It's been a real long time since I last went for a really decent walk. After which I have felt really tired and ready to drop. But thankfully I managed to do this recently. Now my ACL ops are out of the way the long road to rehab and a fully working knee is all infront. I am now walking without sticks and building up the muscles around the knee.
I walked down to Eccup and found some really hidden paths through the woods that were higher up from the offical paths. Now going through thick woods in my condition is not the smartest thing in the world but I went really slow and not once did I risk turning my knee or falling. Walking in the woods brought back some good memories, the smell of fresh air, tree's in the wind and the unexpected new paths.
The only problem I had from the walk was the downhill bits, its hell on a tender knee. I managed to uncover a little waterfall and there was a few caches around the woods that I had yet to find! Not a great start when the navigator software I used on my blackberry for GPS stuff had run out and so me actually finding the caches in the woods was not going to happen. I forgot how poor your phones reception is in woods and outside the city! I really couldnt get any sort of signal.
There are so many places just outside Leeds where you can find peace and quiet! It has been over a year and a half since I have been seriously geocaching so I took a peek on the geocaching.com site and looked for new caches around Leeds and North Yorkshire, wowzers. Some places have got a huge increase in cache placements. There does not seem to be a village or path now where a cache series is not located. Lots is Scoles, Aberford, Linton now have great ones to start/complete. The only catch is they usually involve a decent length walk and dodgey terrain. Not ideal but good for caching.
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