I tried last year to get some friends together to do the LWW, but apart from the normal excuses it was down to me on my own. So here i am again a year later still wanting to do the walk and am resigned to going for a solo. I just need to know - apart from going there and back in 48 how can i get back, i will do it unsupported so how much kit how much water, where if anywhere can if ill up, i seem to remember there is nowhere from when i did the walk 15 years ago.
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 Andrew, we are doing an OM LWW on 15 th Oct if you want to join us.
Getting back on public transport is a nightmare especaly when you are so tired, best bet is to get a lift from a friend willing to pick you up. Water is a problem, there is a Cafe at Careleton bank but nothing after that but if you come with us we are having a support car. I should say that this walk in October will be at a sensible pace to that of the slowest walker so If you are wanting to shoot across and get a good time then this is not the group for you but otherwise we would be glad to have you with us.
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 Like Jules says - getting back on public transport is a nightmare. I'm very keen for walkers to use public transport - but it would take you four buses to get from Ravenscar to Osmotherley and you'd need to be very sure that they'd all tie together to complete the journey. If you have to do it that way, then I'd recommend that you parked a car at Ravenscar, then did the bus journey to Osmotherley, and maybe even include some resting time at Osmotherley before starting the LWW. That way, all you're doing is walking back to the car.
There's not much water along the way, and what little is in the streams has an unpleasantly boggy taste. Apart from the cafe at Carlton Bank, the possibility of a snack van near Clay Bank, and the Lion Inn at Blakey, there's nothing near the route, but of course, that's one of its great joys!
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I would not recomend going anywhere near the Lion Inn, it adds 2 miles to the route and the temptation to have a pint is just too much and by the time you have finished the pint your legs have siezed up solid.
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Then of course you might as well have another one to help them loosen up and then , oh dear, the Lion has been the ruin of many a crossing.
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They should fit out those country pubs with those conveyor-belt walking machines at the bar - then you can keep your legs moving while drinking! I know what you mean though... but if it was a choice between 20 more waterless miles or a detour to the Lion Inn, I know which one I'd take!
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 The answer is to take a second platy, and then you can keep walking while enjoying your pint.
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 An esteemed stroke of genius there Darren, must try that some time
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a spare platy, great idea mine is a 2 litre model so four pints will fit nicely.
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Four pints will not fit into a 2 litre platy.
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Way OT, but is the Lyke Wake Walk less popular than it once was? When I did it in 1976 there seemed to be much more general public awareness of the walk and the Double Coffin Dodgers, or whatever the people who do the double traverse are called.
Personally, I can't imagine anyone wanting to do the thing more than once. Apart from suffering a lot, because I did it just after my finals at University and going to a party the night before, it must rate as one of the most boring walks I have done.
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 "Way OT, but is the Lyke Wake Walk less popular than it once was? When I did it in 1976 there seemed to be much more general public awareness of the walk and the Double Coffin Dodgers, or whatever the people who do the double traverse are called."
When I was a teenager in Scarborough most people did it while they were at school in huge organised sponsored walks during June and July. The erosion was horrendous and a number of large moorland fires added to the problem. There seemed to be a conscious effort by the NP to put a stop to these events and the crowds gradually disappeared. Whilst I can understand anybody finding the organised forced marches tedious I have done it since with friends and found it enjoyable. It is, however, still 40 miles in a long day and should not be underestimated.
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Okay, aside from my little one-liner above about the platypus, what brought me here is that I am planning on doing the Lyke Wake Walk in July. I did it once before, as a teenager, supported with checkpoints. Clearly as you say, it is not to be underestimated, particularly as we are now intending to do it unsupported, but I am hoping that a few recent long walks will help prepare for it (including an unsupported 24-miler in the Black Mountains and a supported 40-miler in lowland rolling hills). I would also like to respond to the above pessimistic comments regarding public transport. These seem to be based very much on the assumption that you would try to travel from the end point back round to the start point, and to do so on the day of the walk itself. It is not necessary to do this. We are intending instead to stay in youth hostels at each end (Osmotherley and Boggle Hole), and will take public transport from home (southern England) to the start, and back from the end, for which the bus times seem perfectly adequate. Boggle Hole in fact adds an extra 2 miles at the end compared to the usual end point, but anyway I'll be saving 2 miles in the middle compared to last time by cutting out the Lion Inn (a shortcut which wasn't allowed before the CRoW Act came in). Osmotherley is accessible by bus from Northallerton station (times) and Boggle Hole is close to buses between Middlesborough and Scarborough (times) although in fact we are planning instead on doing a 13-mile walk along the coast path (part of the Cleveland Way) from Boggle Hole to Scarborough. I am not fanatical about public transport, and will happily go away by car when it suits better, but on this occasion leaving the car at home seems the more convenient option.
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.jpg) Jules I live in Stockton so not far off the Ny moors and should be around 15th October weekend .If there is anything I can do to help let me know.
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