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Coast to Coast

This gallery contains photos from the series: Coast to Coast

Pictures from my Coast to Coast walk, May 2007, from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire.

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Coast to Coast - Day 1 - St Bees Head

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - Lighthouse on St Bees Head

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - the view inland with Dent Fell

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - looking back halfway up the fell, having just reached to top of the tree line

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - the view from the top of Dent Fell

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - Nannycatch valley

Coast to Coast - Day 1 - the fake stone circle

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the road towards Ennerdale water

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the weir at the foot of Ennerdale water

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view across Ennerdale water

$Coast to Coast - Day 2 - Robin Hood\\\\\\\'s Chair$

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - Ennerdale Water

$Coast to Coast - Day 2 - bluebells on the hillside after rounding Robin Hood\\\\\\\'s Chair$

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - looking back from the head of Ennerdale Water

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the head of Ennerdale Water

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view up the valley

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view up the valley

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - RootZone!

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - deforestation at the top of Ennerdale valley

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - there should be a way up out of this valley...

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view from the top looking back over Ennerdale Water to the Irish Sea

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view north over Buttermere

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view down into Borrowdale

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view down the western side of Honister Pass

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view into Borrowdale on the way down Honister Pass

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view into Borrowdale on the way down Honister Pass

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the view into Borrowdale on the way down Honister Pass

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - sheltering tree

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - the river Derwent

Coast to Coast - Day 2 - bridge over the River Derwent

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - the view up Borrowdale

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - the view back down Borrowdale, halfway to Lining Crag

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - the first sight of Lining Crag just over the top of the ridge

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - Lining Crag

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - view from the top of Lining Crag

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - the Wythburn Trap was just over the ridge as the cloud rolled in from Grasmere

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - the way ahead through the Wythburn Trap

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - a tree in the mist looms over a small waterfall

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - misty ridges, but the bracken was glowing

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - descending down towards Grasmere

Coast to Coast - Day 3 - view at the start of the Grasmere valley

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - low cloud shrouded all the fells around Grasmere

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the start of the way up around Great Tongue

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view back was somewhat misty

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - misty sheep

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Grisdale Tarn from the south

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - The way up onto the ridge and towards Helvellyn

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Grisdale Tarn from the north

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - many of the cairns could be mistaken for sheep in the mist, thankfully this post was easier to recognise - and did not move!

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the cairn at the top of Helvellyn

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the triangulation point on the top of Helvellyn

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the monument marking the start of the route down to Striding Edge

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Striding Edge was down there somewhere in the mist

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Striding Edge in the mist

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view into Patterdale

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the first view of Ullswater and the Steamers!

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Ullswater and Glenridding

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - a view back with a break in the cloud to show a welcome patch of blue sky

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Steamer Lady Wakefield

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view down Ullswater

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Steamer Lady of the Lake docking

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view up Ullswater towards Patterdale

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view down Ullswater

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view down Ullswater with a loan sailing boat

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Howtown

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Steamer Raven leaving Howtown

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - the view up Ullswater to Patterdale

Coast to Coast - Day 4 - Coming into dock in Glenridding.

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - a postbox in Patterdale

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - A proud sheep with her young lamb

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - the view up Patterdale, not long after the path started to climb up to the Hause

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - the view up Patterdale

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - the last view of Ullswater and the steamers

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - Angle Tarn

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - The way up to High Street in the cloud

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - Kidsty Pike, the highest point on the Coast to Coast

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - the view of Haweswater from Kidsty Pike

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - the view across to the Yorkshire Dales from Kidsty Pike

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - There is a lot of water in them fells, almost as much as in my boots today

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - The foot of Haweswater with the dam at the end

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - looking back up Haweswater

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - Bampton Grange across a hay meadow

Coast to Coast - Day 5 - a hay meadow, we are now very much out of the lake district

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - bluebell wood at Burnbanks

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - having a sleep in on a Sunday morning

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - Shap Abbey

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - I have never been so pleased to see the M6, it marks a third of the way on the Coast to Coast (as the crow flies)

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - Hardendale Quarry

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - first bit of limestone pavement

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - trees in limestone pavement

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - top of Orton Scar

Coast to Coast - Day 6 - sheep in the valley

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - a good start to the day with blue sky and fluffy white clouds

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - a stone circle augmented by sheep

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - it seems the horses have shrunk

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - moorland and Sunbiggin Tarn

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - the wrong viaduct (Silly Boy!)

