Cumbrian Traverse

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Originally Posted by MOUNTAIN MAN

Can you clarify the email address on the gofar page is still valid. I and some others have had no response using it.

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I am thinking of doing this next week I notice the email address is tiscali.co.uk which as been taken over with talktalk try [email protected]

Cumbria Traverse - Has anyone managed to sort public transport options from south to north or visa versa.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Cumbria Traverse - Has anyone managed to sort public transport options from south to north or visa versa.

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I certainly haven't - it'd be a long an complicated journey that's for sure. You'd have to walk into or out of Broughton Mills unless you got a taxi from Broughton (assuming Broughton's got a taxi).

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Originally Posted by Splatcher

I certainly haven't - it'd be a long an complicated journey that's for sure. You'd have to walk into or out of Broughton Mills unless you got a taxi from Broughton (assuming Broughton's got a taxi).

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At a guess (I haven't ever had to do this): Bus from Keswick to Kendal; train from Kendal to Lancaster (there's no main line stop at Carnforth any more); train from Lancaster to Barrow; train from Barrow to Foxfield. Then you need to walk or arrange a taxi. The last train leg might be done in reverse from somewhere like Whitehaven to Foxfield so you'd just need to get to Whitehaven.

I've no idea if any of the above actually link up and it might take you longer than the traverse itself.

I've just looked at bus timetables
and looks like there's a 55 leaves Keswick at 8:39am
to Ambleside for 9:15
then an X33 from Ambleside at 9:26am which goes through Coniston to Broughton In Furness (and onwards to Ravenglass), which reaches a stop called "Road To Woodland" (which looks like a short walk to Broughton Mills) at 10:14am
this looks fairly doable
am I missing something?

Tried that email address but got ' rejected by the recipient domain'

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Originally Posted by dfh

Tried that email address but got ' rejected by the recipient domain'

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I can say that I have both sent to and received emails from Dick using [email protected] in recent times.

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

I've just looked at bus timetables
and looks like there's a 55 leaves Keswick at 8:39am
to Ambleside for 9:15
then an X33 from Ambleside at 9:26am which goes through Coniston to Broughton In Furness (and onwards to Ravenglass), which reaches a stop called "Road To Woodland" (which looks like a short walk to Broughton Mills) at 10:14am
this looks fairly doable
am I missing something?

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Great detective work Daz. I have been pondering for ages how to put this together by bus. I always looked at the options for catching the bus back from keswick having finished the route, but nothing seemed to work. I think I found a way of getting to Coniston or perhaps Torver at best but meant a very early start for the run.

this week end DPers GreenFlash(Willy) and Lewis bivvied at the start and then walked the CW on Saturday. another good effort in bad weather.

So is there a better way to the first top than Wainwright talks about in his book - which is go past hovel knott on the ulpha track before turning right? It is extra distance.

I reccied it on the way to a climbing club meet last w/e - and tried a direct route up (dire, seriously deep bracken, and wet) - and then tried coming down east of hovel knott , similar! - Did I miss anything? Theres a stream which climbs to a point 400m north of great stickle from which a back track could be made, but it does not seem shorter than wainwrights route.

Coming to which , do you just reckon the top of caw from the closest point on the footpath where it enters a stream reentrant? Or is it more subtle than that?

BTW - respect to the lakeland hundred ers. I saw a lot of them trotting past in wasdale ....and the weather was not the nicest that w/e