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Day 1 - 5 - Walking
Day 1 Started at Lands End to Exmoor by the South West Coast Path through Cornwall and Devon by minor paths and roads. The Beginning course took travels through Exmoor (National Park), the high grounds of the region form catchment ares which form numerous rivers and streams making the terrain ruggid and giving a much more intriguing landscape. -
Course Preperation Weather
Advice from others that have walked the course previously: Britain is blessed with a warm temperate climate. In theory. On a single day, it is easily possible to experience the full range of weather from fog, snow and wind, to clear skies and sun. Put 70 consecutive days together, and anything can, and will happen. You can%u2019t change the weather, and you%u2019ll never quite have a perfect walking day. Often, the baking sun can be worse than torrential rain. However, there's nothing worse than slogging -
Course Preperation Camping
Futher advice from previous participants: If you don't mind camping, and the added weight of carrying a tent, then it's the way to go. The added flexibility it gives you, particularly in less populated areas is invaluable. It is also much cheaper. It is even cheaper than that if you camp wild. Whilst it is desirable to ask the landowner's permission before you camp, this is often not practicable. -
Day 6 - 10 - Walking
Day 6 Ventured from the Grand Western Canal across Somerset by parts of the Macmillan Way West, which is via either the Limestone Link or Samaritans Way South West. The Macmillan Ways are a network of long distance footpaths that link points variable depending on the destination. -
Day 11 - 16 - Walking
Day 11 to the Peak District, which, can be accessed either by an eastern route using the Cotswold Way, Staffordshire Way and the Limestone Way; or using an alternative western route across the Severn Bridge then by the Offa's Dyke Path, the Maelor Way and the South Cheshire Way -
Day 17 - 22 - Walking
Day 17 to the Scottish Borders by the Pennine Way via St. Cuthbert's Way and a section of the Southern Upland Way to the Pentland Hills, advertising a wetland environment with a lengthy walking trail catering many view points over the valleys -
Day 23 & 28 - Walking
Day 23 by St. Cuthbert's Way and a section of the Southern Upland Way to the Pentland Hills, then by a western route using the towpaths of the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal, then by the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way to Inverness; or an eastern route across the Forth Road Bridge to Perth and Pitlochry, then by Glen Tilt and the Lairig Ghru to Speyside and the old Wade road to Inverness. -
Day 29 - 34 - Walking
Day 23 from Inverness to John o'Groats, there is no long distance footpath, so the route is mostly on roads with a few stretches of coast walking, to avoid road walking, some walkers head north west from the end of the West Highland Way at Fort William using parts of the Cape Wrath Trail, then head northeast through the Flow Country of Caithness -
Day 35 - 39 - Completion
After a long and enduring course beginning just under a fortnight ago the walkers covered over 10,000 km of walking which was more than exceptional. Many smiles on the face of people as they reached the destination. -
Intro
Land's End to John o' Groats is a journey - the traversal of the whole of the island of Great Britain from southwest to northeast
