Pennine Way enthusiasts (or planners) might be amused to see this diagram, which I painstakingly drew for my book. It shows all the places on the trail where I’ve slept. Using the word ‘sleep’ loosely.

Only three of my five PW completions (so far) are exhaustively (or exhaustingly) described on here, June 2016, October 2016 and August 2018. When I first walked the trail in April 1999 I don’t think trail blogging had been invented and I didn’t carry a camera, they still used film and mine was enormously heavy.

In a radical departure, I’ve described my fifth completion in an actual book (there should be a tasteful commercial to the side of or below this post) of photos, reminiscences (some lifted from my blogs) and poems. It’s available on Amazon in all territories including the USA, in paperback or Kindle (although as it’s full of colour photos it doesn’t really work properly on old-school black & white Kindles). The poems were mostly written on the trail, but came out as fairly general-purpose meditations on hiking life. It’s been suggested my book would make a nice seasonal gift for any trail-hiking enthusiast although, as always when you spend weeks working on something, I’m personally sick of the sight of it. Merry Christmas!