The trip sees Jane carrying everything she needs on her back, including her tent, food, and a few key belongings.
She does all this despite wearing an eyepatch, and plans to keep up the tradition for as long as she can.
Jane’s love of long-distance trekking began around 40 years ago, when she trotted around the West Country.
Jane said: ‘My mother would look after my other ponies but she wasn’t that keen on looking after my Halfinger stallion, so I rode him down to Somerset to see a friend, which is about 300 miles.
‘It was a bit of a hard slog, but it was good.’
After that initial journey, she caught the taste for the open road, and travelled to visit friends near Fort Augustus, near Loch Ness, Highlands, every autumn since.
Her epic journey usually takes around seven weeks, depending on weather, and Jane uses it as a chance to pop in and say hi to people she has met over the years.
She sustains herself on porridge, oatcakes, and cheese, and doesn’t need much electricity as she has an old mobile phone with a battery that lasts six weeks.
The group’s lifestyle is fairly low maintenance, with Jane digging a hole for her bathroom and collecting water from a stream for days when she can’t get milk for her porridge.
During the foot and mouth crisis in 2001, she went by bicycle instead – so nothing can hold her back.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/07/80-y...-pony-trek-from-hexham-to-inverness-15218209/