Talk:Coast to Coast Walk

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My recollection is that AW devised this route as antidote to the Pennine Way, to show how any walker competent at map work could devise their own long-distance route, without the need for special designation. Which is why it's in the right spirit that there IS still no designated route and that many alternatives exist. Am I remembering correctly? Bob aka linuxlad

Quite right, have added notes to that effect - Chris Jones

Wainwright's publishers presumably believe that there is a "correct route", and continue to produce new versions to take account of alterations in rights of way (or perhaps just to USE rights of way where Wainwright didn't). I don't know if the authors of all the different guides (about three, aren't there?) always agree on the route (if they do, where do they go for the "official" version?). It is surprising, really, that the Coast to Coast has never become a National Trail (why we had to go US usage for that I'll never know) - it WOULD have an official route then. Of course, many walkers do insist that it is "cheating" to deviate an inch from the "book" route, and thus miss Wainwright's point about finding your own way. I've done the walk twice, and my approach was to stick by his route pretty much except when heading to pubs or hotels off the line (in which case I would not worry unduly about getting back to his route at the same point I left it). What I DO consider cheating (for me) is (a) Getting someone else to carry clothes around for me (b) Getting lifts in cars. I do not mind others doing that, of course ; but I would feel I was doing a connected series of day walks, rather than a three-week (yes, three! I never rush) journey: I'm sure others would think this was very nit-picky of me!. Of course, all walkers on this route have so much more in common compared with anyone who can't understand the pleasures of country walking, that to argue amongst ourselves about protocol should only be in fun, never for real. NorthOnTop 14:14, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Just looked at Dave Dunford's changes. Well done for replacing my hyphens with proper dashes - I approve entirely, I never bother use real dashes (see a few words back!) even though I understand the difference between them and hyphens (I will look for the character code so I can use dashes in my work as well as in Wiki). And I was amused that Dave replaced my "vacation" with "holiday". Being English, I was going to use "holiday" myself, but I thought that to many anglophones, "holiday" just means a national day or two off work for a particular occasion, so I decided to compromise my British English principles and use "vacation" (which is understood here, even if used little) so as not to baffle readers from the * * of * with the concept of a two-week "holiday" !. Well done Dave, right behind you. Hope we can get away with it! NorthOnTop 14:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the author may be confusing Goathland for Egton Bridge on this page. Goathland is a little off-route and Egton Bridge has the stepping stones. James 2006-09-11.

[edit] Pictures and maps

This page is crying out for some photos and maps if anyone has any--Moonlight Mile 22:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

i have some, which anyone is welcome to use. [1] James

I have put the route of the Coast to Coast into Google Earth along with some useful information and would be happy to add it here if people think that's okay? It can be found at [2] Tomcrocker 15:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Journal

Added a link to our C2C journal.

Anybody wishing to use any of the photos either on our journal or photo gallery to spruce up the page is free to do so. Kevanliz 07:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Travel guide

Much of this article reads like a how-to or guide rather than an encyclopedia article (Wikipedia is not a travel guide), with a lot of personal opinions to boot. Some substantial pruning and shortening would make it a much better article I think. --Blisco 11:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Is anybody else up for doing this? I'd like to do it, but I don't want to tread on anybody's toes... Jamesfcarter 22:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

There's some information here which I agree is not suitable for wikipedia, but could well be valuable in a wikitravel article on the Coast to Coast. --David Edgar 12:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

That makes a lot of sense to me. The info is good - just not encyclopedic --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately it's not possible to copy text to Wikitravel unless you're the copyright holder, due to license incompatibility (WT uses a Creative Commons license rather than GFDL), and the info was added by an anon so it would be difficult to ask them. One solution might be to preserve it on someone's user subpage for the time being -- unless (or until) anyone would like to publish it on their own personal website. --Blisco 19:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)