{"id":9042,"date":"2025-08-22T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:06:44","slug":"the-long-way-roond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/?p=9042","title":{"rendered":"The Long Way &#8216;Roond&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group has-medium-font-size has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-2048x1157.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cover-1200x678.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"wp-block-template-part\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9a245545 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Si from Mountainfeet and team mate Andy Hadfield are hoping to raise funds for Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and awareness for their colleagues in Scottish Mountain Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Using motorcycles, they\u2019re attempting a journey to the bases of all twenty-four volunteer Scottish mountain rescue teams in just eight days. This includes visiting not just the Highlands, but several islands too \u2013 will they manage it?<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the trip came initially from Nick Ray\u2019s inspirational book, Strong Winds Are Forecast, an account of his sea kayaking journey to every RNLI lifeboat station in Scotland. Also providing motivation was Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman\u2019s 2004 \u2018Long Way Round\u2019 motorcycle adventure \u2013 it seemed only right to substitute \u2019roond\u2019 for \u2018round\u2019 as a nod to the Scottishness of this endeavour!<\/p>\n<p>Oldham Mountain Rescue Team is a voluntary organisation at the Northern tip of the English Peak District whose objective is \u2018to save life and alleviate distress, primarily in upland and mountain areas\u2019 without cost or obligation.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to follow the trip which starts on August the 23rd, there&#8217;s a website with full details here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longwayroond.mountainfeet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long Way Roond.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si from Mountainfeet and team mate Andy Hadfield are hoping to raise funds for Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and awareness for their colleagues in Scottish Mountain Rescue. Using motorcycles, they\u2019re attempting a journey to the bases of all twenty-four volunteer Scottish mountain rescue teams in just eight days. This includes visiting not just the Highlands, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/?p=9042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Long Way &#8216;Roond&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainfeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}