Jon Bentley (Canoe)

Completed: 6 September 2023

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Jon Bentley
Canoe
  • Start date: 19 July 2023
  • Age When Completed: 50
  • Direction Walked: South to North

General Comments

Embrace the Sux; once you overcome this, you will enjoy the walk, no matter what happens.

Food/Supplies Comments

Yes, we could resupply in towns. Just plan to be in towns on weekdays as info centres and some shops are closed or close early on the weekends.

Favourite Section

The end, when walking, was walking, and the habits and patterns come from countless days of routine.

Highlights

Spending 35 nights alone and one stretch of 4 days (3 nights) of not seeing anybody, not even a car in the distance.

Personal Reactions

I so long to still be out there walking.

Your Best Equipment

What I had was all good.

Your Worst Equipment

Any were weeded out before I started.

Advice for Others

Ignore the stories/rumours, such as huts overrun with mice and waste-deep water; just embrace the hike. Remember that fishing stories about the one that got away, well these are the same, as the story changes with each person who tells it.