It was our last morning at Borrowdale, the forecast was for more hot weather and we didn't fancy another walk in such conditions. After packing the cars we went into Keswick for some retail therapy. Gifts were bought for friends and family and we got caught up in a procession of folk carrying a wooden cross through the town centre to the Moot Hall. Amazingly we still managed to get away from the shops without buying more kit, but not until after we'd managed to refuel ourselves first at Java and Chocolate and then at the Lakeland Pedlar Whole Food Cafe.
Narrowly avoiding a round of "obstacle golf" (I suppose this is the PC version of what we used to call "crazy golf") we returned to the car and raced off to the A66 for the long haul back home.
I suppose that a few walking stats wouldn't go amiss...
Wednesday
- Distance: 4.2 miles
- Total ascent: 1652 ft
- Wainwrights: 1 - Bessyboot 1807 ft (first ascent for all of us, first Wainwright for Millie)
Thursday
- Distance: 6.9 miles (including detour to Lonscale Fell)
- Total ascent: 2361 ft (including detour to Lonscale Fell)
- Wainwrights: 2 - Skiddaw 3053 ft (first ascent for the others, second ascent for me), Lonscale Fell 2344 ft (first ascent for me and for Geoff)
Illnesses and injuries:
- Prickly heat (Chris and Anna)
- Heel blister (me)
- Rock/face impact (Jacob, who forgot to let go of the projectile that he had intended to whang into the stream)
So, two more Wainwrights knocked off the to-do list, only 20 still to do. The Wainwrights and Routes map has been updated accordingly.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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