Hiking Hadrian’s Wall, Virtually
I’m a purist trekker when it comes to walking long-distance designated trails. I insist they be step-by-step odysseys with no skipping of sections deemed to be of lesser interest. In the summer of 2005, I hiked a portion of the Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail that rolls across northern England. I followed a wall of tightly fitted gray stones to a high point above Crag Lough where a pair of swans drifted over the still water. It was there that I vowed to return someday and walk the whole thing. Earlier this year, I did just that. Virtually.
