Scottish Coast to Coast Walk
The Southern Upland Way
The Southern Upland Way is Britain's first official coast to coast long distance foot-path. It runs 212 miles from Portpatrick on the south-west coast of Scotland to Cockburnspath on the eastern seaboard. . The Way provides a real challenge for the experienced walker. Travelling the entire 212 mile length of the Southern Upland Way will take you through an enormous variety of scenery and may provide a challenge that will give you a tremendous sense of achievement on completion. Many of the longer sections can be very arduous and would perhaps be difficult for some to manage in a single day. People normally take about 12 to 16 days to complete the route in one journey.
So that's the official information I found about the walk, the boys will be doing it in 10.5 days
Thurs
20th Travel up to Scotland
Friday
21st Portpatrick to New Luce - 23.5 miles
Monday
24th Dalry to Sanquar 27.5 miles
Tuesday
25th Sanquar to Wanlockhead just 8/9 miles today to allow for some recovery time
Wednesday
26th Wanlockhead to Moffat 20.5miles
Thursday
27th Moffat to St Mary’s Loch – 21.5miles
Friday
28th St Mary’s Loch to Galashiels 26.5miles
Saturday
29th Galashiels to Lauder –
14.5miles
Sunday
30th Lauder to Longformacas
– 16miles
Monday
1st LongFormacus
– Cockburnspath 17 miles **** Finish
**** Approx 218 miles.
Please follow their adventure here on my blog or on facebook "walkingthebeat"
anyone who would like to donate a few pennies can do so my visiting their website walking the beat and following the link to the just giving page, any amount no matter how small will be very gratefully received and every penny will go to greyhound gap!
Sue x
The boys arrived in Scotland at 7.50pm last night and had time to visit the local pub for a quick drink!
todays walks is Portpatrick to New Luce - 23.5 miles
The boys arrived in Scotland at 7.50pm last night and had time to visit the local pub for a quick drink!
todays walks is Portpatrick to New Luce - 23.5 miles
each day I will hopefully receive photo's and updates from Marc so we can follow them on the walk!
Please spread the word to all your friends and family
Sue x
5 comments:
Looks like so long as they can get a pint at the end of the long day, they'll keep going:)
Sounds like great fun. Too bad we're not closer to join.
I will be avidly following them and I'm going to post something on my blog in a little while too.
Love and licks, Winnie
This sounds like a fun and hard trip and a great way to raise money for the hounds.
I'm following along, Sue. Wouldn't miss it!
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