{"id":3027,"date":"2012-04-16T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2012-04-16T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:51:25","slug":"day-6-on-the-south-west-coast-path-521-miles-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 on the South West Coast Path – 521 miles to go."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Outdoor<\/a>A bit of a slow and tiring walk today especially that I only covered 10 miles \ud83d\ude41 The hills are now very short and very steep with quite a few having steps. I find the steps really tiring as they are rarely ever made with a decent going\/riser ratio<\/a> (The stair going to riser ratio (2R + G) within the range of 550 – 700 assists to promote a suitable gait pattern) plus they are very uneven, both things make them much harder to negotiate than proper steps or even a simple mud\/grass slope.<\/p>\n

I’ve yet to bump into any other long distance walkers most I’ve met are just doing small circular walks, the lady in the couple I met today just so reminded me of Annette Crosbie<\/a>,but then I do have\u00a0Prosopagnosia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I finally arrived at the Hartland Quay Hotel <\/a>which is the end of Section 12 in The Guide, the next section to Bude is labelled Severe and takes 8.5 hours, no\u00a0accommodation\u00a0seems to be on the route so I thought it wise to make it a short day and stop. They gave me room 7 which has a lovely Bay window looking towards Lundy<\/a>. It has BS WiFi as can only be expected in our third world country, who would have thought that it could be as chronic. Even though the fibre optic TAT 14<\/a> running at 1.87Tera bits comes ashore about 10 miles from here at Widemouth Bay! This area should have the worlds fastest broadband!!<\/p>\n

Oh, and the wretched Canon D550 has started playing up again, flash not popping up and the lens having a nervous twitch trying to focus itself even when not requested plus the screen not allowing access to the main menu’s. Maybe SLRs & walking & me is not a good combo.<\/p>\n

Today’s stats are up in my google doc here<\/a>\u00a0and pics on Google+ here<\/a>\u00a0and here i sthe Everytrail:
\nThe South West Coast Path – Clovelly to Hartland Quay at EveryTrail<\/a>
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