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Three Forests Way

Loop Walk · Essex

1,500

XP

a 4-day route

Strenuous
97.53 km
Loop
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

723 m

Drop

723 m

Highest

122 m

Lowest

17 m

Walking time

about 20 h 41 min

A 4-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.

How the 97.4 km splits

Flat

78.6 km

Climbing

9.5 km

Descending

9.3 km

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Shares 0.3 km of path · meets at km 47.1, 47.8

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