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Topic: C2C: Journals and Diaries
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leki rulz
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posted 26 November 2005 06:33
  
Here are just some of the C2C journal/diaries on the web for those of you who are researching the C2C.Some are very comprehensive. Some are funny. Some are touching. All are about the C2C. Enjoy! ****** C2C: Bill George (a retired CEO reduced to humility by the C2C. This one made me cry.) http://www.triangle.com/outdoors/tio/story/1488930p-7635560c.html C2C: Carl Hieron's diary (very detailed) http://hierons.tripod.com/walkingcleveland/id9.html C2C: The Walking Englishman's walk http://www.walkingenglishman.com/coast2coast.htm C2C: Holly and Bruce's Walk http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczpda/phpl.cgi?holctc.html C2C: Phil Andrew's walk http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczpda/phpl.cgi?ctc.html C2C: Ian Fisk's walk (comprehensive) http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Efiski/c2c/c2c01.html C2C: ruby3dirwalk http://www.ruby3.dircon.co.uk/Coast%20to%20Coast%20Photos/Coast%20to%20Coast%20 pages/walk1.html C2C Peter Chatfield's walk (good) http://www.pchatfield.freeserve.co.uk/c2c/diary.htm C2C: John Daly's walk ( a 70 year old) http://www.daly.co.uk/john/walks/coast_to_coast.html C2C: lehighwalk (great photos) http://www.lehigh.edu/~wwt1/C2C/c2c.html C2C: Alan and mates walk http://www.geocities.com/getyer/c2cpage.html C2C Dave & Claire's walk http://davetgerrard.members.beeb.net/c2c_index.html C2C: Kerry and Nancy Connell's walk (Australians) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kconnell/ C2C: Jill Green's walk http://www.wwwalker.btinternet.co.uk/reports/700c2c.htm C2C: George Todd's diary (high routes) http://www.gtleisure.co.uk/walks/cc92/ccwalka.htm C2C Cyberhiker's lone walk with pictures http://www.cyberhiker.co.uk/CTC/CTCINDEX.htm C2C: East to West Walk: brief but useful http://www.calwalkers.com/C2C.html C2C: Four friend's Coast to Coast walk http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2864/Diary.htm C2C: Steve Kemper - Blisters & Ale (beautifully written) http://www.stevekemper.net/work8.htm C2C: Guy Wilson's site: huge, plus waypoints http://www.guy-wilson.co.uk/ C2C: Phil Mortiboy's walk http://www.mortiboy.co.uk/ctoc/coastday5.htm C2C: Peter Hessler: Walking across England (In this one I learned the meaning of the lovely word: roak.) http://www.britannia.com/BritHeritage/10daywalk.html C2C: 3 Americans: Part 1: Week 9 - (got lost@ Black Sail) http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/kaydee/archives/000638.html C2C: 3 Americans: Part 2: Week 10 - (huge) http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/kaydee/archives/000639.html C2C: Ian's Ashworth's Diary http://ianashy.club.fr/coast-to-coast.htm C2C: John Gurnhill's photos http://www.geocities.com/john_gurnhill/index.html C2C: Tim (Copsey) and Tim's (Reeves) diary http://www.timandtim.co.uk/new/frames.htm C2C: Gordon Laing's 'gourmet' guide http://www.glnow.com/photos/coast/coast2coast.htm C2C: Chris Parsons Online: Hill Walking http://cjparsons.com/walking/coast2coast1.html C2C: Ian Smith's walk (to promote cancer awareness) http://www.coast2002coast.net/c2cjournal.html C2C: Nigel's Diary:
http://beetrootspiders.netfirms.com/nigelsc2cdiary.html [This message has been edited by leki rulz (edited 30 March 2006).] IP: Logged |
MrBlister
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posted 26 November 2005 14:57
Thanks Leki - I enjoy reading other people's accounts of the walk, and I hadn't found some of the ones on your list. IP: Logged |
norman walker
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posted 26 November 2005 16:25
A very good contribution.IP: Logged |
Trekker
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posted 27 November 2005 06:09
Thanks Leki!
