Gay Outdoor Club: Walking

Walking is the traditional backbone of the Club, and the level of commitment varies from easy afternoon strolls—sometimes with refreshment before, during and after!—through to strenuous walks over high moorland and long-distance events.
Scrambling and mountain-walking are offered by groups in the appropriate areas, with more strenuous events still covered by the Mountaineering Group.

Every single GOC area group offers walking of some kind, and the co-ordination of events is precisely what you are reading now: the listings, which appear on the website, in the yearbook, and in more detail in the monthly Newsletter. Every weekend of the year generally offers a whole range of walks, and members in any area are of course at liberty to join the events of any other group in the country.

Nor is GOC walking confined to our overall local area, Britain. A Kentish group regularly visits the continent for walking opportunities, and there are walking trips abroad which are normally advertised as one-off events in the Newsletter. Such trips might include trekking and long-distance walking, hut-to-huts, but could also include trips with a botanical or geological study content.

Walking programme information can be found by selecting details for the appropriate local group