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)
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Books
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- 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
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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
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Breakdown of the journey:
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1. 30km walking/cycling along costal path from house in Sunderland to the mouth of the River Tees.
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2. 50km rowing upstream the river Tees to Dalton on Tees.
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3. 13km walking/cycling from Dalton on Tees along minor roads to Lowfield lane, where I join the River Swale.
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4. 35km downstream the River Swale to Lower Dunsforth where the river integrates into the canal system.
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5. 146km along the canals to Manchester Oxford road
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6. 0.48km walk from canal to studio.
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