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    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 4

      High Spy and Cat Bells

      October 16, 2021 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      After a good breakfast, we set out at 9.00 for a steep walk up the fell behind the hotel, passing disused slate mine tunnels, to reach High Spy at 650 metres by lunchtime. After a break for the packed lunch provided by the hotel and facing Castle Crag (290m), we continued across Maiden Moor before descending to the base of Cat Bells. Having walked to the top to get a great view of Derwentwater, with Keswick and Bassenthwaite in the distance, we descended and continued down a steep path to the shore of Derwentwater and then along to a cafe at Lingholm for tea and cake. The walk was about 14 kms. A minibus took us back to the hotel.
      The weather was dry and cloudy with mist drifting around the peak at lunchtime, followed by a glimpse of the sun in the afternoon.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 6

      Honister Slate Mine

      October 18, 2021 in England ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

      The forecast was of more rain so I didn't join the group planning to walk up at Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England at 978 metres. Only four of them went up, the rest completing a lower-level walk.
      I drove with Elizabeth to the Honister Slate Mine, the only working slate mine in England, at the top of the Honister Pass which has inclines up and down of 25%. We enjoyed a very informative tour of the mine workings, and I bought my only souvenir of the holiday, a lying-down sheep made of green slate. It would remind me of the slate, which lined many paths, the sheep, and the fact that they lie down in the rain.
      It was still drizzling in the afternoon so I stayed in the hotel reading the papers and starting a Charles Cummings spy thriller.
      I went out for a walk for an hour to the nearby hamlet of Seathwaite and back.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 7

      Cockermouth

      October 19, 2021 in England ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      It started as another wet day so, rather than walking, I drove to Cockermouth via the Honister Pass and Buttermere to visit William Wordsworth's childhood home by using my National Trust membership for the first time. The house was laid out as it would have been in the late 18th century. In a shelter in the garden, his poems were being read on a recording.
      After walking down Main Street to see the marks on buildings showing how high the floods in 2009 or 2015 had reached, I decided to drive to the coast because the sun had come out. However, shortly after leaving Cockermouth, the weather closed in and, by the time I reached St Bee's Head, I had the headlights on due to the sea fog. The blustery, drizzly conditions meant that it wasn't a day for the National Trust cliff walk to Whitehaven. So I had a soup and a roll at the beach-front cafe.
      I returned to Seatoller via Whitehaven and Keswick, and spent the afternoon in the hotel.
      Mileage: 79.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 8

      Greenup Edge and Grasmere

      October 20, 2021 in England ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

      This was the last day with the group and, fortunately, it started off dry and bright so I decided to walk.
      We were driven the short distance to Stonethwaite to start the walk to the top of Greenup Edge (620m) which was like a saddle. The first part of the walk was on the Cumbria Way and the Coast-to-Coast Path.There were a number of streams and bogs to cross. The last section before lunch was quite steep walking up a stone staircase. Once at the top, it got very windy with light rain. but the weather improved in the afternoon as we descended.
      The group split in two with some going higher and walking along a ridge before descending, and crossing Grasmere Common into Grasmere. The rest of us walked down the valley (Easedale?), reaching Grasmere by about 15.00. The walk was 13 kms long.
      Grasmere was quite busy whereas we saw few others on the walk. We had coffees, teas and cakes in a good cafe and art gallery.
      Once back at Seatoller, we said goodbye to Tom and Dwayne.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 9

