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Cheshire Hike has seen Scouts, Explorers, Guides and Rangers walk between 30km and 60km in just two days for 57 years. The 2025 event will take place between 27th-28th September, and will see 850 Scouts and Guides within three age categories will walk these distances in a weekend, camping at basecamp overnight.

Three routes, two days, one finish.

Cheshire Hike is an annual event run by Cheshire Scouts, for Scouts and Guides in Cheshire between the ages of 10½ and 17.

Across two days, three age categories and four possible team sizes and camping at a basecamp overnight, Scouts and Guides walk between 30km and 60km between start and finish locations that are revealed just two weeks before the event.

The 2025 event is being held this weekend. Follow us on social media to watch it as it happens.

If you’re volunteering at one of our locations – thank you. 250+ volunteers on the ground make an event like this happen.

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Whether you've volunteered before or it's your first time, we're looking for leaders across the County for all kinds of roles.

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Watch Cheshire Hike 2025

Watch the 57th Cheshire Hike as it happened. 720 Scouts & Guides, 27,000km walked, 40 million steps taken, 300 adult volunteers.

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