Woke up, raining again Im getting sick of taking wet clothes off, only to put them back on still wet everyday :( todays target is horton in ribblesdale a hilly 15 mile walk, im walking on pure willpower now, my feet are shot. And im exhausted most of the time due to not eating enough to keep me going. At the begining of todays walk we passed a couple also doing the walk, then later as we rested they went passed us, then later they rested we passed them, this went on all day but on the final decent into Horton we hadnt seen them for ages? We came across the Golden Lion pub, went in for a guinness :) 5 mins later the couple did the same. Turns out they are americans from michigan over here just to do this trek! They will leave with a funny view of England i thought, cos all the villages they go through are stuck in the 1920s lol

Well its our 7th day and progress is slow, however we did 2 half days, mainly avoiding really bad weather. At the end of the day i want to enjoy this trip, and walking in very high wind and rain isnt pleasant.
Today we walked to malham, an easy walk over green hills, sometimes muddy, and then followed the malham beck river. This led us to the campsite. We settled here ready for the hills tomorrow :) woke up this morning with blisters full of fluid, so cut em to get the fluid out. Resting them now.
Getting a shower, when clean ill put antiseptic on and see how it is tomorrow. 2 girls we met also walkers was camping on same site walked with us today, when we returned after a brief gas leak in car (thats camping gas!!!) they left. If Jo and Sharon are reading this. Hello :)

I see building like this all the time, from medievil britain and now just left to rot :(

 My litte mates, they was happy to see me, and they made a change from sheep haha :)

Wuthering heights???

 

Well set off at 8.30 in rain... Fancy that, great this british weather lol anyway we was in good spirits and made good progress. In the photo is studley pike monument, then i took the next picture looking back at the same monument as we walked away over the hills

Well we was going to stop at hebden bridge at a campsite, but we somehow walked too far, so kept going till we reached ponden about an 18 mile walk today. As we dashed to escape the rain we ran into a derelict old house. As we sheltered we realised it was a famous house from wuthering heights, the bronte house? 

Means nothing to me, not seen the film :) 

My Right foot is getting sore :(

Up early panic to dry things out... Everything is very very wet. So we headed in to town to dry things out. This means we havent made any progress yet and its 10.30am already, but we desperately need to dry our things

 These pictures are taken 180 degrees from each other last night... we approached and then crossed the waterfall... on the second photo you can see the path we came along on the right... and the path we left by...on the left

 Well today has been a complete waste of time... Setting off at 12.45 then after taking a wrong path and ending up at the bottom of a BIG hill, only to have to go up it again... This started some arguments then after getting back on track both my dad and my brother started moaning about sore feet. Dad with bruising and blisters, brother with blisters and a sore knee! However im fine and wanted to keep walking till nightfall. As you can imagine they didnt so we only walked for 4 hours in total today! Im not happy :( talks about me going off alone didnt in down well either.in the picture is the mast bringing TV and radio pictures to the people of the north west of England. Next to the M62 at blackstone edge. We are now in Lancashire :)

1 Man down... 3 to go ;)

Sorry for the slow updates, i dont have a phone signal most of the time :( well going from crowden seemed easy then came the rock climbing! Never expected to be crawling up rock faces on my knees in high winds! But i wanted adventure :)
Once we found somewhere to camp last night, we flagged a taxi down to take us for supplies and needed water!!...paid £20 to the driver.
today ive passed about 20 rivers and streams i could have drank from, typical :) worse of all ive got my boots dirty and think ive scratched em too hahaha after 3...awwwww :)

We've passed over derbyshire now going over yorkshire  ;)