Very Nice!IP: Logged |
Countryfile
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posted 28 November 2005 00:33
Cheers,
Great to read these, sorta gets you in the mood. Wish more people would post their experiences on here though instead of all over the webb.IP: Logged |
Ozzie M & H
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posted 30 November 2005 09:48
Very interesting Leki - we wonder how you manage to dredge up such a great number of informative sites.[This message has been edited by Ozzie M & H (edited 30 November 2005).] IP: Logged |
leki rulz
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posted 01 December 2005 03:07
I just Google them, Ozzie. Often just throwing in a specific keyword like 'St Bee's' helps: rather than the more generic terms like C2C diary. I actually wondered if you might have been the Aussies in the journal list above...? Regardless: how was your trip this time? Did you do different things or follow a similar route to last year's? What was better about the walk the second time? Would you go a third time? (Sorry: I'm nosey!)  IP: Logged |
widgeon
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posted 01 December 2005 23:08
Leki: So glad you like to be nosy - just the questions I would like answered.IP: Logged |
Ozzie M & H
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posted 01 December 2005 23:21
Hi Leki or should we say G'day or How yer goin' or whateverWe don't think being interested can be interpreted as being nosy! We found the second time on the C2C just as interesting as the first. Conditions were quite different on many days (not nearly as wet and no gale force winds)and we found we had more time to look at surroundings the second time round. This year we still got lost but at least we strayed in different places and not as severely as in 2004. We did take a somewhat different route from last year - we took three days from Patterdale to Kirkby Stephen (Patterdale to Bampton, Bampton to Orton and Orton to Kirkby Stephen) and found this to be a great alternative - even though one of our only two wet days was from Orton to Kirkby Stephen.We also went over the top old-lead-mines route to Reeth. We found this quite a tiring day and the books (especially Stedman whose maths did not quite add when you compared his total time to the total of the sections) did not prepare us very well. It was, however, fascinating. We would not say it was better than the Swale route but different - both were great! We are in fact planning to walk a third time - in 2007. Our son, who is based in London, expressed an interest in doing such a walk - he has walked in Kashmir and Nepal -and we jumped at the chance. We only hope that our old bones do not give up on us in the meantime. If we can now be nosy - were you the Aussies who stayed at Newlands House? IP: Logged |
leki rulz
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posted 03 December 2005 07:02
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Originally posted by Ozzie M & H:
If we can now be nosy - were you the Aussies who stayed at Newlands House?
Tracking us, uh, Ozzie?  Thanks for the second time around clarification. It's clear to me -- and from another little thing that Oldun said after his walk -- (Where ARE you Oldun? Are you well? Happy? Walking? I miss you!) -- that you are so busy the first time round, watching the map, watching your feet, worrying that you didn't forget your walking pole at the last stop, etc -- that you actually don't stop enough the first time you do the walk. You literally don't lift your head, look around, breathe in every step. Which, I think I was aware was potentially a problem the first time, and not knowing the route, or our limitations well enough meant that, even tho' we took a rest day, walked sensibly, etc, I still felt at the end we'd gone too fast: that we need to stop more enroute, during each day -- and smell the metaphorical roses, so to speak. Which is why some of us feel the need to do the C2C at least twice. To relax and enjoy it. As for Newlands: some of our group were at Newlands. We weren't. But we were just down the road. And we ate at The Jet Miners Inn that night in Great Broughton and vote it the BEST Pub Food on the C2C by far. And cheap! 2 courses for �5.95! The Yorkshire pudding was exceptional. As were the stuffed mushrooms entree. The place was packed and the service was exceptional. Well done, Jet Miners Inn. IP: Logged |
Kite21
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posted 03 December 2005 07:26
Excellent thread everyone. Many thanks.It's all great reading for a potential first timer! [This message has been edited by Kite21 (edited 28 December 2005).] IP: Logged |
Kite21
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posted 23 December 2005 20:32
I'm setting off on 26 June.Gulp. Wish me luck. IP: Logged |
barney44
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posted 24 December 2005 23:25
Kite21
I'm setting off on 21st June, just ahead of you. If I have any major dramas (like getting lost, etc) I'll try and get a posting on this website for you before you head off.
