A hike in Warwickshire.

Man you need a good camera some of those pics would be awsome as a screen savers. i would love visit the island on the other side of the pond .... But non you brits can speak proper ENGLISH. Yea i know look whos talking lol

Sasha
 
I particularly savored this one:

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Imagine what these looked like new.

Imagine when they were built, probably 200 years ago. Imagine the guys who built them, what they were like, and what they thought of the view.

What an amazing thing to just come across on your walk. This is a great photo journal!
 
Thanks for all the positive comments.
I agree there are compensations to walking in English countryside as opposed to North American wilderness. I still think I'd feel a little silly building a debris shelter next to a public footpath and using a firesteel to light a fire of wood culled from a hedgerow, when there was a pub 30 minutes walk away! :D

Edited to add: The whole walk is contained in this satellite photo.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.32936,-1.821413&spn=0.024286,0.052443&t=h&z=14
You can see the straight avenue heading slightly north of east from Tanworth-in-Arden. If you zoom right in you can actually see the stone gateposts I photographed, they are where the green part of the avenue ends and a track crosses at right angles.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.338328,-1.813492&spn=0.000379,0.000819&z=20
 
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A.W.U.K. said:
I still think I'd feel a little silly building a debris shelter next to a public footpath and using a firesteel to light a fire of wood culled from a hedgerow, when there was a pub 30 minutes walk away!
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Absolutely, and that's a fundamental realization about survival: the local environment dictates the skills you need at the moment.

1. You will likely never need either skillset if you never leave that area. Instead, you need to focus on other skills. Knowing how to build a debris shelter is a superb skill... but if you live in a barren area, with little useful debris, or you live in a developed urban environment... well, you'll do better studying other things first. On the other hand, people who live in dense urban environments need and have other skills... such as knowing what pubs to stay out of, what restaurants will get you sick if you eat there, and other things. It all balances out! I'm not making fun of you: I live in a developed area as well, and will probably never need some of the stuff I know. But I've observed that *every* environment requires a special or unique skillset to avoid getting killed, hurt, maimed, or sick.

2. Your hike shows the sheer greatness of the outdoors. No matter where you are, in the city or in the middle of nowhere, a trained eye will see how amazing it is. Your pictures are proof enough of that: think how many thousands of people have seen those same sights, but never came away as impressed as you were. And I know, because your pictures impressed all of us!
 
Sometime you see the pic or visit old places i cant stop but wish that they could talk(silly i know but still) The history behind each one of them the sweat the love and the human life that was part of each one of them is amazing. One reason i love to read history books.

Sasha
 
Looks like a good walk there! Nice to see another fellow Brit around too.

pitdog said:
Looked like a great walk buddy !

People have often said on this forum how nice my hiking area's are over here in Canada but I still miss my hikes in the Peak District etc back in the UK. All my hikes in the UK used to include a nice country pub somewhere along the route, that's something I can't do here !!!!!
Keep postin those Brit pics buddy !!!!
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I sometimes get really, really envious looking at the photos some of the folks here post, to the point that I can't open some threads for a while 'cos I get a little depressed. Then when I get over myself I open them and just marvel at the beauty.

But from now on, I'll think, "yeah, but where's the pub???" A good pint of ice-cold Guinness after a good long walk on a Summer's day. Priceless!

Thanks pitdog! I feel a little bit better about British walking now.
 
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