Expeditions

This page gives all the details of the micro- and mini-expeditions being organised by Walking for Happiness.

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Our future mini-expeditions (and the archive of past expeditions) can be found here.

Here’s the map of all the walks planned so far.

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Click the name of the walk below for further details. If you click the Grid Ref, it will take you to a Google map of the car park.

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It takes you to the Facebook Event: just click the “I am attending” button. (If the booking link doesn’t work, it’s because the walk is in the past! But you could still do it.)

Date	Place	Nearest Town	County	Grid Ref	Post Code	Length	Climb
20 Feb	Devil’s Punch Bowl, Hindhead	Hindhead	Surrey	SU 890 357	GU26 6AG	7.0	900 ft
13 Mar	St Catherine’s Hill	Winchester	Hampshire	SU 484 281	SO23 9QG	7.3	785 ft
27 Mar	Shoreham Woods	Orpington	Kent	TQ 502 616	TN14 7BD	6.7	750 ft
10 Apr	Icknield Way	Tring	Bucks	SP 955 149	HP23 5RX	7.4	730 ft
22 Apr	Beacon Hill	Stokenchurch	Bucks	SU 732 966	HP14 3YJ	6.0	800 ft
25 Apr	Inkpen Beacon	Newbury	Berks	SU 370 621	RG17 9QJ	7.6	1000 ft
28 Apr – 2 May	Coeur de Combray, Ernes	St Pierre sur Dives	Calvados, Normandy		14270 ERNES	Various	Gentle
21 May	Nordic Walking Fair	Southampton	Hampshire	SU 417 111	SO15 1HJ	3	Flat!
22 May	Farley Mount Monument	Winchester	Hampshire	SU 408 293	SO20 6	7.2	700 ft
29 May	Box Hill, Surrey	Dorking	Surrey	TQ 089 478	GU5 9NX	10	1600 ft
30 May	Leith Hill Surrey	Dorking	Surrey	TQ 130 433	RH5 6LS	10.5	1650 ft
12 Jun	Wimbledon Womble	Wimbledon	Surrey	TQ 230 724	SW19 5NQ	7.50	300 ft
26 Jun	Hampstead Heath	Hampstead	Mx	TQ 270 859	NW11 7HR	7.75	700ft
10 Jul	Richmond Park	Richmond	Surrey	TQ 192 706	KT2 5HU	9.50	500 ft
23 Jul	Icknield Way	Tring	Bucks	SP 955 149	HP23 5RX	7.4	730 ft
6-14 Aug	Wild Welsh Wanderings (Africa in Wales)	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	SH 683 168	LL40 1TS	50	13,000 ft
14-15 August	Clarendon Way	Salisbury Cathedral to Winchester Cathedral	Wiltshire & Hampshire	SU 141 295	SP1 2EJ	27	2,300 ft
21 Aug	Epping Forest	Epping	Essex	TQ 404 951	E4 7QH	10.00	650 ft
4 Sept *	Chess Valley	Rickmansworth to Chesham, back by tube	Bucks	TQ 057 946	WD3 1QY	10.50	600 ft
5-12 September	South Downs Way	Winchester Cathedral to Eastbourne Pier	Hampshire and Sussex	SU 481 294	SO23 9LS	101	13,000 ft
25 Sept	Painter’s Hill	Tatsfield	Kent	TQ 373 541	CR3 7AA	11.50	1350 ft

There will be a one-hour Nordic Walking Intro class starting at 9:30am at each location, and the walk proper will start at 10:30am. Reckon we will probably achieve about 2mph overall, to give you an idea of when we might get back.

NOTE that Stokenchurch and Inkpen Beacon are Good Friday and Easter Monday, and Box Hill and Leith Hill are Sunday/Monday on the late spring bank holiday.
This is designed that way on purpose, to give you the chance to begin experiencing walking on more than one day.
If you miss any walk, they will be repeated.

NOTE: Date change since first printed programme (Date of change 8th March 2011, 22:27)

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9 Responses to “Expeditions”

Mala Shah:

January 24, 2011 at 3:07 am

I would suggest to everyone who would like to join the walks.
Please let us contribute at least £10.00 per person as a thank you to James for organising this training.

Warm wishes
Mala
David Clemons:

March 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm

Hello Mala,
Are there any of these types of walking groups in the U.S.A. near the San Francisco Bay area that you know of?

Me and my wife Rhonda are getting ready to train for the Kilimanjaro hike in Feb.

Thank you

David
- James:
  
  March 7, 2011 at 2:33 am
  
  Hi, David, This is James; owner of this website. Try McCormick, Barbara
  Email – blmccormick@earthlink.net, and tell me how you get on. She is listed as a NW instructor for SFO. If that fails, order yourself Leki Spin Nordic Walking poles from Amazon.com (about $80 a set), and have a look at both this website, and http://www.WalkingForHappiness.com, where we have posted some “how to” videos. Get used to them by doing a couple of five mile walks (I recommend country walks rather than mall or town walks), and let us know how you’re doing.
  
  Are you in Mala’s Kili FB group? If so, contact me, James Hardiman, there.
Mala Shah:

March 20, 2011 at 10:15 pm

Hi David,
I am truly excited to hear about your trip to climb Mt Kilimanjaro Feb 2012.
Hope we can meet up during the Climb?
Our group from London, UK is training for Feb, 2012.

Warm wishes
Mala
James:

March 21, 2011 at 10:55 am

Mala … I think David is coming with us! So I hope we’ll meet during the climb ;o)
Jean Paul:

March 25, 2011 at 11:27 pm

Mala (and everybody),

I agree that a contribution of £10 or so would be good value for money. OK, so it costs nothing to go walking, but James and Susan put a lot of effort into organising and arranging these events, and then into training us. If you need to see how much effort, you only have to look at the superb map references nd picture links they supply – you cannot possibly get lost.

I’ll be seeing you all at the next one (and virtually every one after that….)
jp
James:

March 26, 2011 at 1:52 am

Thanks for the comment, Jean. In the not-to-distant future we will be setting up a Walking For Happiness Membership scheme, and a scale of charges for our walks. As you say, we put a lot of effort into planning, designing, staging them … And they will get better and better!

It is probable that the basic charge will be £10 per person per walk, but that you can bring a friend once for free (actually, anyone will be able to have an initial NW class, and one micro-expedition for free).

Membership will be annual, and there will be a single-person rate, and a couple rate.

And membership will have other benefits … They aren’t defined yet, which is one reason the system isn’t up and running.

We’d be interested to hear what you might like to see in a membership package.
Jean Paul:

April 12, 2011 at 11:49 pm

James,
There will apparently be an expedition to Mallorca in October. Will you add that to this (expeditions) page, please? I’m interested to see how hilly it is (well, how mountainous). Thanks.
- James:
  
  April 13, 2011 at 1:07 am
  
  We have a place (a mansion in Soler), we have a date, 8-15 October. We have an objective: part of the Ruta de Piedra en Sec (the dry stone way). I have preliminary figures, but not enough yet to calculate prices.
  
  I have got both paper and electronic maps, and a guidebook. My first stab at a gentle walk to get us going came out with a climb of around 5000ft!
  
  It will be hot, tough and high … But still won’t give us altitude sickness!
  
  I will get further details as soon as I can.

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