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Kite21
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posted 28 December 2005 22:30
All the best, Barney.You'll be well ahead of me. You'll be celebrating while I'm still doing the walk!! Thanks for the offer. I'll be grateful for any help I can get!! Hahaha. Are you taking GPS? Kite IP: Logged |
barney44
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posted 28 December 2005 23:45
No, just my trusty compass, strip maps and guide book.
I am having a rest day in Richmond. If you are powering straight through, then you may finish close to my date of 4th July (Tuesday). I'm not a fast walker!
Cheers
Barney
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Onslow
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posted 04 January 2006 21:46
Will be doing the C2C on September 4. Already booked it. Nice to find some more sites to read up on.Happy Holidays to all IP: Logged |
leki rulz
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posted 29 March 2006 00:44
Bumped for Ernie.Hope this bump helps, Ernie! (Last time I looked the first diary (of the CEO, which tore my heart out it was so wrenching, had disappeared off the net. If any one took a copy I would really appreciate it.) Wonderful walking! IP: Logged |
Ernest Smith
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posted 29 March 2006 13:37
hi Leki,
wow! thanks alot i thought i
was not going to see these again, ihope to get them read before they dissapear again
thanks alot
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Tom de Sherwood
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posted 29 March 2006 16:19
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tomals/index8.html This was my own account when I did the walk for a second time in 2004. There are lots of phots and other information on other pages IP: Logged |
Trekker
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posted 29 March 2006 21:16
Hi Tom,Wow... Is my wife mad at you! She ascribes a large portion of the blame for my revived obsession to do another crossing to your site  As for myself, I have to thank you for such a wonderful site! Your photos make me want to don my boots, grab my pack and head for the hills. Speaking of photos... Thanks for the use of great one of the Keld YHA on the related post! Thanks again,
Trekker
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leki rulz
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posted 30 March 2006 10:58
Thanks, Tom, for yours. You are a darling. Your journal is up there with the best and among the best for photos.Also, it is one of the few Mr Leki read before setting out. As he remembers it (and he still sprouts off to anyone about reading it, and the walk!) you and he were the sensible ones! -- as in his memory you ate steak and ale pie or curry non-stop from west to east. You didn't. He did. He misremembers. (As usual.) IP: Logged |
LoneWalker
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posted 31 March 2006 07:50
Leki, would you mind if I copied all the links you so carefully collected and placed them on my website?
I'm trying to bring together as many journals and diaries as possible into a single locationCheers IP: Logged |
leki rulz
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posted 01 April 2006 06:29
Oh, go for it, LoneWalker -- that's a great idea. Those links would be really useful put in a readily accessible place. And they're just links. No one owns copyright to links so you can do that with ease, I imagine. Tho' you're going to have to check them occasionnaly, I suppose, to make sure they are still 'live', etc. All the best with it. That's a great idea. IP: Logged |
LoneWalker
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posted 01 April 2006 14:01
Okay, I have copied all the links from the post above and Tom's too (hope you don't mind Tom) and added them to a "Links" page on www.walkingplaces.co.uk, the actual link being http://www.walkingplaces.co.uk/links.htm I have also created a space for journals on the site, so if you want to have your diary or account hosted on the site then please drop me a line. Cheers
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K
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posted 18 June 2006 04:38
LoneWalker,Just read your diary (as far as it goes so far), and it is excellent. Congrats on your personal progress with walking as well as your helpful website... Ken IP: Logged |
LoneWalker
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posted 05 August 2006 12:39
Just thought I would update this link with some new journals that have been added to the Walking Places web site over recent weeks.Kev and Liz - Walking, climbing and Coast to Coast Journal
http://www.kevanliz.walkingplaces.co.uk/c2c.htm Journeyman - Coast to Coast Journal
http://www.journeyman.walkingplaces.co.uk/c2c.htm Ashley Heeley - Coast to Coast Journal
http://www.ashleyheeley.walkingplaces.co.uk/c2cintro.htm Ian Savage - Coast to Coast Blog - about to start 8th August - with daily updates
http://www.thesavages.walkingplaces.co.uk/c2citin.htm Gregg Neilson - Coast to Coast and Dales Way journals - coming soon!
