Thursday, 28 July 2011

Coast to Coast backwards

Back from updating Trailblazer's Coast to Coast guidebook. This will be the 5th edition. I did the 200 mile hike backwards. I didn't actually walk backwards but did the reverse to what everyone else does by walking from Robin Hood's Bay to St Bees. As everyone else tackling the walk is heading east I found myself having to say a lot of hellos around about lunchtime every day.

Weather was lousy but camped anyway. Tried to avoid the organised campsites and - even worse - the hideous caravan parks and found some great wild camp spots instead. Angle Tarn and Ennerdale Water in the Lakes were highlights.

Lowlight was a night with the lowlifes in Shap who turned the tiny campsite into an all night rave venue. I ended up packing up at three in the morning and re-pitching on the pavement next to the A-road. Pegs don't go easily into concrete so spent the rest of the night in a saggy bag of a tent in the rain and got woken up by lorries from the quarries thundering past at 5am. Camping in the hills the next night was a great antidote.

There are more pictures on my Facebook page.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Knoydart timelapse

Here's another timelapse of Knoydart, as seen from my garden. This is about an hour compressed into 17 seconds, shot on my Canon EOS 7D. You can see the lights of the metropolis of Inverie coming on as the light fades.