tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post7463145560071614560..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Sandstone Trail TaleSir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-5334313395816942082013-07-07T22:42:03.517+01:002013-07-07T22:42:03.517+01:00Mark - The Sandstone Trail is certainly a good wal...Mark - The Sandstone Trail is certainly a good walk, especially the bits that traverse the obvious sandstone outcrops. The trail is marked on the OS map and it would be easy to cherry pick if that suited.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-44003750784059811212013-07-07T21:38:21.198+01:002013-07-07T21:38:21.198+01:00Hi Conrad,
Considering the fact that I worked in C...Hi Conrad,<br />Considering the fact that I worked in Cheshire for a couple of years, I'm alarmingly ignorant of what it has to offer. I have been to Beeston Castle and although there isn't a great deal of actual castle, it is definitely worth a visit. The Northern escarpments of the Sandstone ridge always intrigue when seen from the motorway on the way to North Wales. I can see that someday I shall have to investigate.Markhttp://www.beatingthebounds.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-49856743391343815032013-07-03T07:43:37.510+01:002013-07-03T07:43:37.510+01:00Say the word "forebodings" out aloud sev...Say the word "forebodings" out aloud several times. I promise you'll never want to use it again.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-12327852192863480352013-07-03T07:41:39.155+01:002013-07-03T07:41:39.155+01:00I'd have divided this up with cross-heads or s...I'd have divided this up with cross-heads or shoulder-heads, (it's very long) but never mind, your selectivity is improving enormously. Throwing in literary allusions too ("pauper spirit"), a phrase that re-tempted me just recently. Having read the piece glancingly in the conventional way I re-read it backwards, paragraph by paragraph. Because of its episodic nature it was just as enjoyable, proving that there's no need to be burdened by strict chronology.<br /><br />As your knees worsen, your other powers are being heightened. Try sitting at your breakfast table at home, ignore all that OS splendour, and put together something on the minutiae of what's visible. Plus your relationship (including irritations) with that view. If you want to reflect sadly on the fact that you aren't, at that moment, struggling against the terrors of cattle-gloop and unavailable accommodation, do it in terms of the items of equipment you've lovingly assessed and bought over the months. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-50662653819842077402013-07-02T19:56:45.510+01:002013-07-02T19:56:45.510+01:00WP - no offers so far.
--------------------------...WP - no offers so far.<br /><br />---------------------------<br /><br />J.L. - Hi. It's good to have a new commenter. I hear what you say, but many photographers have ingeniously found beauty and interest in such surroundings. Despite my forebodings I hope I will be able to go and have a look along with BC.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-9517979144489126302013-07-02T19:15:40.728+01:002013-07-02T19:15:40.728+01:00You're well advised to avoid the gun crime cit...You're well advised to avoid the gun crime city.<br /><br />You might not be mugged or shot but you will certainly be assaulted with abundant evidence of urban nastiness, relative to surrounding countryside. James Lomaxhttp://www.jameslomax.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-44558548009958524562013-07-01T20:40:30.861+01:002013-07-01T20:40:30.861+01:00welshpaddler - naughty! welshpaddler - naughty! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-22701792063567468972013-07-01T20:38:55.510+01:002013-07-01T20:38:55.510+01:00Hello Conrad,
My brother in law, who lives in Che...Hello Conrad,<br /><br />My brother in law, who lives in Chester, and I have walked parts of the Sandstone Way and it is quite picturesque.<br /><br />You might now have made a few ladies all of a tither with your shapely calfs on view! Or is a plan to ensure invites for overnights on future excursions.welshpaddlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385863790733204366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-79329858782885221912013-07-01T19:26:35.627+01:002013-07-01T19:26:35.627+01:00Bowlandclimber - I would certainly recommend the ...Bowlandclimber - I would certainly recommend the S. Trail. I think it is difficult to find a walk in England of that sort that doesn't have a proportion of field bashing other than coastal or canal.<br /><br />Your suggestion is interesting. My calculations say the part I haven't done is 43 miles. Are you aware that it passes through:<br /><br />The edge of Runcorn<br />Warrington<br />Lymm<br />Altrincham<br />Stretford<br />Salford<br />Manchester<br />Droylsden<br />Dukinfield<br />Romiley<br /><br />I would be delighted to complete the thing in your company. I think it would need two night stopovers. I'll give you a call.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-91004497758995241252013-07-01T17:34:05.803+01:002013-07-01T17:34:05.803+01:00Glad that you have come clean and have shown some ...Glad that you have come clean and have shown some reflective appreciation of THE SANDSTONE TRAIL. One of the best short long [I see the illogicality!] distance walks I've completed,see my recent posts, didn't want it denigrated in any way.<br />That aside I think you showed remarkable fortitude to complete it in your circumstances of weather and knee anxiety.<br />By the way I think your apprehension about Manchester gangland may be misplaced and I suggest we join forces [not literally] to walk the stretch you missed from Frodsham to Marple sometime. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com