Borrowdale Fell Race

[FellMonster]

Some numpty on the top of scarfell pike mind

Some numpty....love it ....good choice of word. I like numpty.

Borrowdale sounds like fun. I wouldn't mind a trot round myself. Starting to gte my head around Edale! AT last

[emmilou]

Some numpty....love it ....good choice of word. I like numpty.

Borrowdale sounds like fun. I wouldn't mind a trot round myself. Starting to gte my head around Edale! AT last

shall I count you in for the 23rd???

Anyone posting on this thread of course is now commiting themselves to this jolly outing

[emmilou]

Re: Borrowdale 07
Originally Posted by emmilou
RECCE - 23RD JUNE

emmilou
emmilou's friend
Swoop (knee permitting!)
WhiteAbbo
Calf (knee permitting!)
Dom
Daz H
Sunnyside up
Huwski
Always Injured
NOYH
Manhar
Slowcoach
Graeme
Holtie
Moo
Roger rabbit
Marvin
Mud?
Fellmonster?
Milli?
Iandarkpeak??
No pain no gain?
Tractorboy?



Any more for any more?

[daz h]

can someone tell me what campsite i need for the race

[alwaysinjured]

can someone tell me what campsite i need for the race

Theres a camp about 400m south of rosthwaite on the left hand side, which many use for the race.

But also people camp in the field next to the parking, or did the last time I did this.

[GeoffB]

But also people camp in the field next to the parking, or did the last time I did this.

That's where we camped last year - Friday & Saturday. There's a tap & a toilet in the farmyard you can use.

[daz h]

That's where we camped last year - Friday & Saturday. There's a tap & a toilet in the farmyard you can use.

geoff do you just turn up and ask to camp or is it pre book

[Mark Smith]

Theres a camp about 400m south of rosthwaite on the left hand side, which many use for the race.

But also people camp in the field next to the parking, or did the last time I did this.

The woman who runs that campsite 400m away is barking mad. It's also a rip off, £5 a night p.p if i recall for very basic facilities, and not nearly enough of them (loos, showers) for the amount of people there at race weekend. She also charges you if you park your car near your tent (extra fiver) even though the car park is often full and there is nowhere else to park. I asked why i coldn;t leave my car near the tent when the car park was full and her response was, "we have to think of the children". Cuckoo!

If there is anywhere else to camp then i would be happy to go there.

[Graeme]

I'm not sure if it's still there, but there was a campsite in Stonethwaite further down the valley, it's national trust and it used to be about £1.50 a night. It was well rough! You had to boil your water from the taps for drinking, ended up getting water from the stream and boiling that, and you had to take a torch if you went to the bog because there were no lights.
Cheap though.

I thought the campsite on the corner was pretty reasonable after being to places like sykeside near Brotherswater and the National Trust site in Langdale.

[GeoffB]

geoff do you just turn up and ask to camp or is it pre book

We just turned up last year Daz - it's a big field & only for the race, so there's plenty of room.

I'm not sure if it's still there, but there was a campsite in Stonethwaite further down the valley, it's national trust and it used to be about £1.50 a night. It was well rough! You had to boil your water from the taps for drinking, ended up getting water from the stream and boiling that, and you had to take a torch if you went to the bog because there were no lights.
Cheap though.

The Stonethwaite one is still there - used it a few weeks ago (Easter). Arrived at 10pm in the pitch dark, drove up the rough, stoney track thinking "This can't be right, we'll be at Sprinkling Tarn, soon" - but it was. Didn't bother boiling the water, but it is pretty basic, though. I think we paid £4, but the week before it had been £2 apparently.