Covid Advice for Walks
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Sheffield Walking Group
Sheffield Walking Group
Walks Programme
COVID-19 and Guidance for Walkers
Restarting group walks
We are delighted to have restarted our walks programme, albeit with some restrictions in place. Reducing the risks of Covid-19 for you, your fellow walkers and those they come in contact with is everyone’s responsibility. Here are some important points for everyone on walks:
- If you have Covid-19 symptoms you must NOT attend any group walk. This is crucial, even if it means cancelling shortly before the walk starts. Symptoms include a new, continuous cough, high temperature and/or loss or change of taste and smell.
- You MUST book on a walk beforehand: You’ll be turned away if you haven’t. This is because the maximum group size is 30 (or less at the walk leader's discretion).
- Book using EventBrite via the link in the walk description. This allows us to manage numbers and reduces work for our walk leaders.
- If showing SOLD OUT, please check back in case places become available. If you are unable to attend you MUST cancel your booking via EventBrite immediately to give others a chance to book on in your place.
- Please respect others by keeping a distance of 2 metres and standing back to give way.
- Good hand hygiene: avoid touching gates, stiles, path benches, etc. where possible. Bbring hand sanitiser for when this is unavoidable. Do not share food, water or walking equipment.
- Please follow your walk leader's advice: They have a responsibility to ensure that walks are safe for everyone. They may even gently remind you about social distancing and good hygiene.
For more info please read the Ramblers' Quick Guide for Walkers and also their more general guidance.
We’ve done our best to ensure that walks are as safe as possible and the booking system is fair for everyone. However, we can always improve things, so please do email us some feedback.
Above all, please enjoy getting back walking with your SWG friends!
SWG Committee
Places available on walks
Key
dog-friendly 
challenge 
child-friendly 
fast-paced 
linear walk
Changes to the printed programme are shown in red.
9mi/14km,
Rushup Edge-Great Ridge Circular
Start: Open in map app SK123854, Marys Lane, Edale
Transport: Meet at 10:00 at the walk start. Meet at 10am Sunday in Edale Car Park, just outside the train station. The 09:14 train from Sheffield arrives into Edale at 09:46.Trains heading back to Sheffied are at 14:28, 15:30 and 15:46.
Walk Leader: Ben G (07723570414)
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
Starting at Edale, we walk towards Barber Booth before taking the Chapel Gate track up to the top of the Rushup Edge. This is a strenuous but steady climb of a bit less than a mile. We then walk along the ridge, stopping to take in the views at Lord’s Seat, before heading down towards its end.
We then make the step but short climb up to Mam Tor and walk along the Great Ridge, all the way up to Lose Hill (another step/short climb). This walk provides stunning views of both the Edale and Hope valleys. We’ll then back track along the ridge to Hollins Cross, and make our way back down to Edale.
It’s likely to be windy/cold on the ridges so please bring appropriate clothes and food/drink for lunch. There’s also some parts where the ground is likely to be a bit boggy, so please wear appropriate footwear.
Walk leader - Ben G
Places - 15
COVID-19
Due to COVID-19, we all need to take extra steps to stay safe. Please follow all safety advice given by the walk leader, including the latest guidelines on physical distancing. For more information about COVID-19 and Ramblers group walks, please see our guidance for walkers on the coronavirus pages of the Ramblers website.
Booking your place: If you would like to join this walk, please book a place here.
Please sign up by Saturday at 18:00.
If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking so that someone else can take your place.
Please do not turn up for a walk without booking, as we will have to turn you away.
Booking on walks is ONLY by EventBrite - do not try to book on directly with the walk leader
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Autumn in the Lakes
We are returning to the Bury Jubilee Hostel at the base of Helvellyn for our October weekend away, with great opportunity to bag this great mountain. There is plenty of other fantastic walking to be done in the area. Although the hostel is relatively basic, it is in a fantastic location and very reasonably priced. This is always a popular weekend.
Remember to bring your PPE and/or alcohol hand gel, keep your distance and follow walk leader's advice
0mi/0km,
SWG AGM
Start: Open in map app , 19:00
Transport: Meet at 01:00 at unspecified meeting place.
Walk Leader: Nigel L (0777 934 2861)
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
Calling all SWG members!
The time has come for this year’s Annual General Meeting, which means it is time to say goodbye to the current committee and welcome a new one. Unfortunately we will not be able to hold the AGM in a pub function room like we usually do and we will have to get by with Zoom. If you are not familiar with Zoom but want to join the meeting, we will be happy to show you how to use it. Please email sheffieldwalkinggroup@hotmail.com if you need help using Zoom.
Some people from the current committee are standing for their roles again, but don’t let this stop you applying. The roles that are available are:
Chair
Vice Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Publicity Officer
Weekends Away Coordinator
Social Secretary (x 2)
Website Coordinator
If you wish to stand for any of the above roles, please email sheffieldwalkinggroup@hotmail.com with your name, Ramblers membership number, which role you are standing for and also your manifest.
Please note you will only be allowed to join the meeting if you are a Ramblers member. Details of how to log into the meeting will be given nearer the date and voting will be done by online poll, which will be explained on the night.
See our AGM page for more detailed information. Hope you can make it!
SWG Committee 2019/20
Spaces are very limited - let us know straight away if you cancel
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Splendid Seahouses
*** CANCELLED because the Bunkhouse is no longer a bunkhouse, sorry :-( ****
** This weekend away has been rescheduled from May 2020 due to Covid-19 **
(May 2020 itself was a rescheduling from May 2019 because the bunkhouse had double booked us - but this weekend away will happen one day, for sure!)
To wave goodbye to spring and say hello to summer we are visiting the stunning Northumberland Coast. We will be staying in the Lookout at Springhill Farm by Seahouses for three nights of the Bank Holiday weekend. For more information see https://www.springhill-farm.co.uk/the-lookout.
There will be sand (guaranteed), castles (guaranteed), sand-castles (if you make them - bring your bucket and spade), kippers (optional), a beach barbeque (weather permitting) and sunshine (with hopefully a clouds in between for us pasty folk who burn easily).
Booking on walks is ONLY by EventBrite - do not try to book on directly with the walk leader
