The Waycheck is GO! Join us now over the ten glorious days of midsummer and let’s see how many Slow Ways we can check together
Calling everyone who loves walking, running and wheeling! The Great Slow Ways Summer Waycheck is live!
We are busy creating a hugely ambitious national walking network that joins up every town and city in Great Britain.
If this sounds good to you, please join in with the Great Summer Waycheck! There’s an online check-in at 10am on Tuesday – see below.
To be part of the Slow Ways Summer Waycheck, simply travel and check as many Slow Ways as you can between June 14th and 23rd, and watch our collective total on the Waycheck Totaliser.
The Waycheck is our big annual midsummer mission to collectively walk, run, wheel and review as many Slow Ways routes as we can. Last year was FUN. Over the ten glorious days of midsummer, we collectively reviewed hundreds of routes, in groups, in ones and twos, and all over the country. So we’re doing it again! It’s on right now:
Friday 14th to Sunday 23rd of June
It could be your chance to combine with a holiday and do some walks in a new part of the country, try our routing or journey planner to make yourself a bespoke multi-day trail, or re-check your old favourites and make sure they still get through.
We want to make sure Slow Ways across Great Britain are open and ready to be enjoyed… and we’re looking for thousands of people to join up and check part of the country.
1. Don’t miss: the Waycheck check-in on Discord
Join us on the voice channel on our Discord forum at 10am on Tuesday the 18th of June. Meet other people taking part, find out what everyone has been up to so far, or make plans for the rest of the time. Feel free to join in from the trail if you are out walking, or ask for help getting going if you’re not sure where to begin.
2. Check the stats as they come in, on the Waycheck Totaliser!
Last year there were hundreds of routes walked during the Waycheck, of which 72 created newly verified routes (triple-checked and good to go!). How will we do this year? Keep an eye on this page for our collective total:
To be part of the Slow Ways Summer Waycheck, simply travel and check as many Slow Ways as you can between June 14th and 23rd. Tell people about it, post about it on social media, and let’s give a big bump to the progress map below!
It’s a mission that matters
You’ll be helping to create a network not just for walking and wheeling, but for joy, health, love, ideas, creativity, relationships, communities, tackling the climate crisis, connecting to nature and more.
It’s fun too. Some people are walking multiple routes on their own, others are forming teams to check all of their town’s routes in a single day before having a celebratory get-together.
What you can do
- Join the Big Slow Ways 2024 Challenge too, and gather really cool pin badges as you pass milestones!
- Share your plans and journeys with us on social media… #SlowWays
- Tell us your plans in the comments on this page
- Sign-up to the newsletter to stay updated
- Join us on the voice channel on our Discord forum at 10am on Tuesday the 18th of June
- Keep an eye on this Waycheck Totaliser page for our collective total as the ten days progress
Not sure where to walk? Check out our network progress map here to see how the network is progressing in your area. All of those purple routes and triple-approved, or more! And every blue line has been walked and reviewed once or twice. Incredible progress – but we still need more! Help us out in the glorious long days of midsummer, and let’s purple the map a bit more!
You can take part on your own, in a group, with an organisation, as a community or as part of a guided walk. You can walk, run, wheel, bimble or yomp – it all counts.
Up for it? Tell us who you are and what you’re up to by commenting on this page!
