Distance: 14.5 milesTime: 5 hours
I walked this section on Saturday, I had walked a few miles of this a couple of years ago so was very familiar and another section of it I have fished for years. It was very cold when we set off just before 8:30 mainly due to the wind. It was a good test for my wind jacket and base layer, they both worked perfect. It's a shame my face was freezing, I'm thinking I may need to grow a beard for the West Highland Way, lol.
There was a lot of open fields on this section and the first woods we really walk though was just after Bishop viaduct heading towards Escomb (oldest Saxon church in England, still standing anyway). It was muddy and there were loads of thorn bushes through this section. I managed to catch my nice new jacket a couple of times and put tiny holes in (bollocks!). The nicest part of this section was a very short section near Witton Castle when we walked through a small wood. The worst section was just after this next to a Horse Cross Country section, we had to waddle along the path with our feet apart on the grass either side of the very muddy path. I didn't mind but this took its toll on my dad. Then right near the end there was a flooded field and some steep steps which I ran up but my dad stuggled walking them after 13/14 miles.
I'm not sure about the distance because the comptuer shows 15.4, the GPS itself always shows less I think it was 14.6 and the official distance shows 13.5 but I think that is less than it should be. So I've gone with a happy medium.
I didn't take any photos today because my gloves stayed firmly on and I forgot, oops!
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