Stolly's adventures 2009

[Stolly]

1. Gisburn Forest Trail and Whelp Stone Crag

Date: 02/01/09
Distance: 10.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 950 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 38

Well I've decided to carry on with a 2009 version of stolly's running adventures........ for better or worse! (Hopefully much better).

Yesterday I forced my flu racked body to get up and at 'em and run for the first time in 10 days, feeling at long last like I'd be able to run and not die in the attempt! I didn't fancy anything too hard though so I popped over to Gisburn Forest to run the 10 mile mountain bike trail with an added swerve off to the top of Whelp Stone Crag. As expected the views from the top were fantastic:

Ingleborough on the horizon with it's head in the clouds:



Panning to the right Pen y Ghent and Fountain's Fell with the rest of Whelp Stone Crag in the foreground:



Whelp Stone trig looking the other way with Pendle behind:



Looking back into the forest from the crag with much of my route back in there somewhere:



Anyway a cracking first run of the year even though I coughed up a lung in the process!