Ian,

That's one tough leg!!!

Don't worry we don't intend to stop in the race we just thought we'd have a bit of fun and stay in the highest hotel room in the country on the recce!! Part of the plan was to do the leg in the light and the dark.

We cycled in to Ennerdale Saturday evening, dumped the bikes at the YHA and ran over Blacksail to get to the Wasdale Head Inn in time for a couple of shandies before hitting Scafell. Made the summit about 12.45am and bivvied right at the top in a howling gale. We were woken a couple of times by teams of 3 peakers and then broke camp at 5.45am and headed of down at 6.00am in sleety rain, back over Blacksail and on to the YHA where we picked up our bikes and returned to Whitehaven around 10.15am

Couple of questions :-

1 - Is there a checkpoint at the Blacksail hut?
2 - Are you free to choose your route up / down Scafell after checking in at Wasdale Head?

Any other tips would be gratefully received.