The lake district
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Angle Tarn above patterdale. Best wild camp.
Skidaw House and the back tracks - best mountaing biking at speed - i.e. on gravel roads rather than technical stuff - think I managed 31mpg down White Dash Falls on a bike with caliper brakes!!!!!! (25 years ago).
Bitter end in NobaGob as the best pub at the time.
A66 W dual carridgeway before the refurb by Bass Lake. No slowing below 70 mph or your were a right nesh.
Dollywagon Pike East Ridge Direct under full ice from the mountain hut.
Being on top of Great Gable on the summer solstice evening talking to some Australlians. "What is that with all the chimneys at the end of the valley". "Sellafield nuclear plant blah blah blah". "Why is there smoke coming out those chimnies?"...."Oh s
t, Kevin, did you turn the plant off before we left tonight?".
Egromont crab fair and gurning. Egromont Thursday night £5 treats in the late 1980s.
The A66 towards Penrith and M6 South after three years of living there.
Skidaw House and the back tracks - best mountaing biking at speed - i.e. on gravel roads rather than technical stuff - think I managed 31mpg down White Dash Falls on a bike with caliper brakes!!!!!! (25 years ago).
Bitter end in NobaGob as the best pub at the time.
A66 W dual carridgeway before the refurb by Bass Lake. No slowing below 70 mph or your were a right nesh.
Dollywagon Pike East Ridge Direct under full ice from the mountain hut.
Being on top of Great Gable on the summer solstice evening talking to some Australlians. "What is that with all the chimneys at the end of the valley". "Sellafield nuclear plant blah blah blah". "Why is there smoke coming out those chimnies?"...."Oh s
t, Kevin, did you turn the plant off before we left tonight?".Egromont crab fair and gurning. Egromont Thursday night £5 treats in the late 1980s.
The A66 towards Penrith and M6 South after three years of living there.
Wacky Racer said:
Honister slate mine
Oh yes. The inclined rail from top to the bottom of the mountain, the old mess rooms overlooking the pass, the wooden bridge over that bottomless shaft.Fantastic place to explore, slate mines are so much more stable than coal mines, but I think its well locked up these days (did have a gate on, but it was always bent by 'persons unknown'
vladcjelli said:
Driving over Kirkstone towards patterdale, and as we crested the hill before descending into the valley, being above an RAF training plane messing about below us.
My office used to be here, on the north side of the building, and the bloody things sometimes used to come over the roof fast and low from the south.
otolith said:
vladcjelli said:
Driving over Kirkstone towards patterdale, and as we crested the hill before descending into the valley, being above an RAF training plane messing about below us.
My office used to be here, on the north side of the building, and the bloody things sometimes used to come over the roof fast and low from the south.Some days were like living in a war zone, albeit without live ammunition.
Climb up the old man, get to the top and head back around the back way (some small miscalculation in my map reading 
) , ended up taking us about 7 hours total in the end, got a little bit worried about getting properly lost but thankfully got back to the Black Bull in one piece.
Stayed in Grasmere last time and just a nice early wake up and a nice sausage roll from the little bakery next to the book shop, lovely.
Grasmere again and the little walk up to Easedale Tarn, lovely place for a quiet lunch and some contemplation.
The walk around Rydal water is lovely too.
The Lakes are one place that I've been to that a) I could go back to over and over again and b) could happily see myself living there.
) , ended up taking us about 7 hours total in the end, got a little bit worried about getting properly lost but thankfully got back to the Black Bull in one piece.Stayed in Grasmere last time and just a nice early wake up and a nice sausage roll from the little bakery next to the book shop, lovely.
Grasmere again and the little walk up to Easedale Tarn, lovely place for a quiet lunch and some contemplation.
The walk around Rydal water is lovely too.
The Lakes are one place that I've been to that a) I could go back to over and over again and b) could happily see myself living there.
GT03ROB said:
Drive over Hardknott Pass, across to Wast Water, down to Wasdale head, great little pub down the end!
Be careful of the rocks poking out of the grass verge on 1 in 5 hills.Heading East over Hardknott pass, in a slight drizzle, I managed to put a 3 inch tear in the side wall of a brand new 235/45 ×17 rainsport3
It went dark as fitted the skinny spare with 3 boulders under the other wheels to stop it rolling down the hill.
Pit Pony said:
GT03ROB said:
Drive over Hardknott Pass, across to Wast Water, down to Wasdale head, great little pub down the end!
Be careful of the rocks poking out of the grass verge on 1 in 5 hills.Heading East over Hardknott pass, in a slight drizzle, I managed to put a 3 inch tear in the side wall of a brand new 235/45 ×17 rainsport3
It went dark as fitted the skinny spare with 3 boulders under the other wheels to stop it rolling down the hill.
Walked up Helvellyn on Friday. Went up the quick way from Swirls, then White Side, Raise and Sticks Pass back down. In 8 miles I saw 6 people and was the only person on Helvellyn summit at 8.45am Friday morning. I expected it to be heaving!
Called at Bowness for lunch on way back and it had been decimated with rubbish over the warm days the days before. The National Trust were doing a litter pick and it was appalling to see how much they had collected :-(
Called at Bowness for lunch on way back and it had been decimated with rubbish over the warm days the days before. The National Trust were doing a litter pick and it was appalling to see how much they had collected :-(
All of the obvious places already mentioned, however there are some fantastic lowland areas too.
I love Little Langdale and the old slate workings around there - Tilberthwaite and the spectacular Hodge Close are both fascinating and beautiful.
I hesitate to mention it but Duddon Valley and Eskdale and the best parts of the Lakes, not least because very few folk are aware of them.
I love Little Langdale and the old slate workings around there - Tilberthwaite and the spectacular Hodge Close are both fascinating and beautiful.
I hesitate to mention it but Duddon Valley and Eskdale and the best parts of the Lakes, not least because very few folk are aware of them.
Had a fab day on Blencathra. We were following someone with a distinctive rucksack up Sharp Edge (from the north) who left us for dead as my wife slowed us down on the scrambling. Stopped for lunch on top and then descended Halls Fell (to the south) where we met an old boy with the same distinctive sack.
It turned out he'd gone up Sharp Edge and down Scales Fell (to the east) before coming round the bottom to scramble up Halls Fell. And I thought we'd had a proper day out.
It turned out he'd gone up Sharp Edge and down Scales Fell (to the east) before coming round the bottom to scramble up Halls Fell. And I thought we'd had a proper day out.
Love the lakes, lots of memories from mountain biking, scrambling Sharp Edge and Jack's Rake, a bit of climbing, winter walks in ice and snow. More recently flying over the summits of Helvellyn and Skiddaw by paraglider, and on one particularly fine day, getting 5500 feet over the top of the Old Man of Conniston.
The road over Wrynose and Hardknott passes is a great drive. The Langdale valleys are one of my favourite places anywhere.
The road over Wrynose and Hardknott passes is a great drive. The Langdale valleys are one of my favourite places anywhere.
Lotobear said:
All of the obvious places already mentioned, however there are some fantastic lowland areas too.
I love Little Langdale and the old slate workings around there - Tilberthwaite and the spectacular Hodge Close are both fascinating and beautiful.
I hesitate to mention it but Duddon Valley and Eskdale and the best parts of the Lakes, not least because very few folk are aware of them.
Pretty much grew up at Hodge Close, really special place to spend time.I love Little Langdale and the old slate workings around there - Tilberthwaite and the spectacular Hodge Close are both fascinating and beautiful.
I hesitate to mention it but Duddon Valley and Eskdale and the best parts of the Lakes, not least because very few folk are aware of them.
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