Time to say goodbye.

Sorry to hear your leaving Doug. I haven't been on the site much lately either but find it hard to give up altogether. I've enjoyed your trips and company. Take care x

So sorry to see this post. I joined last summer and life has just stopped me from getting to check the site and get out as I would have liked. I really Enjoyed the Hope walk I attended and it had been very much on my mid to get back to the site.
Unlike many, my appetite for walking only increases through the winter and having just returned from a month in Canada, I was expecting the site to have quietened over the winter, but it is a dramatic change.
I will keep checking in the hopes of more Hopes.

Thank you to all of the lovely people who made me so welcome on my first event.

Dale: ❤️

Glyn2: love you, love your comment xx

Dale: you’ll be very much missed on this site - your photos were legendary!! See you early next year🤞🥂xxx

I’m sorry to see you leave as well Doug. Joining OD and going on that first trip abroad with you to Majorca was for me life changing. I met some lovely people that have become firm friends☺️ See you soon😉

Sorry to see you leave Doug but thanks for all the invites, the walks and particularly trips abroad. Happy times in Pompeii, Sicily, Menorca, plus UK meets😀. All best wishes 👍

Dale: 🙂

M1960: thank you so much, you are correct 😄 I wish you well too

Site Admin: thanks for your comment, it’s been about 7/8 years. I’ve attended many invitations and put a fair few on myself but time to go now. Certainly a success and I treasure my 4 photo competition winning mugs 😂😂 thank you. I wish you and your OD site well.

What Lazlo, you're not dead 😂😂
Joking aside, please keep in touch and I hope that we can meet up again. And, even if you're not in OD then you'd be very welcome to join my Arran 2024 trip,
All the best, cheers, John.

Thanks for those lovely messages. It’s like hearing the things said at your own funeral without being dead 😂

M1960: Just post an invite and see who bites.

Dale: I'm sorry to see you go ☹, its certainly been a while you've been with us. I am glad the site worked for you. Its all about chnging lives for the better, so it sounds like success atleast 🙂👍

Bea (Pebbles): I loved the sea monster photo. I hope the people you've met on the site have been a bit better than that!

M1960: Same here...
I am staying on this site.....because I do enjoy speaking to our OD peeps on here....
I know things have changed ....I been on here now for over 10 years ....but I love the concept and the idea...Steve our admin, created this OD site .....in the first place.
It's us as members to make it more fun and interact with each other....
I hope the picture with me and the " seamonster" ....put some smiles on some faces 🤗

Awwww...Sorry to see you leaving...
We met twice on walks in North Yorkshire.
I always looked at your invites with envy....
All the work and planning you did put in...must have been very stressful sometimes.
Wishing you well....in your continuing walking adventures 🤗😉x

I'm staying on the site, primarily to keep an eye out for any suitable invites to ascend English or Welsh mountains. However, I only subscribe on an ad-hoc basis, when I have reason to (eg, in relation to an invite or if someone is mad enough to send me a message 😮).
Regarding the lack of invites on here, as I have said previously, I could lead a walk around Reigate (although I'm not particularly eager to do so) – if anyone is interested, please suggest a date and say how far you would like to walk (I'm retired, and available almost anywhen). Or, if anyone posts an invite for a walk fairly local to me and there is little or no interest, I'll come along to make up the numbers if I'm free.

Best wishes to you too, Dale.
I think we met only once - on Glyn's Hulme End walk in 2019. If I remember correctly, we were sitting next to each other in the pub at the end (there seems to be a recurring theme of pubs in what I'm writing on this thread, and I'm almost teetotal 😂).

Best wishes, Lazlo.
We met a couple of times in 2019, and I have happy memories of the Winster weekend, where I believe I pitched my tent next to yours. I don't think you were walking with us on the Friday evening though (watching a football match?), when I was very grateful to be able to follow Derek (HPM) back to the pub campsite in the dark (due to traffic issues, I hadn't had time to erect my tent before we set off) while the others decided to have another pub stop 😮 - we'd already had one and, to the best of my recollection, the walk was only about 7 miles in length!

Dear Lazio
Great to meet you a few times once in the Peaks another in Wales. Maybe your remember I rocked on the machine! So hope your still helping people with the maths. You are deffinately a Warrior. If your ever in N Wales area or Liverpool welcome to message me and investigate some culture somewhere. Fid

I’m saying bye bye too. Thank you for all the company and the very many outdoor ( and indoor escapades ) it’s been a blast but not like it used to be.
Steve (site admin) your idea for getting people together on invitations to allow friendships or romances to grow was perfect. This worked really well for me and I have much to thank this site for.
Lazlo, well what can I say? You have inspired, collected people together and spent so much of your time organising trips. If I can remember them all ?? I joined you in Cyprus, in Tuscany, on the North Wales Coastal path, St Oswalds Way and St Cuthberts way and many many day hikes. Thank you x

Your activities and your jollity have been much appreciated. Why things never quite picked up again after you -know-what has been a bit of a mystery despite many new members arriving, though just not taking part. Keep up the adventures and enjoy every sunrise. 🙂🌄

Steve

Loved having your witticism on posts and glad we met on the Hope saunter. Going to do one last post for your comments.🍺

Hi Doug,
I'll be sorry to see you go and a big thank you for all the trips that you've organised.
We've got each others contact details so I hope that we can keep in touch.
I'm hoping that come the Spring there will be more Invitations and activity on the site.
All the best, John.