🧙♂️ WHAT DO YOU DO in the Lakes when it’s sunny? Go walking. And when it’s pouring?
GO WALKING FASTER! Well, when you can only come back here two or three times a year like me, you do.
And I’m back from Paris for a couple of weeks of working and walking and English wet. My Eurostar was four hours late, including a trip back to Paris from just outside the Channel tunnel due to a faulty engine.
Then Storm Babet meant that the train from Euston up to Penrith… stopped at Preston and I had to spend an expensively unexpected night in Windermere instead of Keswick. You don’t want to know about that, though. You want to know what new fells I’m planning on flattening tomorrow, come shine… or even rain.
I’m looking to tick off two or three biggies – for me at least – as quickly as possible. So, leaving from Keswick on the 77A bus I’m going to head into the Newlands Valley in the direction of… can you guess?
Last year, on a pretty soggy day, I made it across Catbells and Maiden Moor all the way to High Spy before calling it a day. I seem to do Catbells every time I come up here with new folks and I’ll be happy to breeze by it down below this time on my way to… Hindscarth via Scope End, followed by a trip northwest to Robinson, doubling back southeast to Dale Head and then down via Hindscarth again whence I came in Little Town and home to Keswick and warmth and wetlessness!
That’s all pipe dreams, though, until tomorrow evening, when I can come clean and tell you if I did it or not. I’m going for an early start so I don’t have any worries about it getting dark before I’m done, so… see at the bottom!
Happy hiking!
The Laggard of Lakeland 🌄
🧭 (Lakeland Chronicles No.34)
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