Category: Day Walk
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Patterdale 26/10/2025
NUFWS returned to the Lake District for its 2nd day trip of the year, this time setting off from the village of Glenridding. A serene morning outside the arches soon morphed into a quite rainy and windy day in the West, although forecasted, was nonetheless not desirable. A long route under the guise of Wilcox…
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Western Lakes 10/10/2025 – 12/10/2025
NUFWS descended upon the western lakes for its first weekend trip at Felldyke bunkhouse, setting off from Newcastle on time (for once) meaning everyone could get a good nights rest ready for the big walk on Saturday. Waking up bright and early, we trailed down to Wasdale head to have a go at an extended…
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Threlkeld 5/10/2025
NUFWS kicked off the year with a visit to the village of Threkeld in the Lake District to tackle a classic fell – Blencathra. A bikeless gear secretary braved the early morning romp to the gear store to round up his kit to take to the Student’s Union where a rabble of eagar fellwalkers were…
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Hadrians Wall day trip – 28/09/2025
Thanks for those who turned up at Central Station for an informal walk along Hadrian’s Wall. We passed Sycamore Gap and other stunning scenery enjoying a beautiful sunny day for the 16Km walk. We rounded things off with a pint in Haltwhistle before heading back to Newcastle. We hope those who went along enjoyed it…
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Langdale 3/5/2025
A lovely sunny day dawned long before we awoke and set off on the coach from Newcastle, heading to Langdale. Upon arriving we met up with Little Dom, Em and Diana and then set off on our walks. The medium walk went up the Cumbria way onto the Langdales and then dropped down to Stickle…
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Kielder 15/3/2025
A lovely sunny day started with the nice short coach journey from Newcastle to Kielder where we gathered for a group photo by the squirrel statue before setting off on our separate walks. One half of the medium group set out along the reservoir edge passing underneath the viaduct and seeing a bench with wooden…
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Grasmere 22/2/2025
It was very nice to meet in the light for the first time in a while and we set off on a pleasantly warm and dry days walking in Grasmere. The short walk had a lovely walk over to Rydal caves and came back into Grasmere via Loughrigg fell(335m). Taking in some beautiful views and…
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Braithwaite 1/2/2025
A beautiful day started in the cold in Newcastle and we drove into the sunrise across to the lakes to find some unseasonably warm weather. Four routes were taken on a blue sky day with a dusting of snow and ice on the high summits and some biting wind coming across the tops of the…
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Keswick day trip 07/12/2024
Our final day trip of the term was to Keswick. Setting off into the wind and rain brought about by Strom Darragh we tackled some new routes. As we set off into the rain along the old railway line from Keswick to Threlkeld we enjoyed seeing all of the architecture along the route before we…
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Malham day trip 24/11/2024
On a wet morning after a week of cold temperatures we departed Newcastle in the pre-dawn light for the wonderful country of Yorkshire and Malham. After negotiating some large puddles created by some overflowing rivers we arrived safely to dry skies and good visibility. There was for the first time this year a running group…
Newcastle University Fellwalking Society 