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AKA the north side of Mt. Washington starting at Del Rio Park – an improvement in a still industrial part of Los Angeles. You soon start walking up to one of a handful of “stairway streets” with homes whose only access is by stair: Tillie Street built in 1928: looking down Tillie “Street” across Taylor […]

Having enjoyed the walk through Los Feliz, decided to start at the beginning. Fortunately the walks in Charles Fleming’s Secret Stairs ( https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Stairs-Walking-Historic-Staircases-ebook/dp/B0087GZBDA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ALM9Z46OTG39&keywords=charles+fleming&qid=1560117985&s=gateway&sprefix=Charles+fle%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1) go from east to west, so the first walks start nearby. The first walk is through the hilly area of Pasadena east of Figueroa and south of the 134 Freeway. You start […]

Having walked most of the routes in Echo Park and Silver Lake it was time to start into the Hollywood Hills. Historic stairways lead up past listed homes abutting Griffith Park with commanding views of Los Angeles to the Pacific ( though not so much today given the June gloom). A back door into Griffith […]

Weather has definitely turned. Highs in the 50s, windy and rain. But well worth the views back to the Black Hills. And ahead into the Radnor Hills Up and down to the villages of Newchurch (on the Arrow) and Gladestry before final climb and walk along Hergest Ridge before descending into Kington, Herefordshire, for the […]

After a quick tour around St Cadoc in Llangatock Lingoed and a walk across country to Pandy and over the Honddu, I begin climbing the Black Hills – Hatterall Hill in particular. Pasture quickly turns into heather and a the transition point a 4000 year old Iron Age fortress interrupts the progress. This is followed […]