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - thankfully this is the right viaduct

Coast to Coast - Day 7 - the view down to Kirkby Stephen

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the view back over Kirkby Stephen

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - Hartley Quarries

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the path up to Nine Standards

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - Nine Standards on the horizon (they are either small and close or big and far away)

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - getting closer to the Nine Standards, it has been a longer than expected walk so far...

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - one of the massive Nine Standards

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - one of the massive Nine Standards

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - one of the massive Nine Standards

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the fells look a long way away

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - Helvellyn is there in the distance

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the path goes due south from here

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the peat bogs were not that easy to cross where the turf was broken (or completely warn away)

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - shooting hides

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the view back up along one of the smaller scars

Coast to Coast - Day 8 - the river and larger scar

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - waterfall just outside Keld

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - looking back to Keld

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - bluebells

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - patches of bluebells and stones on the other side of the valley

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - mine workings

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - North Hush, with views to the hushes on the other side of the valley

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - mining buildings

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - mining buildings

Coast to Coast - Day 9 - Surrender Bridge

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - the view over Reeth into Swaledale

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - meadow near the river Swale

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - the staircase through the wood

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - the white cairn and the view back along the path

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - Richmond (North Yorkshire)

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - view of the town centre from the Castle

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - a view out over Swaledale

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - a view over the town down to the river Swale

Coast to Coast - Day 10 - the Castle tower

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - the river Swale flowing out of Richmond

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - the M1, two-thirds of the way no behind me

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - a field of barley

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - a field of oil seed

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - the farmers were busy cutting the grass for silage

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - the railway line

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - about the steepest slope all day across the railway

Coast to Coast - Day 11 - the water tower in Ingleby Arncliff

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - the view back over the Vale of York and Ingleby Cross

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - the first bit of the North York Moors

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - it seemed rude not to stop and sit a while to enjoy the view

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - the flagstone path up through the wood led to the moors

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - I can see the North Sea for the first time on the horizon (just)

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - looking back along the ridges

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - glider

$Coast to Coast - Day 12 - the path eastwards towards Robin Hood\\\\\\\'s Bay$

Coast to Coast - Day 12 - one of the ridges

Coast to Coast - Day 13 - the disused railway track to Blakey Ridge

Coast to Coast - Day 13 - the disused railway track to Blakey Ridge

Coast to Coast - Day 13 - the valley to the north of Glaisdale Moor

Coast to Coast - Day 13 - the valley to the south of Glaisdale Moor

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - the river out of Glaisdale

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - steps up through the woodland alongside the river

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - train at Grosmont Station of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - the North Sea on the horizon at Whitby

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - views across the moorland to the sea

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - views across the moorland to the sea

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - the Hermitage

Coast to Coast - Day 14 - Flowing Foss waterfall

Coast to Coast - Day 15 - the last bit of moorland to cross on the North York Moors

Coast to Coast - Day 15 - the cliffs looking north towards whitby

$Coast to Coast - Day 15 - the headland on the southern side of Robin Hood\\\\\\\'s Bay$

Coast to Coast - Day 15 - Bay Town, the end is in sight

Coast to Coast - Day 15 - The End

$Coast to Coast - Day 15 - Wainwright\\\\\\\'s Bar$

$Coast to Coast - Day 15 - down on the beach of Robin Hood\\\\\\\'s Bay$

3 Comments

Rupert

Posted 30 May 07 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

Enjoying the photo’s lots of big open spaces. Where there many other humans doing the walk?
Tim

Posted 6 June 07 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

Striding edge looked fun in that mist! Yes this is the alternative to working…

Tim
Dik

Posted 18 February 09 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

Fantastic photos! many thanks for allowing me to use some for my Coast to Coast website. Much appreciated.

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