During Easter week I decided to take the family on a nice walk. Two eight year olds who kept asking "daddy when are we going to cross the river" with great excitement and an 11 year old who moaned crossing the car park behind the shops in Keswick that this walk was boring and too long. 9 hours later we arrived at bus stop in Threlkeld. Ok you all know the walk I mean but most of us jog it or as much as we can.
Cutting a long and possibly boring story short, its the first time I have ever really taken real care with route finding on this leg, and the first time I have ever a) missed the trod left of Hare Crag in favour of following the path/trod onto the summit of hare Crag instaed...and also traversed too far across blencathra and hit the gatskil fell top instead of halls Fell.
Question is.... I have always dropped left (north of Hare crag and ended up wading Heather over too the Skiddaw House Track and the marker poles on GC. With the kids we waded off the summit of Hare Crag and got caught in a miriad of Heather, ditches and bogs. can you continie on the good track over the summit of HC and then head for GC rather than go left. Does the track continue?