Between 1st and 4th September 2010 Rory and Simon completed an 80 mile 'Source to Sea' walk along the Eden.  Simon’s short, fat hairy legs (his own words) aren't really designed for walking and as such he found the first two days pretty hard going trying to keep up with Rory ‘Mountain Goat’ Stewart!  He went on to describe the process of getting his boots on each morning as ‘rather a challenge’. 

Both the landscape and the excellent ERT staff, guests, landowners and volunteers the duo met along the way were stimulating and inspiring.  Highlights were too numerous to list but the first mornings walk down from Hell Gill to Kirby Stephen, with the mist clearing off the fells, was very special indeed.  During the four days ERT described and showed Rory many aspects of our work from electro-fishing, crayfish surveying, habitat restoration, farm conservation advice and invasive species management through to our research and education based activities. 

To have four days with our local MP was an opportunity not to be squandered and in Rory's words it was "a wonderful four days. I learnt an enormous amount from the ERT team and I will remember it forever".

To date we have raised about £900, which is a little disappointing considering the pain Simon had to endure.  But the success of the endeavour should not be measured in fiscal terms alone.  The wide-ranging PR and numerous networking opportunities the walk created were priceless, all of which has ensured that awareness of the ‘ERT brand’ continues to grow.

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Easy....unlike the walk! 
 

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