http://www.gregginsonoma.walkingplaces.co.uk/ Roger Goadby - Coast to Coast Journal
http://www.walkingplaces.co.uk/homepages/journals/rogerg/c2c_2002.htm Our very own Countryfile - Coast to Coast journal
http://www.walkingplaces.co.uk/homepages/journals/countryfile/c2c_2006.htm Don't forget, for those finishing the C2C, if you want to publish your journal, drop me a line. Cheers
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landryrk
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posted 09 September 2006 21:40
Bump to the top! Bookmark this one before the forum closes! Let's hope that Lonewalker can save us.IP: Logged |
Kite21
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posted 09 September 2006 21:55
This thread is one of the reasons why this is a quality website.Strangers giving each other help, advice and encouragement. Almost brings a tear to your eye. IP: Logged |
LoneWalker
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posted 10 September 2006 09:48
Some new journals to add to that list now as well....Deborah & Gwen - mother and daughter 2006 crossing
http://www.deborahandgwen.walkingplaces.co.uk/ James Stewart & Steve Brown - C2C journal (2006), Live daily updates until mid-september
http://www.stewart-brown.walkingplaces.co.uk/ Coming soon - Fab 4 on the Pennine Way, due in a few days following QA etc IP: Logged |
rockwalker
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posted 21 November 2006 09:25
hi leki hows things looking at all these web sites made me think of putting down a few bits 'n pieces so if you want to give mine a shuffty you can find it under. the adventures of chuggster.on jeeves or google hope you all all still striding out on them thar 'ills best regards martyn [This message has been edited by rockwalker (edited 21 November 2006).] IP: Logged |
Oldun
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posted 21 November 2006 14:14
It's clear to me -- and from another little thing that Oldun said after his walk -- (Where ARE you Oldun? Are you well? Happy? Walking? I miss you!) -- that you are so busy the first time round, watching the map, watching your feet, worrying that you didn't forget your walking pole at the last stop, etc -- that you actually don't stop enough the first time you do the walk.Hullo Leki. I see that you are still a prolific writer. Since doing the C2C I have wandered around the Cape of South Africa following the whales; done a few walks in my area (Switzerland); wandered around middle England, and have done the West Highland Way. Now planning for the Cleveland Way next Spring. I use the word �wandering� specifically, as I am now enjoying walking, rather than trying to start like a bomb and go eyeballs out, wondering if I am going to beat a record or lose my way. More often than not I succeed in losing my way, no matter how well I plan things. But the enjoyment now is in trying to find out where the hell I am, and then finding my way across country to my destination; sometimes coming upon the destination from the most unexpected places, or seeing my destination from the most inaccessible vantage point. Getting my gear ready now for winter walking and snowshoeing in the Jura. When it snows it is beautiful up there with a lot of small wild life. Seems to be a problem here now, as global warming has driven the wolves and bears back to Switzerland; but I hope, not as far as the Jura.
