Cross the UK: Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast

Below you can find information on our Coast to Coast Challenge from 2010.  194 Miles in 7 Days.

We took this challenge on as it was 10 years since a good friend died from Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and we wanted to do something different in his name to raise some money for the organisation that offers local support to those afflicted by cancer and their families.

This is not you usual account of the coast to coast.  We don’t have lots of photos, we didn’t explore off route.

What we did was walk 190 miles in 6 and a half days finishing at lunch time on our 7th day.

Our route is laid out below. and you can use the links to jump to each post about our days.

I’ve realised as we wrote this up that our posts got progressively less detailed and our desire to photograph and journal our walk became less the further we got in.  This is not something to be attempted without strong support and determination.  We had no rest days, we walked the equivalent of a marathon a day for 7 days and raised over £4000 doing it.

Day Walking Miles Cumalative Miles to Date Height Climbed (m)
Wed 28th July St Bees to Borrowdale 29 0 1215
Thurs 29th July Borrowdale to Shap 34 29 1797
Fri 30th July Shap to Kirby Stephen 21 63 107
Sat 31st July Kirby Stephen to Reeth 24 84 645
Sun 1st August Reeth to Danby Wiske 24 108 405
Mon 2nd August Danby Wiske to Grosmont 42.5 132 1230
Tues 3rd August Grosmont to Robin Hoods Bay 15.5 174.5 475
Totals 190 5874

 

 

Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day Six (Danby Wiske to Grosmont)

Day Four: Danby Wiske to Grosmont (41 Miles) This was the day we did not need.  Originally this was a

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Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day Five (Reeth to Danby Wiske)

Day Four: Reeth to Danby Wiske (28 Miles) This was the day that we were waiting for.  We set out to do

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Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day Four (Kirby Stephen to Reeth)

Day Four: Kirby Stephen to Reeth (24 Miles) The most amazing thing about this walk is people you meet and

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Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day Three (Shap to Kirby Stephen)

Day Three: Shap to Kirby Stephen (21 Miles or rest day as we called it!)  There is no way to

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Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day Two (Stonethwaite to Shap)

Day Two: Stonethwaite to Shap (33 Miles)   The following morning we climbed our way out of the valley and

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Jeff and Mick’s Coast to Coast Day One (St Bees to Stonethwaite)

Day One: St Bees to Stonethwaite (29 Miles) So a year later and here we were again.  The start of

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