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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-7 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2024:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage,, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Winston Feather.

Friday, 15 May 2020

Harris Hikers Solo Adventures Friday 15th May

A Roadside Walk to Broughton Retail Park and Back.
Traffic on Chester Road at about 13-15.
Bretton Lane.
One person per table - solo outdoor dining at AMRC
Red valerian on the roadside.
? Hawkweed on the roadside verge.
Oxeye daisy on the roadside verge.
Looking over Hopes Place Farm towards Hope Mountain.
Traffic on Chester Road at about 13-45
Distance: 4.5 miles. Climb: 30'.
Time: 1 hour 31 minutes. On the mover walking average: 3.1 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.9 m.p.h.
No real leisure walk for me today, I neededto pick up my prescription from Boots, so I decided to walk to Broughton Retail Park to collect them.
I was rather over cast with a coolish breeze. 
At first there seemed to lots of cars and cyclsts heading towards Chester, it must have nbeen a Airbus shift change time.
Traffic noise made hearing birds quite difficult. Nevertheless the birds I did see or hear included: house sparrow, Common blackbird, Black billed magpie, Collared dove, Comon starling, Winter wren, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Greenfinch, Common whitethroat, Goldfinch, Mallard and Common buzzard.
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