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The Inca Trail in March 2011 our own Sue Lamarque successfully completed the tough challenge of the Inca Trail to Macchu Pichu.

Click here tor a full account of Sue’s adventure.

Footpath Problems please report by email any problems to Stuart Sherlock

stushurlock@hotmail.com and also report to Hampshire Online at this address: www.hants.gov.uk/rh/row/problem-report.html

Web Site if you have anything you would like to add to this web-site including photos, you are welcome to do so by emailing ramblersnhd@gmail.com Let us know your views and opinions.

Committee our committee meets regularly to discuss all the issues relating to our group. Here are the Minutes and Reports from our committee meeting held on the 3rd October 2011. Click on the titles to view:

The Minutes

The Footpath Report

The Walking Environment Officer’s Report

Annual General Meeting Report for 2011

AGM 2011 Minutes please click here to view.

Saving the Planet - and Your Pocket Too - Travelling to Walks by Public Transport! There are walks that you can get to by bus or train in this programme and you can purchase cheap fares for these. Stagecoach buses do Dayriders tickets, which, if you need to use a number of buses can be quite a saving. It's worth looking at this method of getting to a walk start point and getting home again. South West Trains, First Great Western Trains and Southern Trains all offer group savers where you require three or four people to form a group. You save more for a group of four people. If two weeks' notice could be given then South West Trains do offer a ten of more person big discount, but this would require the leader to be contacted two weeks prior to the date of the walk in order to take advantage of this offer.

Please note - if you are planning to go on one of the more distant walks in the programme by car rather than by train, it would be a great help to know that you are planning on coming, so could you please contact the walk leader listed on the programme for that walk the night before at the latest to confirm that you are going.

A New Edition of a Popular Local Walks Book - Stephen and Pam Turner recently published a revised and updated edition of "Family Walks Around Hook, Hartley Wintney and Rotherwick". Just like the earlier books in this popular series, it includes twelve easy walks suitable for families. the walks described are between three an dive miles long with easy to follow maps. The "Family Walks Around" series was founded by Bob Rose in 1990, and have sold extremely well. As Bob's editions go out of print they will be replaced by further updated versions by Stephen and Pam. they are currently working on the next book "Family Walks Around The Blackwater Valley". The new edition is available at £3.00 from Trees Newsagents in Hook, and bookshops in Fleet and Farnborough, or may be ordered from your local bookshop. Please contact Stephen and Pam on 01252 810852, or see www.elvethampublications.co.uk for further information.

Walking The Way To Health

This scheme is operated by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. The walks are for people who need help to improve their health or maybe to recover after illness or an operation, and to restore their fitness levels. It is not a race! Walks start from Eastrop Park on Mondays (except Bank Holidays) at 11.00 am. One walk is 50 - 60 minutes long, the second is 75 minutes (or 3.5 miles). On Thursdays walks start from Down Grange at 11.00 am, Fridays at Popley at 11.00 am, and also from Tadley at the same time. There are also evening walks all year round between 7.00 and 8.00 pm on a Wednesday. All walks are by trained leaders and back markers. For more details please contact Jane Wilding on 01256 845574.