Wainwrights Coast to Coast - Uldale Plantation to Ennerdale Water - A Hiking Movie

Join me as I hike this fantastic 23km trail which is part of the Wainwrights Coast to Coast - starting out at the Uldale Plantation heading up and over the 350m peak of Dent and finishing off with a wild camp at Ennerdale Water
The Coast to Coast was originally described by Alfred Wainwright in his 1973 book A Coast to Coast Walk. Wainwright's book has since been revised a number of times in recent years (most recently in 2003) with updates to the recommended route.
Wainwright's book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a settlement with at least some overnight accommodation nearby. If one stage is walked per day, with one or two rest days, the route makes a two-week holiday, and web logs of coast-to-coasters seem to indicate that this is the most common way of walking the route. However, Wainwright explicitly states that he did not intend people to necessarily stick to these daily stages, or even to his route. For instance, the majority of Wainwright's stages start and end at low level with a single up-down during the day: many walkers split the Borrowdale-Patterdale stage at Grasmere in order to maintain this pattern and avoid having two major uphill sections in one day. Splitting two or three more of the longer stages, and adding a further one or two rest days, reduces the average day-length to 10 or 12 miles and makes the walk a much easier three-week trip with time to "stand and stare", an activity much approved of by Wainwright.

[@robertbyers9761]

Lovely area, just gorgeous

[@NickGoesHiking]

It really is isn't it, this has to be my favourite stretch of the Coast to Coast

[@Mark-Creed1962]

Brilliant drone footage great weather at last loved it.

[@NickGoesHiking]

Thanks! Yeah, nice weather finally! Nice to see it from up there huh?

[@Mark-Creed1962]

@@NickGoesHiking Absolutely.

[@mifrick]

Absolutely gorgeous views, from the ground and from the drone. Thanks for sharing, Nick!

[@NickGoesHiking]

The Lake District is such a special place, I can't wait to go back again You're very welcome 😊

[@hikesaroundkyoto]

Fantastic views of the mountains and the coast. So peaceful and picturesque. Thanks for sharing.👍

[@NickGoesHiking]

You're very welcome ☺️ Thanks for taking the time to watch, glad you enjoyed it

[@DownTheRoadWithDiane]

Really good vlog and lovely scenery. I did notice your st.christopher is missing that you have on your backpack.Amazes me all that land.

[@NickGoesHiking]

Yeah, I lost it on the train 😫😭 I bought a bible to replace it, never read it entirely, plan to do just that when travelling around

[@user-TonyUK]

The first steep climb of the day and also the steepest on the C2C so far. Tony the Retired Hiker in Essex.

[@user-TonyUK]

I stopped for a brew at Nanny Catch Beck but was soon refreshed and started for Ennerdale Water. As this was my first visit to the Lake District I was looking forward to see it. 90% of my previous hike had been in the Pennines and North East of England. Tony the Retired Hiker in Essex.

[@user-TonyUK]

On my first C2C i, like you followed the left hand side of Ennerdale Water, but on my East to West C2C I opted for the other side to make a change, a little bit more of a scramble but I survived. Tony the Retired Hiker in Essex.

[@NickGoesHiking]

@user-TonyUK Hi Tony, I did that side the first time I ever visited Ennerdale, such a fun route It was during the heatwave in 2022 though and I got so burnt 😅

[@hikesome]

So cool Nick, epic shots!

[@NickGoesHiking]

Thank you 😁 Pretty proud of this one, some great shots in here, The Lake District is the perfect model

[@markshrimpton3138]

As we say in Scotland, ‘Never kill a midge because 10,000 of its relatives will turn up for the funeral’. Your uploads are what KZbin is about as far as I am concerned.

[@NickGoesHiking]

🤣 There were thousands of the little buggers, somehow I escaped with only 1 bite though, my uncle got savaged by them, he was no impressed Thank you Mark, it's been a struggle for views lately but I'm keeping at it

[@Kills4ThrillsGaming]

God I hated having to go up Dent

[@NickGoesHiking]

😅 It's easy now, just make sure you rest a couple times on the way up, it's because we always rushed in the past