Category: Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
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Wainwrights achieved- 2. Scafell and Slight Side.Purchased – 1 set of walking poles
Yesterday saw us using our rest day to make an emergency purchase of walking poles to replace those cruelly broken in half the day before. The local road closure in order to repair a bridge has caused us to take some very hairy diversions along single track lanes, but the worst by a country mile…
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4 Wainwrights achieved- Yew Barrow, Red Pike, Steeple, Great Scoat Fell
How does a nine mile walk end up becoming an all day marathon? Mr Wainwright and his eclectic choice of fells has a lot to answer for. The day started cold but bright. We were heading for Wasdale lake where we would start our list of Wainwright bagging with an ascent up Yew Barrow. I…
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2 Wainwrights achieved- Green Crag and Harter Fell
We decided that as today was another beautiful weekend day and the fells were likely to be busy, we would walk directly from the house again and avoid driving round trying to find somewhere to park. I’m enjoying this very much as it means we can be out of the house and walking by nine…
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3 Wainwrights achieved – Dow Crag, Great Carrs and Greyfriar
The agenda today was slightly different to that planned previously due to the orienteering event. Basically it meant adding 2 extra miles to our hike instead of driving and parking. I felt very virtuous, a bit like an elderly Greta Thunberg, as I spurned the climate change travesty that is a car and used my…
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Back on the Wainwrights
Hands up everybody who would would cancel their 2 week holiday in Spain for a week in the Lake District. Yes, I thought as much. Have we gone mad? But the rain in Spain is falling , whereas the Lake District will supposedly experience unusual blue skies and balmy spring temperatures, so our decision is…
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Wainwrights Achieved- 2 Brae Fell, Longlands Fell
Up earlyish to add 2, maybe 3 Wainwrights to the week’s collection. Another cold and cloudy day. Even the bionic man had run of enthusiasm by this time but neither of us voiced it, so off we went. The plan was do Brae and Longland Fells, (5 miles) then a drive over to Binsey Fell…
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Wainwrights achieved- 2 Carrock fell, High Pike
A slow start today, just made it in time to our second Wordsworth house this holiday. Dove Cottage is situated in Grasmere and is where William and his sister, Dorothy, set up home together. It’s a modest cottage but cosy and comfortable. I could imagine them sitting together after a bracing walk, writing poetry and…
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Walking the Wainwrights
I never imagined that I would be writing about travels in England but then again, I never imagined I would be forbidden to leave the UK and have to wear a mask every time I set foot in a shop. Crazy times. Still, you can’t keep a good woman down, so I shall try to…
Middle-aged flash packers 