Borrowdale Fell Race

[owmeknee]

can anyone turn up for this recce your all doing ?

[daz h]

can anyone turn up for this recce your all doing ?

yes
fell shoes, kit, 3quid for the car park, and away we go

[alwaysinjured]

shhhshhh! no is was just doing a backwards wasdale recce - late!

as you know and I have stated on here I'm not doing the borrowdale race and I'm definatly not doing the dalehead section today either!

AND I'm not competition for emmi - we are just one big happy family and its not a race! (Ps may see you next week at the 'scafell hotel', please note spelling - just incase anyone is trying to look it up in thier sat nav!!!)

Take a look at the wasdale thread, and you will see that a runner on wasdale went down the corridor route.... only to discover that he was in the wrong place when he got to sty head.

Now that would have been roughly 40 mins before daleside was seen on gable...

Bet I know who that runner saw in the mist, and followed.........so did anyone zoom past daley?

[Daleside]

Take a look at the wasdale thread, and you will see that a runner on wasdale went down the corridor route.... only to discover that he was in the wrong place when he got to sty head.

Now that would have been roughly 40 mins before daleside was seen on gable...

Bet I know who that runner saw in the mist, and followed.........so did anyone zoom past daley?

I cant believe you are accusing me of sending someone off course!!! -ME ! - I was sporting tousers, a jumper and tea cosy on Saturday - no one is likely to mistake me for a proper wasdale runner like you guys in shorts and numbers!
(also we came up from seathwaite up to sty head direct up the sty head pass way (not the borrowdale route) so unless he came off gable and just did a comlete 180 and followed us back up it - not guilty! - - I did read that on the thread and thought poor fella) may be he thought - well while I'm here - I'll just check these scree runs (A,B and C!) and these lines off the corridor route I've heard about for the borrowdale!! its so difficult to get a weekend away in the lakes you see!

[emmilou]

I cant believe you are accusing me of sending someone off course!!! -ME ! - I was sporting tousers, a jumper and tea cosy on Saturday - no one is likely to mistake me for a proper wasdale runner like you guys in shorts and numbers!
(also we came up from seathwaite up to sty head direct up the sty head pass way (not the borrowdale route) so unless he came off gable and just did a comlete 180 and followed us back up it - not guilty! - - I did read that on the thread and thought poor fella) may be he thought - well while I'm here - I'll just check these scree runs (A,B and C!) and these lines off the corridor route I've heard about for the borrowdale!! its so difficult to get a weekend away in the lakes you see!

yes - but are you coming on saturday

[alwaysinjured]

I cant believe you are accusing me of sending someone off course!!! -ME ! - I was sporting tousers, a jumper and tea cosy on Saturday - no one is likely to mistake me for a proper wasdale runner like you guys in shorts and numbers!
(also we came up from seathwaite up to sty head direct up the sty head pass way (not the borrowdale route) so unless he came off gable and just did a comlete 180 and followed us back up it - not guilty! - - I did read that on the thread and thought poor fella) may be he thought - well while I'm here - I'll just check these scree runs (A,B and C!) and these lines off the corridor route I've heard about for the borrowdale!! its so difficult to get a weekend away in the lakes you see!

Just trying to prove that Daleside WAS doing a borrowdale reccie!

& anyway

Even if he DID follow someone down from scafell pike, serves him right for not getting a compass out !!

[alwaysinjured]

yes - but are you coming on saturday

Sore tempted.

[Daleside]

Just trying to prove that Daleside WAS doing a borrowdale reccie!

!!

damn - you tricked me into confessing my exact whereabouts on saturday!

are you a policeman AI?

[Daleside]

yes - but are you coming on saturday

Id really like to do the Lingmell Dash you see which is on saturday afternoon. i suppose I could start the race then from the top of lingmell - trot down to the coll, then across to the corridor route down to sty head and back down to wasdale by the stream there just in time for prize giving, thereby doing a race and a recce on the same day............i believe thats how we are racing these days...............

[Baggins]

I was sporting tousers, a jumper and tea cosy on Saturday

He must have recognised the tea cosy from the fellrunner

Route D heads back down path came up on and shoot a bearing over a rock on the grassy plateau that looks like a turtle(seriously!) and you hit the top of the screes bang on

Sorry to bring this up again but is this route B down the scree gully Huwski? Do you have a map trace of the route?

Never been down that gully yet and Im not going to have time for a full recce and reckon this would be quckest way off Scafell pike so I'll check it out before the race.

Bill