Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
12 mile, 1000ft, 3:35 walk today. The quietest route I've found yet. Maybe the colder temperature put some off.

If any of you have done the old Tockholes Gala race, you'll know the last little climb out of Roddlesworth up a field.
So we passed through the gate to enter the field, walked up the 200 yards or so to the swing gate and it had a cable tie securing it, so hopped over the low bit at the side, walked the 20 yards across open paddock to the gate and which was chained. Hopped over as it would have been a bit of a detour back.
On the opposite side of the gate we saw a sign asking us not to use this section of path as a resident in the farmhouse 20m away from the path is in an "at risk" category.

Had they put a sign at the other side at the exit of the woods to properly block of the section, we could have taken a wider loop round. It seems odd only to put a sign at one end of the section.

I won't try that way again now I know of course.
9.43 miles, 2,890 ft, 2.22 - over/around Loughrigg, all on safe paths at a steady jog or walking. Several kissing gates, two stiles, and some gates with latches - all manageable without touching with my hands/gloves. No signs yet; no gates tied closed, nor tied open for that matter. Once off the roads virtually no people at all. 2 metre rule was easy to stick to, though ideally it is more than that - and if anybody coughed/sneezed/spat I would be 4 minute miling out of there.