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 ;)
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!
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