Where is Paddy Dillon in 2025?

Paddy Dillon walks hard for a living and is always juggling a variety of projects. His work can take him anywhere, and at any time of the year. Next destination - Everywhere!

Treks and Trails - Paddy enjoyed some interesting trips during 2024. Parts of the Pennine Way were walked and checked early and late in the year. Scotland's Great Glen Way and the Isle of Arran have been visited this year. Six weeks during the summer were spent trekking end to end through the French Alps, focussing on the GR5 trail and its variants. Everything was delivered so that a new edition of the GR5 guidebook could be published in 2025.

Guidebook projects - Paddy updated several of his guidebooks throughout 2024 and this continues to be the case into 2025. Reprints and new editions of guidebooks were being prepared for publication almost every month in the first half of 2025. A new edition of the Wales Coast Path was published, based on route research done towards the end of 2024. During the summer of 2025, Paddy worked on a new edition of the South West Coast Path guidebook, walking the entire trail for the fifth time. Note that a film was also released during the summer of 2025 - The Salt Path - where Paddy's guidebook featured regularly throughout as a prop!

Out and About - Paddy finds the time to visit all sorts of odd places for short periods throughout the year, with visits to places such as Ilkley Moor, the South Pennines, Cannock Chase, Vale of Eden and a series of outdoor heritage sites, including Beamish and Ironbridge.

The English Lake District - The Lake District is on Paddy's doorstep and is visited regularly throughout the year to keep abreast of route changes and other developments, and because it is one of the finest places anyone could ever wish to walk! Paddy's guidebook to the long-distance Cumbria Way starts in his home town of Ulverston. He is currently helping to overhaul the waymarking of the trail and he will be giving a talk about it on Hallowe'en.