Trailblazer Guide Books

Trailblazer guidebooks provide practical information on specific routes… in less accessible parts of the world.
 - Wanderlust

INTRODUCTION

About the Coast to Coast path
Wainwright’s Coast to Coast path 9 – Mr Coast to Coast: Alfred
Wainwright 9 – How difficult is the Coast to Coast path? 11
How long do you need? 13 – When to go 14

PART 1: PLANNING YOUR WALK
Practical information for the walker
GPS 18 – Accommodation 19 – Information for foreign visitors 22 Food and drink 25 – Money 26 – Internet access 27 – Other services 27
Walking companies 27 – Taking dogs along the path 31

Budgeting 32

Itineraries
Which direction? 34 – Suggested itineraries 34 – Village and town
facilities 36 – Day and weekend walks 38 – Side trips 40

What to take
Travelling light 40 – How to carry it 40 – Footwear 41 – Clothes 43
Toiletries 44 – First-aid kit 44 – General items 44 – Sleeping bag and
camping gear 44 – Money 45 – Maps 45 – Recommended reading 47
Sources of further information 48

Getting to and from the Coast to Coast path
National transport 49 – Getting to Britain 50 – Local transport 53
Public transport map 55

PART 2: THE ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
Conserving the Coast to Coast path
Government agencies and schemes 56 – Campaigning and
conservation organisations 58 – Beyond conservation 59

Flora and fauna
Mammals 60 – Reptiles 61 – Birds 62 – Flowers 64 – Trees 65

PART 3: MINIMUM IMPACT WALKING & OUTDOOR SAFETY
Minimum impact walking
Environmental impact 67 – Access 70

Outdoor safety
Avoidance of hazards 71 – Weather forecasts 73 – Blisters 73
Hypothermia 73 – Hyperthermia 74 – Sunburn 74
Collapse of morale 74


PART 4: ROUTE GUIDE AND MAPS
Using the guide 76

St Bees 77

Stage 1: St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge 83
(Moor Row 87 – Cleator 90 – Ennerdale Bridge 92)

Stage 2: Ennerdale Bridge to Borrowdale 94 (The Red Pike, High Stile & Hay Stacks route 98 – Seatoller 105 – Borrowdale 106)

Stage 3: Borrowdale to Grasmere 109 (The ridge-walk alternative to Grasmere via Helm Crag 113 – Easedale 113 – Grasmere 114)

Stage 4: Grasmere to Patterdale 118 (The high-level options: Helvellyn & Striding Edge 124; St Sunday Crag 126 – Patterdale 126 Ullswater and Glenridding 129)

Stage 5: Patterdale to Shap 128 (Bampton 132 – Shap 135)

Stage 6: Shap to Kirkby Stephen 139
(Orton 141 – Kirkby Stephen 151)

Stage 7: Kirkby Stephen to Keld 155
(The three routes to Keld 158 – Keld 163 – Thwaite 166)

Stage 8: Keld to Reeth 166
(The Swaledale Valley alternative 175 – Reeth 177)

Stage 9: Reeth to Richmond 181 (Richmond 188)

Stage 10: Richmond to Ingleby Cross 194
(Colburn, Catterick Bridge & Brompton-on-Swale 194,
Danby Wiske 202 – Ingleby Cross & Ingleby Arncliffe 208)

Stage 11: Ingleby Cross to Blakey Ridge 208 (Osmotherley 211 – Urra 217 – Great Broughton 218 – Blakey Ridge 222)

Stage 12: Blakey Ridge to Grosmont 222
(Glaisdale 224 – Egton Bridge 229 – Grosmont 230)

Stage 13: Grosmont to Robin Hood’s Bay 233
(Littlebeck 236 – High Hawsker 241 – Robin Hood’s Bay 242)

APPENDICES
Map key 246
GPS Waypoints 247
Place name meanings 255

INDEX  252