Carried my strimmer, petrol, helmet etc. 850ft up the hill through the forestry and strimmed the footpath back down again.
Carried my strimmer, petrol, helmet etc. 850ft up the hill through the forestry and strimmed the footpath back down again.
The trods in the Lakes await your services!Originally Posted by molehill
From my watch: 7.58 miles, 1 hour 56 minutes; and from previous experience 2,100 odd feet: Wansfell Ridge. Garmin is still "down". Drier than yesterday; lots about.
One i remember in your area being particularly bad was the route from Grasmere up to Grisedale Pass... is it the Tongue? i think there may be two parallel paths... the one i took was head-height this time of year...
edit: i believe it would have been the path running up Little Tongue Gill.
20 mile on the bike, plenty of hills and forestry, rode quite well.
8 miles, 78 minutes, probably about 600 feet: Drunken Duck loop. Main roads are busy. Thankfully lots of the roads on this route are single lane.
9.83 miles, 2 hours 34 minutes; at a guess, 2,200 feet of up? Red Screes via Scandale. Intermittent drizzle/light rain; in cloud above about 1,500 feet, visibility very poor at times. Not many on the fell, town busy, beer "gardens" packed.
Then back to Ambleside down the south-ridge and road?
One of my favourite "short outings" from Ambleside...
Correct - it is a lovely descent.
About 14 miles in just under 4 hours: a brisk walk, including Leicestershire's two 248-metre summits. What a contrast: Beacon Hill was absolutely rammed, as were the paths all the way from my home to the hill, and Mr Whippy was doing a roaring trade in the upper car park, with a long queue of families all standing 2 metres apart. But on top of Timberwood Hill I was alone, although I did meet four other groups of 2 to 5 walkers on the permissive paths on the large Charnwood Lodge nature reserve (which includes Timberwood Hill). Apart from them, I only saw one other walker in the 11 miles after leaving Beacon Hill Country Park.
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