The Pennine Way is a national trail, that begins in Edale, Derbyshire and finishes in Kirk Yetholm, Scotland.
It is 293 mile long and took around 3 weeks to complete. I'll include some of my photos from the trail and try to add in a few stories.
The Start of the Pennine Way is the Old Nags Head pub at Edale, Derbyshire,
I Spent the Friday night drinking here, prior to the first day walk. Had a good few pints of Barnsley Bitter then back to the youth hostel.
This Blog follows the diaries of myself, Dan Fletcher, and companion Andrew Walker.
Dan and Andrew hail from Dronfield, Derbyshire. We took the challenge in July 2002 after discussing the trail about one month prior. We Borrowed, Begged and stole all our equiptment. In fact my rucksack was found in a skip by my dad.
Looking back not sure why, but we each took a plastic sword strapped to our backbacks. They acted as good conversation pieces. " Hey guys, whats with the swords ...." ..... " they're for slaying dragons !"
To walk nearly 300 miles in 3 weeks, to walk to another country, with no experience, its a challenge to say the least.
But a challange that is so rewarding. If your thinking of beginning the Pennine Way, drop me a mail at dwfletch71@aol.com for a chat
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