🥾Day 6/50 Walking the @walescoastpath
-Llwybr Arfordir Cymru 🏴
📍Supported by Cicerone @ciceronePress
ℹ️Stats
Date: Sunday 24th April
Weather: sunny ☀️ & windy 🌬
From: Garth
Start time: 9.24am
To: past Pentir
End time: 6.06pm
Accommodation: wild camping 🏕
Terrain: A mixture of low-level roads, tracks and paths. Some parts required careful route finding.
🥾Miles: 14 miles
🦶Steps: 31,214
🏔 Ascent:350 m
📚Guidebook Info: Section 2 Isle of Anglesey
Stage:6 Bangor to Glan-yr-afon
Pages: 71 -75
Total miles on the WCP: 92/870
💰Costs: £6 Big wheel ride!
Food: £5.25 carrot cake & drink, £4.75 resupply ham & salad sandwich and a sausage roll!
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 8/10
Fatigue: 1/10
Ease of terrain: 2/10
Highlights: going on the big wheel and getting great views over Beaumaris and across the Menai Strait.
Challenges: windy crossing the Menai bridge, walking 2k along a pebbly beach
Body: I was quite concerned as I was in quite a bit of pain the night before especially with my left calf and I was slightly worried about how it was going to be in the morning - but actually it was fine - it’s like my body has just adapted and is like yeah this is what we are doing today - we are walking 🥾
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Watch the vlog here: Anglesey is beautiful! Wales Coast Path 6/50
🥾Day 7/50 Walking the @walescoastpath
-Llwybr Arfordir Cymru 🏴
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ℹ️Stats
Date: Monday 25th April
Weather: windy 🌬 & sunny
From: Pentir
Start time: 8.36am
To: Penrhyn Glas
End time: 9.09pm - tent set up 9.20pm
Accommodation: wild camping 🏕
Terrain: Hill paths, then low level coast paths subject to tidal flooding. Low cliff paths and field paths later.
🥾Miles: 19
🦶Steps: 43,758
🏔 Ascent: 400m
📚Guidebook Info:
Stage:7 & the start of 8
Pages: 75 - 82
Total miles on the WCP: 112/870* Approx
💰Food: £24.75 - chicken, 2x avocado, wraps, banana, Nutella, boiled eggs, 2x innocent smoothies, white chocolate cookies, tangerines, crisps, baby bell cheese.
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 6/10
Fatigue: 3/10
Ease of terrain: 3 /10
Highlights - Be able to do my resupply (only 7 mins off trail), stunning views of the coast, feeling like I’m making a lot of progress
Challenges - A much longer day today - I started looking for somewhere to wild camp for 5:30 pm I was still walking at 9 o’clock as there was no where which was suitable. It was a long time to be on my feet. I was super pleased to find some flat ground and get my tent set up.
Crossing Red Wharf Bay - I took the direct route - straight across. I ended up needing to take my shoes off - then there was a very muddy section. My feet where a muddy mess by the end!!
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Watch the vlog here: Decompressing in nature! Wales Coast Path 7/50
🥾Day 8/50 Walking the @walescoastpath
-Llwybr Arfordir Cymru 🏴
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ℹ️Stats
Date: Tuesday 26th April
Weather: windy 🌬 & sunny ☀️
From: Penrhyn Glas
Start time: 6.28am
To: Cemaes
End time: 4pm ish
Accommodation: tent - campsite
Terrain: low cliff paths, headlands and bays + roads (I took a detour - not on purpose!)
🥾Miles: 12miles ish
🦶Steps: 22,549
🏔 Ascent:550m
📚Guidebook Info:
Stage: 8
Pages: 83 - 84
Total miles on the WCP: 125/870
💰Costs: £10 campsite
£14.50 extra battery pack - waste of money. Didn’t really charge my phone.
