Anyone done Coast to Coast / Pennine Way?
Discussion
I'm looking at doing one of these two walks over the next few weeks and was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share.
I've got a maximum of 18 days to do it, so Coast to Coast would be easy whilst Pennine Way would be more of a challenge. I'm a fit bloke and would be wild camping the whole way, with parcels of food posted to destinations 2 days ahead.
Anyone been up on the moors recently? What's the ground like? My primary worry with the Pennine Way will be the peat bogs that will sap my miles per hour, whereas on the C2C apparently it isn't much of an issue.
Thanks!
I've got a maximum of 18 days to do it, so Coast to Coast would be easy whilst Pennine Way would be more of a challenge. I'm a fit bloke and would be wild camping the whole way, with parcels of food posted to destinations 2 days ahead.
Anyone been up on the moors recently? What's the ground like? My primary worry with the Pennine Way will be the peat bogs that will sap my miles per hour, whereas on the C2C apparently it isn't much of an issue.
Thanks!
Driving over the moors last week, my 2p would be prepared. From clear sky and red hot to black cloud and peeing it down in far less than the 0 to 60 time of a Dacia Sandero.
(Driving an MGF and commenting. Ooh looks a bit dark in the sky; to oh this rain is Ok; to oh b0ll0cks, i'm soaked in the space of 5 minutes).
(Driving an MGF and commenting. Ooh looks a bit dark in the sky; to oh this rain is Ok; to oh b0ll0cks, i'm soaked in the space of 5 minutes).
Did both, PW 1976, C2C 1977, oohhh, that's a long time ago isn't it!
PW was 15 days and C2C 10, but we hostelled/ B&Bd which made it easier, we were 18/19 and fit, recovery time was quick, our kit was very basic and cheap, we didn't have fleeces, Gortex hadn't been invented.
Those schedules meant max day length of 32 miles over the Cheviots as there's nowhere to stay on the tops, but if you camp it's not a problem. Not sure though, these days, if you can get away with camping just anywhere, it was much quieter then, the PW hadn't been discovered by the masses, I think it became like a motorway in thye years after we did it but may have quietened down again now it's easier to go to the Alps/Himalayas. We also did 27 from Keld to Langdon Beck.
C2C had 3x25 miles days from Richmond to the coast for the same reason, without going miles off the route there wasn't anywhere to stay. Richmond, Ingleby, Westerdale, Wheeldale, RHB.
PW is more likely to me a bog fest, C2C doesn't have any boggy bits iirc. The first half of the C2C is brilliant, second half less so, although because we regularly did the NYM was why we found it like that.
We used to pay about £4 for B&B& evening meal, can't remember how much the hostels were, probably £1.50 or £2. Pennine Way cost about £35 for the whole 2 weeks!
HTH.
Enjoy!
PW was 15 days and C2C 10, but we hostelled/ B&Bd which made it easier, we were 18/19 and fit, recovery time was quick, our kit was very basic and cheap, we didn't have fleeces, Gortex hadn't been invented.
Those schedules meant max day length of 32 miles over the Cheviots as there's nowhere to stay on the tops, but if you camp it's not a problem. Not sure though, these days, if you can get away with camping just anywhere, it was much quieter then, the PW hadn't been discovered by the masses, I think it became like a motorway in thye years after we did it but may have quietened down again now it's easier to go to the Alps/Himalayas. We also did 27 from Keld to Langdon Beck.
C2C had 3x25 miles days from Richmond to the coast for the same reason, without going miles off the route there wasn't anywhere to stay. Richmond, Ingleby, Westerdale, Wheeldale, RHB.
PW is more likely to me a bog fest, C2C doesn't have any boggy bits iirc. The first half of the C2C is brilliant, second half less so, although because we regularly did the NYM was why we found it like that.
We used to pay about £4 for B&B& evening meal, can't remember how much the hostels were, probably £1.50 or £2. Pennine Way cost about £35 for the whole 2 weeks!
HTH.
Enjoy!
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