Coast to Coast Day 6

Friday 4^th October 2019 Reeth

I awoke around 4:45 due to falling asleep so early yesterday.  I listened to music until around 6:30 and then I was up and away before 7, starting off in the dark and trying to find the correct way out of Kirkby Stephen and across the river.

Initially it was another drizzly misty day.  When I got to the signpost/fingerpost mentioned in the guidebook I could not see the Nine Standards, and the advice was that if you could not see them you should not go along the difficult route.  So, I took the winter/green route avoiding them completely.  I got a little disoriented just prior to hitting a thin road across the moors, but as the trail now followed the road that was fine.

Following a couple of sections of swollen stream that I had to navigate (and jump across) I arrived at Ravenseat around 10 and it was all shut up, so no cream teas, no meeting Amanda, no seeing the hustle and bustle of life on the farm.

Old path on the right, new on the left

A friendly sheep

I was through Keld around 11 where I reconnected briefly with the Pennine Way.

Then on to the high route over to Reeth that I had (mostly) taken in reverse when connecting back with the Pennine Way from my 3-day course in Reeth (you can read about my Pennine Way walk here, and about the few days in Reeth here).

The high route was atmospherically the same as my previous trip.

Before Reeth I passed another C2C walker (walking in the same direction) who suggested a pint in the pub in Reeth later – I saw him again just as he entered Reeth where we confirmed what pub we were meeting at before he went to find his accommodation, but after checking into my B&B I came back to sit there in the pub for 3 hours and he never showed.

It was the same B&B I had stayed in last time I was here (but at a slightly higher cost as I would not get the multi-night discount I did for the last visit).

Day 7