ooooo look i see Yorkshire!!
Well the day is over.... been a strange one, started off wet AGAIN! woke up i could hear rain bashing on the tent... a very depressing thought as i lay there with sore legs and back...
Trouble is our tent is only small, to keep weight down so to get dressed you have to do it OUTSIDE lol...in the rain this morning :( mind you it means i get dressed quick LOL
Then after packing the wet tent away i brushed my teeth and set off on the walk, cadburys boost chocolate bar for breakfast on the go ahhaha then off i went.
Talk about being lulled into a false sense of security!! started really easy... i though this is better my tired legs can handle this... then we met a cliff face i checked the map twice! even called up the GPS on the phone to check direction.... yep its up there i shouted to the other two... they didnt look happy ahahah mind you i wasnt either... so after 2 hours of climbing and grazing my knees etc on the rocks we got to the top... the path then followed very close to the cliff edge...
After a while the path split... one way carried on the cliff edge, the othe went inland away from it??? because of the hight wind and nearly being blown off!! we decided to go inland....BIG MISTAKE!!
At first we was happy, i had a nagging feeling we was going wrong way... the others didnt seem to be bothered... i tried calling the GPS on phone, but for it to work you need Network coverage for the maps etc... no signal :( we kept moving till i got a signal... this confirmed what i thought... we was 2 miles off track!! ffs, i told them we need to go East to get back to the pennine way, we did go east... through peat bogs... nightmare!! we lost about 2 hours with this mistake and my target of the M62 and Blackstone edge looked even more difficult now.... we plodded on in the high wind... then came the rain....sideways and very hard!!! After several hours of rain, it even got through my waterproofs and my rucksack.... everything including me wet through!!! :(when we turned into the rain i couldnt even look up the rain hurt my face!! we ended up crossing the A62 and cars passing must have though we was mental ahahah 3 drowned rats crossing :)
i was already wet and my feet now squelching... the golden rule of walkers kept ringing through my head "Never ever get your feet wet!" too late was the cry... specially when my right foot suddenly went down a big hole full of water... right up to the knee!!! i fell and smashed my knees on the rocks ouch!! i got up and just carried on... Andy said are you OK... i said well i cant get any wetter now... what next? some nob with a firemans hose!!
Made it to our next stop for the night (Blackstone edge) at 7:30pm... very tired and very wet, i also have sores on both feet now, i put this down to walking 15 of the 20 miles with soggy feet!

Last night had sweet thai chilli for tea on the camp stove.. Thats the good news in our panic to set up camp last night we set tents up next to a 250ft cliff rain and wind all night howling over the top woke to a very wet and cold tent at 5.50am. Rather than have breakfast in them conditions we pressed on.

Went down a very tricky cliff side, balance was made harder carrying 60 pound in a backpack! (the camo lump in the middle of the above picture) Saw a sign for snake inn pub but its way off cant see it, tempting ive run out of water. Anyway carried on and crossed the snake pass A57

Just a note: in the top picture you can see moggy on the left, 5 mins after this photo he went home, although he had'nt been moaning... he was very quiet today. he's had enough :(
See ya Moggy.... we will see you back hom soon ;)

Arrived by car to Edale, was raining hard i thought that was bad enough but then in my rush managed to slam the car door on my thumb! Blood everywhere ...nail went black. :(
What a start! Walked several miles and up Jacobs ladder, a very long and steep hill. At this time i realised some were already struggling even swapping backpacks. We got to the top tired hot and wet :( the top was like the moon very wierd funny grey rocks and we was stood inside a cloud. We climbed over 2000 feet.
















we followed the cliff edge... It was going dark we needed to set up camp! No perfect ground anywhere the ground was boggy and no running water... Eventually we got to a stream but it was dirty water, too late we just set up tents on rough ground. Soon as we did we was attacked by flies all over my face and in my ears :( so ate quick and got in my tent LOL

As you can see we have been Joined by another keen member (Moggy, on right)

My Dad is taking the Photo... sorry about the poor quality, pics are taken on my phone

The PENNINE WAY adventure ;)

Walking the PENNINE WAY

something ive always wanted to do from being a young child.... ever since i started hiking with the Scouts, this 270 mile famous walk has been a regular topic of conversation

The 3 Amigo's taking on this epic Journey.... or alternatively the 3 stupid idiots!!!

                Andy Barnes     Richard Barnes     Sheldon Barnes
   (Brother)                (Dad)                    (Me)

Ingleton Falls, Carnforth

What your seeing here is. beleive it or not... a tree with lot of pennies stuck in it!! not on branch ..not even one tree!! lots of them, very nice :)

Part of a tree covered in coins, you are invited to knock in a few of your own, so the kids did :)

Our scott doing a bit of posing ehheh

Quickly joined by another poser... his mum

The walk along Ingleton falls follows the rivers Twiss and Doe and as the name suggests includes some great waterfalls along the way.

Another photo of our Scott with a waterfall in the distance behind him

As you can see by the size of the people, this is a large waterfall, and lots of people took the opportunity to climb up behind it. On the left of the picture in the green t-shirt is our Ryan waiting for Scott

Ryan in green and just behind him in the Yellow is Scott, Ryan protecting him cos he was scared of falling off :)

as we walked away i could hear crickets making a loud noise.... i looked around and saw these two having a sing off LOL

 

All in all, Ingleton falls is a peacful walk at a guess about 4 miles.... so not a hard walk, but it does take longer to finish cos of all the stopping to take things in, and for the kids to play :P our stopped once or twice to strip and swim in the river. 

Was very enjoyable and very cheap... about £3 i think... however on a rainy wet day, i would think it would be pretty miserable.