Re:British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright's Coas...
by pmyteh on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:45PM
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It's quite normal to stay in pubs and B&Bs doing the Coast to Coast - that's how my wife and I did it for our honeymoon. Wild camping is not lawful on any(?) part of the route, and organised camp sites are relatively scarce for most of it.
Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.
Re:British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright's Coas...
by OJFord on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:34PM
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Globally unusual do you mean? I can't imagine where in England that would not be true.
Re:British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright's Coas...
by pmyteh on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:25AM
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Yeah, globally. Most long distance hikes seem to be a few hundred miles of mostly majestic wilderness, while the C2C is an unusually lovely and varied walk strung together from local footpaths...
Re:British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright's Coas...
by OJFord on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:06AM
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It's a small and densely populated country. Twice the population of Canada over a fourtieth of the area. Scotland has a places a bit more like 'majestic wilderness', so that goes even more so for England.
If you want a pub walk though, no better place in the world!
I think author slept at some cottage every night. Taking sandwiches on through hike without resuply does not seem very practical..
I did wild camping in Scotland long time ago, but I would not recommend it today. Locals are not so welcoming now.