Does anyone know Cornwall
Mar. 21st, 2005 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackHow crazy would it be, over one of the May bank holidays, to walk around the end of Cornwall from Penzance to St Ives?
It looks about 60km, so doing it over two days breaking at Lands End YHA should be possible, unless the terrain is hopelessly rough. I'm imagining it'll be like the cliffs at Whitby, so a fair amount of up and down where rivers come in, but not difficult underfoot. If anyone's been there and knows that I'll need disabusing and that consecutive 30km days over such territory would tire Hercules, or that May in Cornwall is noted for its cataclysmic downpours / plagues of carnivorous ladybirds, please tell me before I generate a Nicoll Moment.
The other obvious trip from Penzance is to the Scilly Isles; there are probably people who've tried both means of transport here, is going by helicopter likely to be enough more fun than going by tiny propeller plane to be worth paying £150 rather than £90 for the return trip?
In fact, is anyone reading this also mad enough to want to spend a perfectly good bank holiday in tiring walks, with me, around large, attractive lumps of granite surrounded by cold, attractive seas, at the region the Phoenicians probably thought to be the thankfully staniferous far end of the Earth?
It looks about 60km, so doing it over two days breaking at Lands End YHA should be possible, unless the terrain is hopelessly rough. I'm imagining it'll be like the cliffs at Whitby, so a fair amount of up and down where rivers come in, but not difficult underfoot. If anyone's been there and knows that I'll need disabusing and that consecutive 30km days over such territory would tire Hercules, or that May in Cornwall is noted for its cataclysmic downpours / plagues of carnivorous ladybirds, please tell me before I generate a Nicoll Moment.
The other obvious trip from Penzance is to the Scilly Isles; there are probably people who've tried both means of transport here, is going by helicopter likely to be enough more fun than going by tiny propeller plane to be worth paying £150 rather than £90 for the return trip?
In fact, is anyone reading this also mad enough to want to spend a perfectly good bank holiday in tiring walks, with me, around large, attractive lumps of granite surrounded by cold, attractive seas, at the region the Phoenicians probably thought to be the thankfully staniferous far end of the Earth?
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Date: 2005-03-22 09:33 am (UTC)The terrain between St Ives and Pendeen is really quite hard going (though well worth it); the SWCPA say, "the path is often rough and rocky, the terrain is severe and in places after rain surprisingly boggy; few will manage 2 miles (3 km) an hour; in other words it may take longer than you think." There's also basically no civilisation on the coast between St Ives and Pendeen Watch lighthouse. I've not been to Whitby, so I can't comment on how it compares, unfortunately.
My suggestion would be to do the walk in the other direction, and cut it a bit short, so doing St Ives to Pendeen or Trewellard (I'd recommend the Trewellard Arms in the latter) including going round the headland, then from there to Porthcurno the next day, and catching the bus back to Penzance. The bus basically goes through all the villages along the coast from Penzance to Land's End, which ought to be useful. I don't remember the stretch after Porthcurno being anything particularly special.
On a more positive point, the weather in May should be fine, though perhaps a little warm.