Gay walking
Gay Walking Groups In The UK
3. Mountain Walks and Winter Mountain Walks
These are more strenuous, and will typically take a full day. There will be several hundreds of meters of ascent and descent, and the terrain and conditions will normally be more challenging, and the weather can have a much greater impact on the event. The collective size will be smaller to reflect the more challenging conditions. You will need to have more equipment to take part. If you already favor hiking in mountainous terrain, these walks may be ideal for you.
Mountain walks are often, but not always, found as part of OutdoorLads hostel weekends, simply because the more remote locations can grab too much time to get to for them to be practical as day walks, especially on shorter winter days.
OutdoorLads runs Mountain Walking events all over the UK where there are mountains. Areas such as the Lake District, Snowdonia, and the Scottish Highlands.
Winter Mountain Walks are the most challenging, as you can expect there to be snow and ice and the conditions will be much tougher. As a result, the group size will also be smaller, to authorize the event leader to guide the participants safel
Whether you call it walking, hiking, or rambling, the Gay Sunday Walking Collective goes out and enjoys it – in London, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
You don’t have to be an experienced rambler to take part; in fact many of our members have developed a taste for the unseal air as a outcome of coming on one of our walks for the first time.
We usually have at least two walks every month: one half-day walk (about 3 to 6 miles), usually in one of the greener parts of Greater London, and one full-day walk (about 7 to 12 miles), usually in the countryside but within about an hour’s prepare journey from central London.
We welcome people of any age, and walk at a comfortable pace. All our walks can be reached by public transport. We also try to include parking information for drivers where possible. On full-day walks we often stop at a pub or café for lunch but you can carry a packed lunch if you prefer.
Despite the group’s name, we have walks on Saturdays as adv as Sundays, and occasionally on a bank holiday Monday.
The group is dash by its members as a voluntary not-for-profit club. It is affiliated to the Rambler
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Walks
GAYSWAG walking group for gay men, founded in 2004. We walk together on Sunday afternoons, typcially alternate weeks during the summer and monthly during the winter. Please see our Walks page for more details and our Events page for specific dates and locations of walks.
This site also hosts details of social get-togethers at The Old Boot Inn in Seaford and The Hart in Eastbourne. All LGBTQ+ adults are welcome to these socials. Please see our Socials page for more information + our Events page for dates, times and locations.
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