I want to encourage in others the ambition to devise with the aid of maps their own cross-country marathons and not be merely followers of other people’s routes.
Alfred Wainwright
Become a Patron!England’s Coast to Coast is roughly 192 miles from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, but I added another 50 miles peak bagging in the Lake District.
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I
Created by the illustrious fell walker Alfred Wainwright, the Coast to Coast is an unofficial and often unsigned path that passes through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, and the North York Moors.
The last time in Yorkshire, I ran.
Which pretty well describes my plan of no plan aside from ‘wild camping’ and catching a bus and two trains from Robin Hood’s Bay back to the airport and home mid-June.
My mantra…
To experience the countryside on fair days and never foul is to understand only half its story.
Melissa Harrison
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