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posted 29 November 2006 20:51
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Originally posted by leki rulz:
Here are just some of the C2C journal/diaries on the web for those of you who are researching the C2C.Some are very comprehensive. Some are funny. Some are touching. All are about the C2C. Enjoy! ****** C2C: Bill George (a retired CEO reduced to humility by the C2C. This one made me cry.) http://www.triangle.com/outdoors/tio/story/1488930p-7635560c.html C2C: Carl Hieron's diary (very detailed) http://hierons.tripod.com/walkingcleveland/id9.html C2C: The Walking Englishman's walk http://www.walkingenglishman.com/coast2coast.htm C2C: Holly and Bruce's Walk http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczpda/phpl.cgi?holctc.html C2C: Phil Andrew's walk http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczpda/phpl.cgi?ctc.html C2C: Ian Fisk's walk (comprehensive) http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Efiski/c2c/c2c01.html C2C: ruby3dirwalk http://www.ruby3.dircon.co.uk/Coast%20to%20Coast%20Photos/Coast%20to%20Coast%20 pages/walk1.html C2C Peter Chatfield's walk (good) http://www.pchatfield.freeserve.co.uk/c2c/diary.htm C2C: John Daly's walk ( a 70 year old) http://www.daly.co.uk/john/walks/coast_to_coast.html C2C: lehighwalk (great photos) http://www.lehigh.edu/~wwt1/C2C/c2c.html C2C: Alan and mates walk http://www.geocities.com/getyer/c2cpage.html C2C Dave & Claire's walk http://davetgerrard.members.beeb.net/c2c_index.html C2C: Kerry and Nancy Connell's walk (Australians) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kconnell/ C2C: Jill Green's walk http://www.wwwalker.btinternet.co.uk/reports/700c2c.htm C2C: George Todd's diary (high routes) http://www.gtleisure.co.uk/walks/cc92/ccwalka.htm C2C Cyberhiker's lone walk with pictures http://www.cyberhiker.co.uk/CTC/CTCINDEX.htm C2C: East to West Walk: brief but useful http://www.calwalkers.com/C2C.html C2C: Four friend's Coast to Coast walk http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2864/Diary.htm C2C: Steve Kemper - Blisters & Ale (beautifully written) http://www.stevekemper.net/work8.htm C2C: Guy Wilson's site: huge, plus waypoints http://www.guy-wilson.co.uk/ C2C: Phil Mortiboy's walk http://www.mortiboy.co.uk/ctoc/coastday5.htm C2C: Peter Hessler: Walking across England (In this one I learned the meaning of the lovely word: roak.) http://www.britannia.com/BritHeritage/10daywalk.html C2C: 3 Americans: Part 1: Week 9 - (got lost@ Black Sail) http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/kaydee/archives/000638.html C2C: 3 Americans: Part 2: Week 10 - (huge) http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/kaydee/archives/000639.html C2C: Ian's Ashworth's Diary http://ianashy.club.fr/coast-to-coast.htm C2C: John Gurnhill's photos http://www.geocities.com/john_gurnhill/index.html C2C: Tim (Copsey) and Tim's (Reeves) diary http://www.timandtim.co.uk/new/frames.htm C2C: Gordon Laing's 'gourmet' guide http://www.glnow.com/photos/coast/coast2coast.htm C2C: Chris Parsons Online: Hill Walking http://cjparsons.com/walking/coast2coast1.html C2C: Ian Smith's walk (to promote cancer awareness) http://www.coast2002coast.net/c2cjournal.html C2C: Nigel's Diary:
http://beetrootspiders.netfirms.com/nigelsc2cdiary.html [This message has been edited by leki rulz (edited 30 March 2006).]
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posted 29 November 2006 21:00
[QUOTE]Originally posted by leki rulz:
[B]Here are just some of the C2C journal/diaries on the web for those of you who are researching the C2C.You may be interested to include our web site (Gail & Brian's Photo Diary)in your list :- www.byron.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
The reason I originally wrote it was because of our difficulty in finding useful photo sites when we were researching the walk ourselves. We have had excellent feedback over the last 12 months and was surprised at the omission from your list of 20+ sites.
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