When you spend more than one night at a B&B, you build quite a relationship with the staff, or in our case, the owner. At the Keld Lodge, we received some of the best advice and treatment of our trip … Read More

After a brief foray into the bandwidth-free lands of the North Yorkshire Dales, we are back on the grid in Reeth. My last post left us at Kirkby Stephen, a wonderful town dedicated to the English culture of long distance … Read More

Surprisingly, we awoke to overcast skies, spitting rain, and chilly temperatures… What’s new. Happily, by the time we had finished breakfast, the rains had largely subsided and the sun was beginning to poke holes through the clouds. It was the … Read More

Last night, we made it to Orton: the town without internet. Yesterday was a surprisingly full and exciting day, considering we moorland is often discredited as boring and unexciting. We awoke in Bampton Grange to the standard English forecast: overcast, … Read More

Yesterday, my Dad and I made a bet about today’s weather forecast. On Wednesday, the forecast had been calling for 40-50 mph winds and rain with temperatures near freezing in elevated areas of the Lake District. I was sure that … Read More

As soon as we got to our B&B last night, I began editing together some of my GoPro footage from Striding Edge and our ascent of Helvellyn. Assembled on an iPad, this is no cinematic masterpiece, but it gets the … Read More

Striding Edge: I had heard my Dad read Wainwright’s descriptions of it ever since we arrived in England, but now I actually got to experience it. This section of the Coast to Coast, from Grasmere to Patterdale, has two different … Read More

Another day in Grasmere, another day in paradise. On many of the long-distance cycling or backpacking trips that I have done, rest days are often some of the most tiring. They represent a gap in a routine, that can be … Read More

In a truly relaxed fashion, the Royal Oak Hotel in Borrowdale had us waiting for breakfast until 8:00 AM, far later than I would wait to eat on any regular backpacking trip. It was well worth the wait, and it … Read More