- These walks are open to all, no need to book, everybody welcome.
- Meet in the middle carriage of the train, or on the platform at the start of the walk.
- Please note that the club just organises the rota, not the walks themselves. It has no legal existence or insurance. The rota enables people independently walking the route to walk togther. As such, you should bring the appropriate Time Out book or a printout of the walk directions.
- The group is self-organising: do not expect to be led, and feel free to take your own pace, or form into smaller groups.
- The cognoscenti check the return train times.
- You can also catch a train from your local station, or connect with the walk at an outer London station, eg. Clapham Junction, East Croydon.
- You can of course drive to a walk, but (especially with Book 1 walks) check that the start and finish stations are on the same line!
- Walk Rota: The Book 1 (Vigorous, Nature, Relaxed and Creative) and Book 2 (Main, Vigorous, Sunday) walk rotas have been replaced over time. See above for the current walk schedule.
- To submit a walk or social event of your own, contact one of the 'bloggers', or see the contacts page.
New members - how to join on our club walks
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Me & my friend are keen on getting involved on long weekend walks in preperation for a trek in snowdon in March. We are not the fittest or most organised people but keen to see the schedule for all upcoming events so we can diaries these in advance.
Many thanks
The schedule of all upcoming events is THIS WEEK'S WALKS
http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/this_week.shtml
This is as far ahead as we plan, I am afraid!
What dates will you be planning the walks from Walton on Naze to Clacton on Sea?
How to know how many people are coming to particular walk in advance? I am new and dont want to b alone for first walk.
Attendance varies a lot. Sorry we don't know in advance.
More people (up to 40)
- south of London
- good weather
- later start
Fewer people
- bad weather
The only times when there are no people are when there have been cancelled trains or very bad weather.
I am not a 'New Member' but thought this might be the best place to ask if it is time to schedule just one Sunday walk. It was very poignant to read the plea from 'Kim V' today, waiting on the Lenham platform on her own. When I plug the wonders of the SWC group on Ramblers walks, I like to use the perhaps now dated image that, in walking terms, it is a compromise between Brexit and Remain: individual freedom within a group. The common fear I hear is what has happened to Kim V today: coming alone, travelling back alone and never coming again. Many women, even in large urban green spaces, are afraid to walk on their own, and men also expect some company. Wouldn't one walk on a Sunday reduce this risk? Thank you.
I'm inclined to agree with Kevin. Looking back over the last six months there's only been an average of seven people on the Sunday walks I've posted. I've never been on my own (like Kim V today) but sometimes had just one or two others for company. And once word spreads that you could be the only person to show up it's bound to have a negative effect on people thinking about trying us.
If anything, choosing just one Sunday walk will probably *decrease* the total numbers turning up for a club walk, since anyone who finds the posted walk unappealing or inconvenient won't come at all. But as long as walk posters don't pick anything too offbeat it should reduce the risk of very low turnouts.
When GMT kicks in I suggest that we post just one Sunday walk for a trial period of a few months. I'm happy to cut down from one walk every two weeks to one every four weeks, or even drop out altogether if other posters want to keep their slots.
I'm inclined to disagree with Kevin. As I've been saying for at least 15 years, this walking club unnecessarily limits its target audience by posting walks that are samey, i.e. of similar length, on most given days (and by posting late/only days before the date of the walk, but that's not relevant in this particular case).
I can't have been the only one yesterday wanting to join a group walk only to find that both SWC options were approximately 3 hour walks, on a dry day with a sunny afternoon forecast, 2 weeks before the clocks go back! Not worth getting on a train for, really. I walked my own walk of proper length instead.
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