🔴⛰️🚶🏻 Hike: Box Hill via Headley Heath [Extended]

⛰️ The final hike of the year! Let's end it with our classic, fast paced Box Hill extended in the Surrey Hills. A great scenic hike with a good workout over the hills. An outstanding area of woodland and chalk. Box Hill has long been famous as a destination for day-trippers from London.

🔴 HIKE:
📏 22km (13.6 miles)
🏔️ Elev. Gain: 666m
💓 Av. Pace: 5.3km/h

✊ Note: Active Muslims is equally about focusing on the actual activity, in this case, it is a paced walk/hike (and not a stroll), therefore it is advised to approach and attend these events with that mindset, intention and purpose.

🔄 Start/End: Dorking / Victoria Station

📍 Victoria Station: Opposite Platform 11

⌚Meet from 8:45am, the train departs at 9:11am [arrives 10:07am at Dorking. Return is estimated 4:17/43pm train depending on group pace]

🚉🚗 All regular walks/hikes are FREE and you are welcome to purchase your own ticket/make your way to the destination station. It is best to purchase tickets on the day as an open return ideally with a Network Rail card or with a group discount.
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🎟️ If you would like me to help purchase your group ticket (3+ must travel together). On the condition you aim to arrive before the platform is announced.

💳 TBC (xxx)
PLEASE MAKE SURE NO FEE IS CHARGED (Send as Friends & Family / otherwise ask for bank details).

⏳ Deadline: TBC
Confirm via below once you've made the payment with your Meetup Name:
📱 My WhatsApp.

ℹ️ I cannot issue refunds once I've purchased your ticket. May include online booking fee
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🚻 Victoria, on train, Dorking (only single for ladies so avoid/delay) & near the start only.
🧎 Prayer: If you are praying, please have/keep wudu (make it within other breaks) and be prepared to join at short notice.
🎒 What to bring: appropriate clothing/shoes, packed lunch, water bottle (1.5-2L) & snacks to keep you going.
👕 Advisable to have layers.
🥾 Hiking boots recommended.
🧦 Hiking socks/double socks advised (reduces chance of blisters)
🔦 Headlight (winter)
📱 Fully charged mobile + portable charger
🔔 Emergency Whistle

🗂️ When there is a waiting list, priority is given by attendance records / new joiners.
📊 [why it matters]

⛑️ Disclaimer: You are solely responsible for your own safety on these events and have the fitness level required for it. That you do not require special attention, medication or additional care. You are also responsible for your belonging at all times.

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🚦 Walk/Hike Levels:
🟢 Easy
🟡 Average
🟠 Moderate
🔴 Challenging
⚫ Very Challenging

ℹ️ The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is one of 46 nationally protected landscapes in the UK, having equal landscape status and protection to a national park. The hills stretch across a quarter of the county of Surrey, from the chalk North Downs that run from Farnham in the west above Guildford, Dorking and Reigate, to Oxted in the east. The hills embrace an amazing variety of countryside, from the rolling chalk downs of yew and box woodland and flower rich grasslands, to the acid heaths and woodland of the Greensand Hills that rise to form the highest point in south east England at Leith Hill