Anniversary Waltz

Have you been reading Pete Blands map Zoot. :rolleyes:

I wish i had time to do a recce, there seems to be a few route choices. Ive only ever done Fairfield and Kentmere races up in the lakes does anyone know how AW compares to them, as they re similar in length.

Whats the chances of there being somewhere to set up camp when the race is over? Ive noticed a site in Braithwaite.

Cheers.

From what I can gather it's the top of Hindscarth for the "Camp" with Al and Pudgy:p

Well if we're waiting for you WP, best make our selves comfortable :p

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Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo

NB: do you go head to the north end of the tarn to get up on to the High Spy path - I seem to remember it's a bit boggy down there? - or go round the south end and meet up with the 'orthodox route'?

And lastly, are you a borrowdale runner? :rolleyes:

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I 'go where the music takes me, where the rhythm makes me etc....:D

Can't give too much away....sorry:p

Just right of the path down Dalehead Tarn is all on grass, and pretty fast.

In the past folk have camped on the car parking field. I'm not sure if that's the case this year or not, but if you pm Wynn, I'm sure she'll let you know. Otherwise the campsite at Braithwaite (Scotgate?) is ok.

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Originally Posted by Nee Bother

I 'go where the music takes me, where the rhythm makes me etc....:D

Can't give too much away....sorry:p

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understood :)

I shouldn't need bloody tips anyway, I only did it the other day ...

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Originally Posted by sol

Have you been reading Pete Blands map Zoot. :rolleyes:
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mighta been :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Nee Bother

I take a straight line towards tarn, straight on from summit, can't recall the bearing.....gets steep:D and you need to avoid the crags.:eek:...but its good fun

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'Can't recall the bearing' and 'need to avoid the crags' make a worrying pairing of comments, NB, though probably less so than the posting a couple of years ago (for Borrowdale?) that would have led runners straight over a cliff...

If one does hit the right direct line, is it steep grass or steep rocky stuff?

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Originally Posted by Tussockface

'Can't recall the bearing' and 'need to avoid the crags' make a worrying pairing of comments, NB, though probably less so than the posting a couple of years ago (for Borrowdale?) that would have led runners straight over a cliff...

If one does hit the right direct line, is it steep grass or steep rocky stuff?

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That posting was the descent off St Sunday Crag on the Grisedale Horseshoe, TF, a real classic. Straight down Pinnacle Ridge, and yet to be bettered!!

Off Dale Head I've always swung off ESE slightly to pass the tarn on the left, as with the Borrowdale route. There are a couple of grassy spurs, the correct one has a trod at the bottom ;)

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Originally Posted by sol

Have you been reading Pete Blands map Zoot. :rolleyes:

I wish i had time to do a recce, there seems to be a few route choices. Ive only ever done Fairfield and Kentmere races up in the lakes does anyone know how AW compares to them, as they re similar in length.

Whats the chances of there being somewhere to set up camp when the race is over? Ive noticed a site in Braithwaite.

Cheers.

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Just watch you don't burn yourself out on the run out to the first climb on the track mate.
Last year it was fast.
Fastest bit of the race for me, that and the descent off catbells.
The rest was slow and painful:D