who who stand up, speak out and act on the issues that matter to walkers". I'd love your support. Please vote > www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/the-gre...

Some more gorgeous crisp winter light from a short @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Chapel Stile to Ambleside #LakeDistrict

Looking for a walking challenge or project to complete next year? Here are 10 ideas! buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for... #SlowWays

Looking for a walking challenge or project to complete next year? Here are 10 ideas! buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for... #SlowWays

Why not try our routing to find great A-B hikes across Great Britain? Just search for the names of any town, city or hub in our network. beta.slowways.org/routing #SlowWays

As if I would want to trespass here?! @slowwaysuk.bsky.social from Prescot to Belle Vale near Liverpool.

Why not try our routing to find great A-B hikes across Great Britain? Just search for the names of any town, city or hub in our network. beta.slowways.org/routing #SlowWays

Isle of Wight Slow Ways Topological Map created using AI ChatGPT Walk betw any town, city and national landscape in Britain 10,000 A-to-B walking + wheeling routes, mapped and checked by🙏 @slowwaysuk.bsky.social Dan Raven Ellison beta.slowways.org #30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A new tool

The aptly named Happy Valley. On Netcat2 #SlowWays Nethern-on-the-Hill to Caterham, and on the #LondonLoop

Why not use #SlowWays to set yourself a walking challenge? beta.slowways.org

@slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Bath to Radstock.

Four views from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Street to Bridgwater in #Somerset.

“I’ve done so many A to B walks that a circular walk from a car seems pointless to me now" David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social went on a #SlowWays hike with the brilliant @maryoz.bsky.social and Susan. Read all about it on his Substack!

What a treat! Join Richard Hutton retired @Hillingdon woodland officer at 10am on Mon 10th November for a walk in #Ruislip woods & learn about the fascinating folklore of trees. Meet at Woodland Centre #RuislipLido @willnorman.co.uk @capitalwalks.bsky.social @slowwaysuk.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk

Part of the answer to this is to get outside and go for a walk. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A local @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk on Saturday, another version of Tarleton to #Preston. #Halloween #Bridge #Lancashire

Latest 🏞️ notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity #PeakDistrict - ta @maryoz.bsky.social @slowwaysuk.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

“I’ve done so many A to B walks that a circular walk from a car seems pointless to me now" David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social went on a #SlowWays hike with the brilliant @maryoz.bsky.social and Susan. Read all about it on his Substack!

Up for helping with #SlowWays this weekend? This map shows 900 routes across Britain that need just one more good review to be verified🐌✅⭐️❤️ Could you check one... or even a trail of routes? And inspire others to follow in your footsteps? Take look: beta.slowways.org/user/waylist...

From my #Cotswolds @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walks this week, Moreton to Stow to Northleach to Cheltenham. An absolute abundance of #FungiFriday!

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Brilliant stuff! Check out this wonderful new initiative from our friends at #GoJauntly and the #NationalTrust! #Naturehood - love it ✨ Thank you 💚

Some more pictures from the lovely Edale Hathersage @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route. @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social Sorry I haven't got more views from up on the ridge, but they looked a bit dull under the grey sky when they were only phone sized!