Walking the Pennine Way | July 2020 | Part 2: Middleton-in-Teesdale to Kirk Yetholm 

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Ohh, thanks for watching, Meryem 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃😀

thanks for watching 😇

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Hi, thank you for watching 🌞 what I can say is that most hikers assume that land owners will tolerate PW walkers who wild camp as long as they adhere to 'leave no trace' and set up their tent late and leave early 🙊

Thank you, Ian :) yes, along Blackstone that was one of the worst days along the trail and I found it hard to follow the trail at Blenkinsopp Common - totally agree with you 😁 High Cup Nick was great and also the stage from Byrness in the Cheviots, and the first stage too 🌅 I feel like the Pennine Way really gives you a lot of very varied experiences! Hope you enjoyed it as well

@@hanry7 There’s a trail across Blenkinsopp Common? 😂😂 The Cheviots never seem to get good publicity but I enjoyed them and, living in Yorkshire, the ‘local’ stretch through limestone country from Gargrave to Keld/Tan Hill I also enjoyed, not least because it’s familiar to me.

​@@ianpark1805 😁 oh, yes, the stage to Tan Hill was very nice too, and I had great weather that day! Also, the walk from Middleton-in-Teesdale along Cauldron Snout was beautiful... Actually, there were a lot of great days 🤔 Hadrian's Wall was pleasant as well 🌾

@@hanry7 I’ve done The full Hadrian’s Wall walk too. Very nice but can’t be described as a wilderness experience - blame Roman engineering. Went to see a band the other week wearing my Tan Hill t-shirt. At the merch stand afterwards the drummer said to me “Cool t-shirt”!

@@ianpark1805 Ah, but it's nice to walk from coast to coast! What I actually like about the Pennine Way is that it has both wilderness and town-to-town walking with some cultural sights. That's great, and who knows, maybe the drummer has walked the Pennine Way too 😁

That's true, the chicken in your garden or you looking out of your caravan would have been a good sequence 😀 but I'm always a little cautious about filming when other people are present 🙈

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Oh, that's a tough question! I think the Southern Upland Way is wilder (despite a lot of wind mills) and more secluded than the Pennine Way. Maybe that is because I did the SUW in spring though. It felt like the greater adventure, especially with the snow in the end. Apart from that, I also really enjoyed walking from coast to coast 🌊 And I feel more comfortable in places where wild camping is legal 🏕️ The PW is is culturally/historically more interesting and passes by more villages and pubs. It definitely is tougher and it includes less forest walks 🌄 the Pennine Way might be more scenic after all but it's hard to compare that 🤔 Have you done one of the trails?

@@hanry7 I first did the Pennine Way back in 1982 when I was 15 years old, it was a young boys adventure so it has a special place in my heart. I now live near Stoodley Pike and love the wild moors of the Pennines. The SUW is also another favourite trail, very few people walk it and there are some big open spaces and great camping. Perhaps the PW is more varied than the SUW and the scenery changes as you walk north, but both are great. I've walked most of the UK trails as well as backpacking Lands End to John O'Groats when I was 18, and the best was probably the Cambrian Way in Wales. Though it's also probably the toughest in the UK.

Oh, you're an expert then! You have walked so much! 🌄 Do you have any hiking plans left? I would like to try and walk from South to North one day but need to walk New Zealand first 😀 the Cumbrian Way seems interesting, I haven't heard of it before!

@@hanry7 Enjoy New Zealand. I've done the Travers-Sabine, Rees Dart, and Kepler tracks in the South Island. All superb and less crowded than the more popular trails.

Yeah, that's what it's all about 😇🍃😀