Tree hunter Rob McBride taking part in the Slow Ways National Parks Trail Challenge

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Shropshire 'tree hunter' Rob McBride is taking part in the Slow Ways National Parks Trail Challenge - aiming to connect all of Britain's National Parks via a 4,000km route.

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00:00My name is Robert McBride from Ellesmere and I'm walking and verifying a section of the new

00:04National Park Trail, an exciting new venture from Dan Raven-Ellison to link up all 15 national parks

00:13from the north of Scotland right down to Plymouth. So national parks like Snowdonia or Eerie,

00:21the Peaks, Peak District National Park, many further south going through London as well

00:27and of course all the way up the lakes. I'd love to do the lot. We'll see how far I can get on this

00:37section anyway for now. See if I can get to Whitchurch. I'd be chuffed. The whole thing's

00:43quite an undertaking you were saying about two and a half thousand miles. It is yeah two and a half

00:47thousand miles. Luckily the national parks they've picked the most scenic linkage routes from each

00:53one and that's why we're in Ellesmere by the Mere here, Blakemere and the Shropshire Union Canal.

00:59How far of it are you walking as kind of part of a team walking the whole thing?

01:03It's a good question. There's 160 of us so far signed up to verify some of the routes

01:07in June. It's all happening in June. Whether it all gets verified I don't know whether it will or

01:14not. It might take a bit longer than that. Myself I don't know. I'm going to do four or five mile

01:20sections depending on how my foot holds up. I've got a little problem with my foot. So we'll see.

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