Iain,
How are the training walks going? I'm counting the days, just 3 months to go now. I really can't wait!
Robbie

The waiting and anticipation is almost agonising isn't it! But enjoy the waiting. It is infinitely preferable to that awful realisation that you've done it and it's in the past!

The only cure - planning another trail...

Tom, I guess your're right. If all goes well on the PW I'm already starting to look at doing Glyndwr's Way in 2008. At 135 miles it should satisfy the requirement of a decent walk and being able to get a week's pass from she who wants to go on a holiday were there's sun.
Robbie

Hi Robbie, I've been off line for quite a while recently as things have been hectic at work and at home. I'm having trouble finding the time I wanted to for training walks so I generally only manage to get out on either Saturdays or Sundays rather than two days together. I try to bridge the gaps by getting on my cross trainer at home with my boots and rucksack on, my wife laughs herself to death !

I too, am impatient for everything to get started. I think I have been through the maps and read the books so often now that I could begin reciting them. I even bought an aerial photograph DVD of northern England and mapped out most of the route on it until I decided I was getting a bit too carried away. Interesting stats on the distances and the heights gained and lost however.

I've not considered about how I feel after having finished, I just want to get get going and worry about afterwards, afterwards.

Regards (to all)

Hi Iain,
Yes, it is getting a bit of an obsession at the moment!
I drove over the Snake Pass yesterday (work related), I sincerely hope the weather is a little better in April, visibility down to not very much!
Robbie

Robbie, Best make it clear to "she who wants to go on a holiday where there's sun" that if you did you would both be in grave danger of getting skin cancer.

Iain,
I'm walking the way around the same time, and it would be good to have a pint with a fellow sufferer.....

Itinery (Booked)
29 April - Crowden, White House
30 April - Standedge, Wellcroft House
1 May - Blackshaw Head - Badgerfields
2 May - Earby, YHA
3 May - Malham, YHA
4 May - Horton, Golden Lion
5 May - Hawes, YHA
6 May - Keld, Keld Lodge
7 May - Bowes, The Ancient Unicorn
8 May - Langdon Beck, YHA
9 May - Dufton, YHA
10 May - Alston, YHA
11 May - Greenhead, YHA
12 May - Twice Brewed, YHA
13 May - Bellingham, Lyndale
14 May - Bryness, YHA
15 May - Kirk Yetholm, SYHA

With all the Youth Hostels it looks as though most of my pack will be ear plugs

I'm due at Malham YH on the 3rd - I think!

"Best make it clear to "she who wants to go on a holiday where there's sun" that if you did you would both be in grave danger of getting skin cancer."
That's why I sit in the shade, more often than not somewhere near a bar planning my next venture without her!!
Robbie

Five of the hostels in your list closed for good last year, didn't they...?