Drinks: 2x chocolate £5.45, coke & crisps £3.80. Both times it was to charge my electronics- which wasn’t working as I need a new iPhone cable (I’ve borrowed one from the campsite for tonight)
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 5/10 - The stress of trying to get my phone charged really ruined a lot of today.
Fatigue: 3/10 I slept okay but I was awake really early to start hiking around 6.30ish
Ease of terrain: 4/10 - I ended up going off trail quite a bit and was on roads instead of the coast
Highlights: getting to the campsite around 4 pm-ish & being able to borrow an iPhone charger. having electricity in the tent so I can charge my battery pack all night and having amazing bathrooms to use.
Challenges: Dead battery pack - dead iPhone - iPhone charging wire not working - buying an extra battery pack which didn’t work 😫
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Watch the vlog here: I'm not having a good day! Wales Coast Path 8/50
🥾Day 9/50 Walking the @walescoastpath
-Llwybr Arfordir Cymru 🏴
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ℹ️Stats
Date: Wednesday 27th April
Weather: windy 🌬 and sunny ☀️
From: Cemaes
Start time: 9.36am
To: Penrhyn Bay
End time: 5.30 ish
Accommodation: wild camp ⛺️
Terrain: A long and remote stage. Mostly low cliff paths, with occasional rugged and steep stretches. Some beach walking, farm tracks and field paths.
🥾Miles: 14
🦶Steps: 29,678
🏔 Ascent:400m
📚Guidebook Info:
Stage: 9
Pages: 85 -89
Total miles on the WCP: 140/870
💰Costs: £0
Food resupply £11.85 - chicken, innocently smoothies, crunchies, chocolate biscuits, baked beans, cheese x2, crisps x2,
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 8/10 - great day! Plus all my gear is charged and I have a wire to charge my iPhone!! 🙏
Fatigue: 2/10 - feeling good!!
Ease of terrain: 4/10 - quite a few ups and downs, very remote section. But I liked it!
Highlights - incredible coastal views 👀
Challenges: 🐄🐄🐄 walking through fields of cows. I’ve never seen so many cows in one field and they were everywhere! 🐄🐄🐄
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Watch the vlog here: I'm so NOT ok with cows! Wales Coast Path 9/50
🥾Day 10/50 Walking the @walescoastpath
-Llwybr Arfordir Cymru 🏴
📍Supported by Cicerone @ciceronePress
ℹ️Stats
Date: Thursday 28th
Weather: windy - not as bright today. A lot more cloud cover. Wore my down jacket quite a bit in the morning.
From: Penrhyn Bay
Start time: 6.16am
To: Ty Mawr - campsite
End time: 3.36 pm
Accommodation: tent in a campsite 🏕
Terrain: Easy, low-level coastal paths and roads to Holyhead. Steep and rugged hill-walking over Holyhead Mountain.
🥾Miles: 19 miles
🦶Steps: 41,015
🏔 Ascent: 400m
📚Guidebook Info:
Stage: end of stage 9 and stage 10
Pages: 90 - 95
Total miles on the WCP: 157/870
💰Costs: £10 camping
Food: £24.09 - Co-op in Holyhead. Chicken, 2x avocado, wraps, blueberries, innocent smoothie - large, 2x banana, 3x protein flapjacks, chocolate bars (galaxy), wine gums, baby bell cheese, peanuts. Hand sanitizer & ibuprofen.
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 7/10 - did some great filming. I hope the shots come out.
Fatigue: 3/10 - feeling good even with the super early start
Ease of terrain: 3.5/10 - no issues a little bit of climbing to get to south stack.
Highlights - views of south stack, getting the camp site early.
Challenges - navigating around Holyhead Mountain- lots of tracks, but no signs (they are removed by someone whenever they are put up - very frustrating- I have a little rant on the vlog!) therefore Its not easy to figure out which way to go!
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Watch the vlog here: Talking of gluttony, Wales Coast Path 10/50
Read more of my journey here: Day 11-15: Walking the Wales Coast Path
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