Wainwrights coast to coast - Stanley Pond to Ennerdale Bridge - A Hiking Movie

Join me as I hike this fantastic 15km trail which is part of the Wainwrights Coast to Coast - starting out at Stanley Pond where we wild camped the night we head up and over Dent finishing at Ennerdale Bridge
The Coast to Coast was originally described by Alfred Wainwright in his 1973 book A Coast to Coast Walk. Wainwright's book has since been revised a number of times in recent years (most recently in 2003) with updates to the recommended route.
Wainwright's book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a settlement with at least some overnight accommodation nearby. If one stage is walked per day, with one or two rest days, the route makes a two-week holiday, and web logs of coast-to-coasters seem to indicate that this is the most common way of walking the route. However, Wainwright explicitly states that he did not intend people to necessarily stick to these daily stages, or even to his route. For instance, the majority of Wainwright's stages start and end at low level with a single up-down during the day: many walkers split the Borrowdale-Patterdale stage at Grasmere in order to maintain this pattern and avoid having two major uphill sections in one day. Splitting two or three more of the longer stages, and adding a further one or two rest days, reduces the average day-length to 10 or 12 miles and makes the walk a much easier three-week trip with time to "stand and stare", an activity much approved of by Wainwright.
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[@MWaNut]

04.30 hours.....A true exponent of the art of hiking Nick-Great Job

[@NickGoesHiking]

Thanks ☺️

[@roseltamangbinodlimboo]

Great hike

[@NickGoesHiking]

It is! I love this stretch, done it several times now and it never gets old

[@BigBossBam]

Spot on vid! Shame about the damn weather!

[@NickGoesHiking]

Pesky British weather at its finest 👌🏻

[@mifrick]

Lovely hike, Nick!

[@NickGoesHiking]

😊

[@markshrimpton3138]

I wonder what old AW would have made of drone footage. I have a feeling that he wouldn’t have been impressed. I never met him but know someone who did on several occasions as he worked for Wainwright’s publishers. Apparently AW, as her preferred to be known, was a bit of a curmudgeonly old boy, who generally didn’t even acknowledge fellow fell walkers. I think you made the right choice at the end.

[@NickGoesHiking]

🤣 I once read he didn't even like it being called hiking, he preferred ambling so he'd probably be horrified by the drones noise, once it's up far enough though you can't hear it, everyone I meet out hiking loves it and asks to see the footage so that's nice ☺️

[@markshrimpton3138]

@@NickGoesHiking well I certainly appreciate your walks and breathtaking drone footage.

[@Mark-Creed1962]

Awesome footage mate good to see Dent from the air.

[@NickGoesHiking]

Looks different doesn't it :)

[@Mark-Creed1962]

@@NickGoesHiking Yer doesn't look so steep lol.

[@NickGoesHiking]

@@Mark-Creed1962 🤣 certainly looks a lot easier than it actually is

[@amberhines3979]

That's beautiful, Nick. You allow me to see places I'll never see in real life ❤

[@NickGoesHiking]

You're very welcome Amber, it's one of the reasons I do it also for when I can't 😊

[@DownTheRoadWithDiane]

Wow, what views you had on that hill and going up that hill i was phew. It's great seeing all the greens. The great Britush weather you gotta laugh NOT

[@NickGoesHiking]

Some real great views all around!
Typical British weather, unfortunately it means I can't record with the drone which is a big part of why I go in the first place