      Aira Force and Ullswater

      October 21, 2021 in England ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      Ironically, the weather completely changed for the better as the rest of the group left with frost on the car and a clear blue sky in the morning with a few clouds in the afternoon.
      I drove to Ullswater via Kewwick and the A66. I hadn't realised when booking my additional six nights at Glaramara that there were no roads east of south, only west or north, from Seatoller. So I drove the windy B road to Keswick and the A66 a number of times.
      I went to the National Trust car-park (free for members) at Aira Force on the western side of Ullswater. There was a path going through the forest to the waterfall and the cascades, and it continued up the fell of Gowbarrow (480m) before descending and eventually returning to the car-park, a walk of 4 miles. There were great views of Ullswater from the top.
      Lunch was a Cornish pasty and tea at the National Trust cafe.
      I walked parallel to the road and the lake to Glencoyne Farm for a circular walk of 3 miles through a farm, up a fell, and back through a forest, and then retracing my steps back to Aira Force.
      On the way back to Keswick, I took the road to Castlerigg to see the bronze age stone circle.
      Mileage:44.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 10

      Pooley Bridge, Patterdale and Ullswater

      October 22, 2021 in England ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      Another sunny and dry day so I returned to Ullswater to do some more of the low level walks listed in a book.
      Starting in Pooley Bridge, I did a 5 mile walk along the lakeside, through a bog on to Barton Fell, and then a gradual ascent, past the Wainwright Stone overlooking the lake, past the Cockpit, a bronze age stone circle, and back to Pooley Bridge.
      After a nice smoked salmon salad for lunch at the Secret Garden, I enquired at about taking a ride on the steamer going down the lake, but the return journey was fully-booked. Instead, I drove down the side of the lake to Patterdale to do a 2 mile walk through Glenamara Park. There was a scenic cricket ground at a college near Patterdale.
      On the way back to Seatoller from Keswick, I stopped at the Bowder Stone, a massive rock left by a retreating glacier.
      Mileage: 63.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 11

      Crummock Water and Buttermere

      October 23, 2021 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      I drove over the Honister Pass to Buttermere, parking the car. I walked up Rannerdale Knotts (355m) and down Rannerdale to Crummock Water. There was a lakeside path through woods before crossing the outlet of the lake and turning back down the western side of the lake. The weather had turned for the worst with steady rain at time being driven by a blustery wind into my face. Some of the walk was through bogs, crossed by stones in places, but having to find one's own route through the undergrowth elsewhere.
      After 3.5 hours and 9 miles, I arrived back at Buttermere 10 minutes before the time ran out on the car-park ticket. Having paid for another hour, I returned to the cafe visited a week earlier, and had soup, toasted teacakes, hot chocolate and tea fro lunch before driving back to Seatoller.
      Being a weekend, the start of half-term and a low-level walk, there were more people walking than on other days. It's amazing how many people walk in the rain (Mad Dogs and Englishmen) but that's what you have to expect in The Lake District. Many people walk with their dogs; sometimes two or even three.
      There were many more people in the towns and villages than on the walking trails.
      Mileage: 12.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 13

      Ashness Bridge and Wagga Crag

      October 25, 2021 in England ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

      It was a dry and sunny morning so I drove the short distance to Ashness Bridge and parked in the National Trust car-park for free. The stone bridge is an old pack-horse bridge, just wide enough for a car to cross.
      The 4.5 mile walk started by ascending the fell and eventually reaching the top of Wagga Crag with excellent views of Keswick, Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite. The walk continued downhill through Great Wood and back to Ashness Bridge.
      I returned to Glaramara House for a soup lunch. and spent the afternoon in the lounge reading a book, the weather having turned showery with rainbows over the fells.
      Mileage: 12.      Read more

    • TravelerThe Lake District 2021
      Day 14

      Dalemain House

      October 26, 2021 in England ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

      It was another mixed day with regard to the weather.
      I drove to Keswick and then along the A66 towards Penrith, turning off on a minor road to Dalemain House and Gardens. I'd phoned the previous day and booked the 11am tour of the house. The owners still occupied part of the house but we were able to see some of the rooms, including those dating from Tudor times., as well as a room full of entries into the Marmalade Festivals.
      After walking around the ornamental gardens, I had a soup lunch in what was probably a converted barn, and then bought locally-made apple and brandy marmalade, and jars of Christmas chutney as Christmas presents.
      The afternoon was spent back at Glaramara House.
      Mileage: 50.      Read more

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