Leg One

[Bob]

With the large numbers now attempting the round (and virtually all of those going clockwise) the Skiddaw leg is going to get a lot of hammer. When I did my round in 2005 there was just a faint line off Skiddaw and over Hare Crag - by faint, I mean little more than a sheep trod. I think the last time I was on leg one was in 2011 and the track was very prominent then. Also the direct line up Great Calva was visible from Skiddaw.

I've no data on timings for individual legs, mainly because I don't pull that info from the ratification forms, but the general spread of times hasn't really changed. So unless someone did a really quick leg one then slowed down massively I'd say times are broadly similar. Here's a table showing the numbers in each hour (for a complete round) for three periods: pre-2000, 2000 to 2009 and 2010 onwards.

+------+----------+-------------+-----------+
| hour | pre 2000 | 2000 - 2009 | post 2009 |
+------+----------+-------------+-----------+
| 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 17 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 18 | 9 | 4 | 39 |
| 19 | 27 | 9 | 51 |
| 20 | 62 | 19 | 72 |
| 21 | 119 | 40 | 200 |
| 22 | 305 | 109 | 344 |
| 23 | 613 | 205 | 587 |
+------+----------+-------------+-----------+

Edit
Just did a quick analysis of the above. The overall percentages of times above 20:00 hours for the round were

96.15% 95.40% 91.07%

Those in the 23hr bracket dropped by 9% (of the total) while those in the 21hr bracket rose by 4%.

However it's hard to tell if that's because of conditions on the ground or it's just faster runners attempting the round.
/Edit

Hall's Fell: The scree to the right is the start of the parachute descent (it's been discussed on here). Really steep, especially at the top, but pretty rough in the middle section and you need to recce it in daylight with a good written description to follow it (unless it also now is well trodden).

There's a hybrid route that starts down the parachute route but then does a descending traverse leftwards to join Hall's Fell below the sketchy section.

The safest route in bad weather will be Doddick Fell.

I don't know about a RoW change near the kennels. Current mapping http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=332581&Y=526110&A=Y&Z=115 still has the RoW going between the farm buildings.