Welcome to our Coast to Coast Walk blog

Please join us in sponsorship as we walk across England in support of the Yes to Life charity. We are a mother (Jo) and daughter(Imogen), partner David and friend Vidya. We will be taking out our walking boots and traversing the hilly terrain of the English Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, and North York Moors on the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk. This walk is being undertaken in loving memory of Bryony Daly who passed away from cancer in 2004 aged 23 yrs. Her death was a tragedy and Yes to Life was founded to provide much needed support and information to cancer sufferers who have a right to know what their options for alternative care are. We will set out on our epic journey on June 7th, 2010 and hopefully find ourselves on the opposite coast 2 weeks later. Please support us by sponsoring the miles we will walk, the blisters we will get, the rain we will endure and the falling into bed that we will do. As we count the miles, it will be great to know that each new mile brings a new pound, dollar or euro to such a worthy cause! Please click on the link below to learn more about the walk:
www.wainwright.org.uk/coasttocoast.html

The Route

Wainwrights Coast to Coast Walk

This classic long distance walk was devised by Alfred Wainwright -famous British fell walker - in 1972. It is a classic and quite rightly has become one of the most popular long distance walks in the British isles. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, the walk has distinct starting and finishing points as it starts on the west coast of Northern England and finishes on the east coast of Northern England. Hence the obvious title 'Coast to Coast'. Secondly, the walk makes its way through three of the finest national parks in the country, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. All three parks are distinctly different. The Lake District is rocky with the highest hills and largest lakes in England. The Yorkshire Dales are covered in a mixture of limestone and gritstone with challenging hills of its own albeit on the scale of the Lake District. The North York Moors are predominantly heather moorland with rolling hills with dales of lush greenery.

The Coast to Coast is about 190 miles long depending on the variations chosen on some of the legs. We will be taking 15 days, starting in St Bees on June 7th and ending up in Robin's Hood Bay on June 22nd. Below is the list of days, miles and places we will be visiting:


June 7th St. Bees to Ennerdale Bridge 
June 8th Ennerdale Bridge to Ennerdale YHA (short day to climatise)
June 9th Ennerdale YHA to Stonethwaite
June 10th Stonethwaite to Grasmere
June 11thGrasmere to Patterdale
June 12th Patterdale to Shap
June 13th Shap to Kirby Stephen
June 14th Kirby Stephen to Keld
June 15th Keld to Reeth
June 16th Reeth to Richmond
June 17th Richmond to Danby Whiske
June 18th Danby Whiske to Ingleby Arnecliffe
June 19th Ingleby Arncliffe to Blakey Ridge
June 20th Blakey Ridge to Grosemont
June 21st (Summer Solstice) Grosemont to Littlebeck
June 22nd Littlebeck to ROBIN"S HOOD BAY FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







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