Extending over 33 miles through Salford, Bury and Rossendale, the trail is the largest sculpture route in the UK connecting local heritage, the landscape and communities. The trail also links a host of cultural attractions from art galleries and museums to the East Lancashire Railway.
The trail features over 70 artworks by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists.
This is cool! The two ladies started on the same route at approximately the same time, but from different places - who would complete the route first?
"I’m very surprised we seem to be the first to have done a “race” style FKT, it certainly added a fun element to the attempt." - SARAH
"It was good to know Sarah was out there - a little different because it added pressure, but helpful." - ALYSSA
The 'Beast Coast' sometimes doesn't get enough attention, and the two women describe what makes it special ... and hard.
After I completed Holy Nolans in 2018, Andrea Sansone and I wanted to try something something really big that surprisingly hadn't ever been done before (as far as we could tell). Over the years I have dreamed of setting a Centennial peaks record in Colorado, and in scouting for that record I have found that a really cool subset of routes is traversing entire ranges in Colorado and climbing all of not just the 14ers in the range, but the Centennial 13ers.
More than 12,000 years ago, an immense flow of glacial ice sculpted a landscape of remarkable beauty across Wisconsin. As the glacier retreated, it left behind a variety of unique landscape features. These glacial remnants are now considered among the world’s finest examples of how continental glaciation sculpts our planet.