“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.” John Muir

Anyone who knows me, knows I bloody love a list! The nation’s top 100 walking hotspots were revealed on ITV’s ‘Britain’s Favourite Walks: Top 100’, And without even realising or knowing about the list (I was late to the party, I only watched it last month) I have almost completed the top ten in my first year as a hiker!! Something that makes me very happy. This is going to be a week of the list, broken down into 20’s so I can add my own pictures and link to my own blog post of each walk. These are just selfish blog posts so I can keep ticking them off and adding my experiences when completed! If you have done any of the walks or can recommend better walks please add them to the comments at the end, would love your input.

1. Helvellyn via Striding Edge Walk – Lake District Completed

2. Snowdon Llanberis Path – Snowdonia – Completed

3. Malham Cove and Gordale Scar Walk – Yorkshire Dales

4. Cat Bells Walk – Lake District – Completed

5. Scafell Pike Walk – Lake District – Completed

6. Tryfan and the Glyder Walk – Snowdonia

7. Buttermere Walk – Lake District – Completed

8. Old Man of Coniston Walk – Lake District

9. Craster to Dunstanburgh Castle Walk – Northumberland

10. Mam Tor and the Great Ridge – Peak District – Completed

11. Pen y Fan Walk – Brecon Beacons

12. Ben Macdui Walk – Cairngorms

13.South Downs Way Walk – South Downs

14. West Highland Way – Scottish Highlands – Planned May 2020

15. Ben Nevis – Scottish Highlands – Planned May 2020

16. Solva to St Davids Walk – Pembrokeshire

17. Whitby to Robin Hoods Bay – North Yorkshire

18. Sycamore Gap and Hotbank Crags – Hadrians Wall

19. Old Harry Rocks – Dorest

20. The Lizard Peninsula Walk – Cornwall – Completed