Up and on the move for 5:45am, I slept quite well. A deer did gallop down the track at some point, sounding like it was going at full speed. It is 5 miles to Richmond. I descend to a little bridge and cross a beck, little metal plagues have been nailed to the wooden crossing … More Day 5 – Hiking Solo on the Coast to Coast
I keep sliding down to the end of my tent as I’m not 100% level and I don’t sleep as well as I was hoping for. Alas, I’m packed and walking for 5:30am. I pass by Borrowdale YHA, a hostel my siblings and I stayed in 5 years ago. It is super quiet, tents sit … More Day 2 ~ Hiking the Coast to Coast Solo
Even though our alarms go off at 7am, we doze intermittently. I return to the dream world and imagine that we are surrounded by loads of other campers and tents. I’m grateful that when I wake, this isn’t the case. We’re walking for 10:20am and march along in wet shoes towards the Camasunary bothy and … More Day 5 – Hiking the Skye Trail – reaching Elgol
We’ve slept in, my alarm was set for 7am but we didn’t get up for a while…I could hear rain coming and going, hitting the tent walls and a slight breeze slipping inside. It wasn’t cold and I was rather cosy buried in my sleeping bag. Walking by 8:30am, today was the day of ridge … More Day 2 – Hiking the Skye Trail
We’ve slept in – or by hiker standards we’ve overslept :p Hiking from 7:30am we follow the track arrive at Rubha Hunish which is the northern point of the headland and houses a bothy. We arrive to an international crowd with folk from New Zealand, Netherlands, Germany, Czech, UK and the US. Some were rolling … More Day 1 -Hiking the Skye Trail
