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Walking Wainwright's Coast to Coast with a dog?
Q. Hi.
I am thinking of taking my dog as company on my summer holiday to do the Coast to Coast walk.
Has anyone done this successfully and would anyone recommend it. She is quite agile and very well behaved.
I will be hoping to do a mixture of camping and B & B's (mostly camping!)
Thank you.
Dawn Cawthorne, Merseyside
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A. It's perfectly possible to do the coast to coast with a dog. When I did it, one of our group had a dog with them. We did it camping all the way, but your options might be more limited if you want other accommodation. The YHA will not accept dogs for example. I think you need a pretty fit dog, used to lots of walking. Sore paws become a definite issue towards the end of the walk. You will get people accusing you of cruelty too!
James Carter,
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A. There shall be two of us doing the C2C this summer with 2 boarder collies. Can you remember where the dog friendly camp sights were?
Graeme Hately, Awsworth
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NB. Wild Camping and The Law in England, Scotland and Wales.
Tents cannot be pitched just anywhere because every piece of Britain is owned by some individual or some organisation and according to the strict letter of the law permission must be obtained prior to pitching tent and camping.
In practice however, this is often impractical and wild camping is usually tolerated in the more remote areas - typically, more than half a day's walk from an official campsite or other accommodation providing you:
- Keep groups small
- Camp as unobtrusively as possible
- Leave camp as you found it
- Remove all litter (even other people's)
- Carry out everything you carried in
- Carry out tampons and sanitary towels (burying them doesn't work as animals dig them up again)
- Choose a dry pitch rather than digging drainage ditches around a tent or moving boulders
- Toilet duties should be performed 30m (100ft) from water and the results buried using a trowel
- At all time, help preserve the environment
- And if you are in any doubt about what you're doing, find out more
In Scotland, the current access legislation (which came into effect in early 2005) is explicit about your right to wild camp on hill land.
There appears to be an exception to this with respect to camping in Dartmoor National Park where the right to wild camping is actually enshrined in the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 amendment Dartmoor Commons Act, 1985 - see Wild Camping in the UK for more details.
For the definitive answer with respect to wild camping in Scotland see the answer supplied by the Scottish Natural Heritage
NB. go4awalk.com cannot offer any advice on suitable locations for wild camping.
Hope this helps
Mike (Editor)
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