Since starting this project we have become Great Outdoors Ambassadors, a great outdoor shop in Dublin who help us order and organise our gear!
We are proud members of, and trainers with Leave No Trace Ireland, an outdoor ethics programme who promote responsible outdoor recreation through education, research and partnerships. 

Podcasts

Over the years we’ve got to talk about our projects on different podcasts - some of which we’ve linked below!

• The Adventure Mindset Podcast: Season 1 Episode 36 with Tough Soles
  This week we introduce you to Ellie & Carl from “Tough Soles” who in 2017, handed back their apartment keys, shouldered some (too-heavy) bags, and set out to walk every National Way-marked Trail in Ireland. This list of trails takes is over 4,000km of trails. No adventure project is ever linear, and so what started off as a 6 month project twisted and turned to include fractured feet, running out of money, and eventually completing them all in July 2019.
  - February 2023
  

• The Talking Walking Podcast: Tough Soles Talking Walking
  “Tough Soles“, aka Ellie Berry and Carl Lange, set themselves a challenge to walk and make video recordings of each of the 42 national way marked trails in Ireland. This adventure was in part to better understand their home country, and grew to be an awareness-raising project encouraging others to discover the trails and the countryside through which they pass. One marvels at Ellie’s and Carl’s determination and discipline.  Andrew Stuck would have loved to have accompanied them on the trails as their infectious enthusiasm and sheer joy spills through in this interview, that we recorded on Zoom. Andrew was also intrigued to establish how this mammoth walking adventure might have impacted on their relationship.
  - April 2022
  

• The Get Ireland Walking Podcast: Tough Soles
  Ellie and Carl have walked every National Waymarked Trail in Ireland as part of their Tough Soles project. They join Dylan on the Get Ireland Walking Podcast to talk about their 4000km journey, new projects and much more
  - August 2021
  

• The Hiiker Podcast: Season 1 Episode 9 with Tough Soles
  Ellie and Carl (a.k.a. Tough Soles) are a couple from Ireland that decided one day to hike every waymarked trail in Ireland. While this number tends to change each year (trails closing, opening and changing in distance) they completed over 4,000km of Hiking. In addition, they only used public transport to get to each trail head!

  This impressive feat has yet to be repeated and they are the first to do it! The trails hiked include: The Wicklow Way, The Slieve Bloom Way, The Kerry Way, and The Miners way and Historical Trail
  - August 2021
  

• The Outdoors Station: Episode 477 - Tough Soles 4,000km around Ireland
  There are 42 trails within Ireland, with a combined distance of around 4,000km. So far they’ve walked 35 trails, and over 3,000km. You’ll hear how they sacrificed their home comforts, sold everything to hit the road and walk every National Trail in the Republic of Ireland.

  It started off as a 6 months project. They originally started at haste but slowly they became aware that to rush was to miss the finer pleasures of their adventure. And so they now find themselves 18 months later, with only 7 more trails to go and a huge amount of experience under their belt and 100’s of beautiful memories of their country in their back pocket. I managed to catch up with them while they are both recuperating from a chest infection to hear the full story.
  - September 2018