Sunderland - Manchester
274km land/river/canal
Equipment list
Sleeping
- Sleeping bag
- Bivy bag
- Sleeping mat
- 3 x 5 treated canvas
Cooking/food
- 2 small pans
- metal grid
- Knife
- Small axe
- 2 bowls
- 1kg Rice
- 1kg Lentils
- 100ml olive oil
- 1kg porridge
- 1kg Peanut butter
(Fresh veg will be bought along the way)
Books
- Werner Herzog Of Walking in Ice
- Colins gem SAS survival guide
- Henry David Thoreau Where I lived and What I Lived For
- Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does A Man Need?
- Joy Williams The Visiting Privilege
- Emily Dickinson The complete poems of Emily Dickinson
Other
- Map
- Walking boots
- Suit trousers
- Suit jacket
- 3 pairs of socks (Black)
- 3 pairs of underpants (black)
- needle/ thread
- 3 Pilot G-TEC-C4 0.4 Pens (black)
- 5 pencils
- 2 small notebooks
- pencil sharpener
- Film camera
- 5 roles of black and white film iso 100
- 10m rope
- Log book
Breakdown of the journey:
1. 30km walking/cycling along costal path from house in Sunderland to the mouth of the River Tees.
2. 50km rowing upstream the river Tees to Dalton on Tees.
3. 13km walking/cycling from Dalton on Tees along minor roads to Lowfield lane, where I join the River Swale.
4. 35km downstream the River Swale to Lower Dunsforth where the river integrates into the canal system.
5. 146km along the canals to Manchester Oxford road
6. 0.48km walk from canal to studio.
