{"id":4202,"date":"2025-07-29T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:01:37","slug":"the-buzzard-way-first-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/the-buzzard-way-first-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buzzard Way: First completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this year I launched The Buzzard Way, my own 91 mile long distance trail around the South Wales Valleys taking in some of the best walking and ridgeways in the area. I completed the route over a number of months, with some full day hikes and some shorter walks to complete every step and <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/the-buzzard-way\/\">make a full route and video series available<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Buzzard Way has now been walked as intended, as a 5 day through-hike by David Morgan, a very experienced and well travelled long-distance walker. He recorded his experience in a wonderful 30 minute video on his YouTube channel, embedded below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge thanks to David for not only walking the trail, but also for making such a lovely video covering his experience of it. Do enjoy the video below and be sure to visit his channel to see his other walks in South Wales and beyond for inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_44748\"  width=\"1290\" height=\"725\"  data-origwidth=\"1290\" data-origheight=\"725\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p3Rq7oA_Rr0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/p3Rq7oA_Rr0\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buzzard Way has been completed for the first time, will anyone else take up the challenge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[287,417,313],"tags":[112,113,200,426,237,239],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog","category-the-buzzard-way","category-youtube","tag-hiking","tag-hill-walking","tag-south-wales","tag-the-buzzard-way","tag-welsh-hills","tag-welsh-valleys"],"blocksy_meta":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalkingkev.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}