Just a quick one, which is the best way to Dunmail raise from Wasdale, is it via Keswick/Hardknott pass or the Duddon Valley?
Just a quick one, which is the best way to Dunmail raise from Wasdale, is it via Keswick/Hardknott pass or the Duddon Valley?
Keswick/Hardknott pass ? methinks you've got things mixed up!
The southern route would be via Eskdale Green, Birker Fell, Duddon Bridge, Broughton Mills, Torver, Coniston, Ambleside, Dunmail.
The northern route would be via Gosforth, Workington, Cockermouth, Keswick.
On balance I'd go the northern way as the roads are much better.
Bob
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Without me you'd be one place nearer the back
You can get from Wasdale to Dunmail via upper Eskdale, Hardknott and Wrynose passes, through Little Langdale and Elterwater then to Dunmail via Ambleside.
A big support vehicle might prefer one of Bob's other more amenable options though, as might any passengers.
The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.
In 26 years of being involved with BG support, with a multitude of different drivers, access to and from Wasdale ( i.e. Dunmail to Wasdale then Wasdale to Honister - doing it BG's way ) it's always been the northern route .... and that can get a bit 'tight' at certain times of day in the height of summer with a lot of tourists travelling at 'rubber-necking' speeds. I'd hate to think how snarled up you could get 'going over the passes'!! Correction, only once .... 13 years ago, on a Clayton counter-clockwise round with a mid-night start, we left Wasdale around 7.30 a.m. and went over the passes (Hardknott, Wrynose & Redbank); lost the exhaust system going over Hardknott!!
Cheers guys, sorry Bob I meant Hardknott or Keswick or Duddon valley!, done all 3 in the past, was looking at the quickest..