Coast to Coast is upon us…

Well It’s that time and the Coast to Coast is upon us,this time tomororw we will be a few miles into our journey from St Bees on the west coast of England to Robin Hoods Bay on the East coast of England. I’ve set up a live map, how often it will get updated I don’t know but I thought I would test out the GPS on my Iphone. With any luck it will be updated pretty often alongw with my chilliupnorth and beerreviewsandy twitter accounts, my flickr account and my facebook account and with any luck my Youtube account, so feel free to follow my progress on one or all of those GPS tracking powered by InstaMapper.com You can also view the maps by clicking the links...

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These just arrived from @brodiesbeers for #ourc2c watch this space

brodies beers on our coast to coast walk

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Printing maps to a4 loads easier than foldy maps #ourc2c

coast to coast walk maps

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Coast 2 Coast update

In a couple of days we will be setting off on our Coast 2 Coast walk,  preparations had been great until last week when I got bitten whilst out walking, I had a reaction to what looks like a horse fly bite, as a result my ankle went bright red and swelled up, thankfully after a few trips to the walk in centre and the doctors and a course of antibiotics it seems to be clearing up. I’ve spent the last few days finalising the route on my tracklogs software, printing the maps to PDF so I can put a backup in IBooks on my Iphone. I’ve now just got to print them all out along with the route cards for each day. We’ve not started packing yet but most of the gear we are taking is spread around on the spare room floor while I try to decide what we should...

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Just some of the gear to pack for the coast2coast

coast to coast gear ready for packing

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Coast to Coast – Planning

Following in the legendary Wainwright’s footsteps and walking the coast to coast is something we have wanted to do for a few years now, but have never really given it any serious thought, then a few months ago we decided that it may be a good way to spend our 30th birthdays (in 2011) our birthdays are 13 days apart so in theory we could set off on Emily’s 30th and finish on my 30th. However when we were sat in the pub after doing the Glaisdale Round, we got talking and decided that we would prefer to do it sooner rather than later, so we are now planning to bring it forward a year and do it in 2010. I’ve already got a book and a few useful websites, have a rough idea of how and when we want to do it, using a mixture of campsites and...

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