100 mile walkies

I’ve not been sleeping at all well of late, so….

Tomorrow morning I’ll be setting out to walk from Rivington in Lancashire to, er, Rivington in Lancashire – a distance of 100 miles.

The route I’ll be following is that of next year’s LDWA 100 event, The Red Rose 100. The Plan (I love A Plan!) is for me to walk the route in about 6 days, stealth / wild camping en-route.

Those taking part in the actual event itself next May will have to complete the route in 48 hours. I’m taking the easy option.

The route:

 That’s Rivington at the bottom, where the red blob is. I’ll be going widdershins.

If anybody fancies coming along, a GPX file can be found on Viewranger here. If the link doesn’t work just go on Viewranger and search for ‘LDWA Red Rose 100’. I’ll be checking my emails as and when I can – my email address can be found somewhere on the right of this page.

I’m intending doing 17 – 20 miles a day, camping where I can – the spreadsheet below is my feeble attempt at getting as organised as Gayle. I think I’ve very successfully failed!

CP No	Camp	Location	Map Ref	Mileage
1		Slipper Low car park	SD664203	8.5
2		St Francis Church Hall, Feniscliffe	SD662268	16
	Stealth camp	Witton Country Park	SD657277	17
	Scout campsite	Bowley CS	SD734339	25.5
3		Whalley Village Hall	SD734361	27
	Stealth camp	Fellwood	SD812398	34
4		Barley Village Hall	SD822402	35
5		Downham Village Hall	SD787440	40
	YHA camping barn	West Lane Farmhouse, Downham	SD795445	41
	BPC campsite	Fields House Farm	SD766456	43
6		Bolton-by-Bowland	SD785493	44
7		Tosside Community Hall	SD769560	49
	Hartley's Farm CS	Tosside	SD769555	49
8		Slaidburn Village Hall	SD713523	56
	YHA	Slaidburn YHA	SD711523	56
9		Dunsop Bridge Village Hall	SD657501	61
	Wild camp	E of Totridge	SD642488	63.5
10		Chipping Village Hall	SD621432	68
	YHA camping barn	Clark House Farm	SD616435	68
	BPC campsite	Lower Core Farm	SD587439
11		Hurst Green Memorial Hall	SD684382	76
	BPC campsite	Lower Alston Farm, Ribchester	SD649349	80
12		Mellor Brook Community Centre	SD641312	84
13		Hoghton Village Hall	SD614264	89
	Stealth camp	Leeds Liverpool Canal towpath, Riley Green	SD624251	90
14		St Lukes Church Hall, Brinscall	SD629214	94

I hope this will help my sleep pattern. I’ll be back in a week.