Arrived wet and tired to the Fox and Hounds B&B and had a pint of ale in my hands within five minutes.  As Tony, my new hiking friend would say “The first one never hit the sides”.  One very important lesson learned in our first day of hiking.  This is Wainwright’s C2C path, not trail.  I think of a trail as a fairly flat manicured walkway.  We are embarking on something completely different.  The majority of the 192 miles across England will be on 16” rutted out pathways filled with mud, sheep/cattle manure, smooth and sharp boulders, tree roots and running water.  This is all through mountains, valleys, pastures, fells (hills), moors, dales and bogs.