(19th March 2013 - 20.5 miles) My Trailblazer guidebook promised me that this stage, Day 5, could be considered a rest day. You what? A 20.5 mile rest day? I wasn't convinced by that breezy assertion and just as well. Today would be one very long tramp and no, I would hardly feel rested and … Continue reading Coast to Coast: Day 5 – Shap to Kirkby Stephen
Long Distance Footpath
Coast to Coast: Day 4 – Patterdale to Shap
(18th March 2013 - 20 mile walk from Patterdale to Shap, off-route) If Day 3 of the Coast to Coast had been the hardest of my 12-day journey, Day 4 was the most disappointing and the only one during which I considered giving up and going home. Again (and not for the last time), I … Continue reading Coast to Coast: Day 4 – Patterdale to Shap
Coast to Coast: Day 3 – Stonethwaite to Patterdale
(17th March 2013 - 17 miles walk from Stonethwaite in Borrowdale to Patterdale) At seventeen miles and with two 2000ft mountain passes, Day 3 of the Coast to Coast was always going to be a challenge. I had walked the same route before but not in one day and not with such a heavy pack. … Continue reading Coast to Coast: Day 3 – Stonethwaite to Patterdale
Coast to Coast: Day 2 – Ennerdale Bridge to Stonethwaite
(16th March 2013 - 17 ½ miles walking from Ennerdale Bridge to Stonethwaite in Borrowdale) As you might have guessed, I don't rate day one of the C2C very highly. In the weeks prior to the walk, during the planning stage, it was day two that I had been looking forward to; day two on … Continue reading Coast to Coast: Day 2 – Ennerdale Bridge to Stonethwaite
Coast to Coast: Day 1 – St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge
(15th March 2013 - 14 ½ miles inc. 3 to and from my St Bees B&B.) My biggest fear for my first day on the Coast to Coast was that it would rain; and then rain and rain for the next eleven days. And, sure enough, on waking up at my St Bees B&B, yawning, scratching … Continue reading Coast to Coast: Day 1 – St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge
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