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2010 WALKS
Monthly walks are held on the second Saturday of each month, May to October inclusive. These are as much a social event as a healthy-living activity, and we attempt to finish off each walk with Tea. Tea-time is taken in a village hall, a community building, sometimes at a member‘s home or on the hoof, picnic style. The food is mostly a ‘bring and share’ affair, although we occasionally have a catered Farmhouse Tea when there is something to celebrate.
The walks are usually local circular ones from three to five miles in length. We have at least one shared walk each year with Ivegill Footpath Group, which is an out-of-area ‘expedition’ to a neighbouring parish or county. These walks are longer than the local ones, but never more than ten miles.


Saturday, 12 June
Leaving from the White Bridge, Dalston at 1:30pm
Route: Dalston Village periphery finishing at Buckabank for tea.
Hosts: Terry and Sue Nichol
Walk Leaders: Sue and Terry Nichol

Sunday, 20th June
Ivegill Footpath Group's next monthly walk will take place on Sunday, 20th June.
RFG members are welcome to join them.
Start, 2:30 p.m. at Blue Bell House, Sowerby Row
Contact Alan Lyne for more information tel. 01697-476304
Leaders: Kath & Mike Worrall

Saturday, 10th July
Joint IFG/ RFG walk – details to be arranged.


PARISH PATHS INITIATIVE
Dalston Parish Council is a participant in this Cumbria-wide PROW improvement programme.
Cumbria County Council have a good web site for the PPI. Here is a link to it.

Update. An application is being prepared for this year's improvements. It is proposed to continue with removing stiles and replacing them with kissing gates. The preferred locations (subject to obtaining landowner approval) are: Cumbria Way as far as Bog Bridge; Sowerby Wood thereby creating an extension to the Redspear Activity Circuit. Full details to follow when and if the application is approved.


ADOPT-A-WAY
A-A-W volunteers undertake to monitor one or more PROW, or a length of one, reporting damage or problems to the A-A-W co-ordinator who passes the report to East Cumbria Countryside Programme for action. Please contact us to volunteer for Adopt-A-Way.

Update. AAW volunteers have been contacted to request their co-operation in providing RFG with a condition report for the paths they have adopted. This is to obtain as much information on the state of
Dalston's rights of way prior to the start of next year's 5-year rolling maintenance programme. The work of the programme is undertaken by Carlisle City Council's 'Green Spaces Team' based at Bousteads Grassing. Andrew Nicholson, formerly of East Cumbria Countryside Project, will most likely be in charge.