Backpacks and blisters - the walking thread

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Extended the weekend with an annual leave day and spent it doing the Ullswater Way - which I've done previously as an organised event but did it solo today (it's well marked so doesn't need event signage). Ice underfoot in the morning, and snow and hail showers in the afternoon, but sunny nearly all day (albeit with a chilling wind). From Barton Fell:

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

From Gowbarrow Fell opposite :

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...and back at lake level.

[Moonlight Shadow]

An excellent decision! Lovely area, I was exploring Gowbarrow Fell back in December 2019, when staying at a 'Hobbit hole' at the Quiet Site
Make sure you bag Little Mell Fell one day....

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

An excellent decision! Lovely area, I was exploring Gowbarrow Fell back in December 2019, when staying at a 'Hobbit hole' at the Quiet Site
Make sure you bag Little Mell Fell one day....

I've got another day off on Friday and will be picking off some of the easier Wainwrights around Keswick (my birthday presents from my kids at the start of the year were a scratch-off wallchart and the illustrated guides). I'll have a go at some of the multi peak circulars elsewhere in the summer - though having said that apart from the ice patches the underfoot conditions today were more like mid summer than early spring.

[Moonlight Shadow]

Do you have the Outlying Fells of Lakeland too? Lots of lovely walks, easy ones mostly (it was written for retired fell walkers). I've got half a dozen to bag in a 5 miles radius from where I will be staying later this month (South Lakes)

[Nocturnal Submission]

Make sure you bag Little Mell Fell one day....

Behave yourself!

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Do you have the Outlying Fells of Lakeland too? Lots of lovely walks, easy ones mostly (it was written for retired fell walkers). I've got half a dozen to bag in a 5 miles radius from where I will be staying later this month (South Lakes)

I'm aware of them but haven't got the guide - if it was written for the older walker I'm maybe getting it next birthday!

[Sits]

Walt Flanagans Dog fantastic pics, looks like a lovely walk.

[delicatemoth]

Little Mell Fell sounds promising. Few things better than a relatively low hill, you get the double win of fewer people and wonderful vistas of the higher tops.

[Moonlight Shadow]

Little Mell Fell sounds promising. Few things better than a relatively low hill, you get the double win of fewer people and wonderful vistas of the higher tops.

I was being facetious i have to say. It is a Wainwright indeed but of very little interest, a big lump of grass, easily climbed from the road. AW was quite dismissive of it.

Great Mell Fell is a touch more interesting, one of those rare fells that have kept a tree cover right to the top.

[delicatemoth]

Ah!

I'm genuinely hoping to get out this year. My best friend's boyfriend has a car and they are both up for going on a scenic holiday with me. At the minute we're thinking Pembrokeshire coast.

[Third rate Leszno]

Do you have the Outlying Fells of Lakeland too? Lots of lovely walks, easy ones mostly (it was written for retired fell walkers). I've got half a dozen to bag in a 5 miles radius from where I will be staying later this month (South Lakes)

I'd not heard of this, but having looked it up I find that I've inadvertently bagged quite a few when I was growing up in West Cumbria - even sprinkling my Great Uncle's ashes on one of them!

[Moonlight Shadow]

I'd not heard of this, but having looked it up I find that I've inadvertently bagged quite a few when I was growing up in West Cumbria - even sprinkling my Great Uncle's ashes on one of them!

There are loads of well known (locally) landmarks on the list. The last one I did was Gummer How and what a delight it was!

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Today's fun in the sun - first Sale Fell...

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...then its neighbour Ling Fell...

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....round to a busy Catbells...

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...then High Rigg...

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...and finally Binsey on the way home...

[Sits]

Walt Flanagans Dog those are absolutely beautiful.

I’ve finally snared myself a couple of days’ leave after a dreadful quarter 1 workwise. I have the itch to get back up to the National Park again, with Monday pencilled in.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Walt Flanagans Dog those are absolutely beautiful.

I’ve finally snared myself a couple of days’ leave after a dreadful quarter 1 workwise. I have the itch to get back up to the National Park again, with Monday pencilled in.

Same here really, today and the Ullswater trip on Tuesday were my first two leave days of the year, and I've got 39 still to take before the end of the calendar year (and the next 2-3 months are off limits in practice).

[Sits]

That’s the thing isn’t it? We’re told we must use up our leave, but it’s pretty much impossible to do so.

[Moonlight Shadow]

You certainly made the most of it Walt! Binsey outlier out of the way too!

[diggedy derek]

Lovely pics, all.

I can’t compete with them, but the other day, as part of annual leave at home, we walked from our front door in Forest Gate, East London all the way up 13 miles of Epping Forest to Epping, with our son. That was a really beautiful walk, and parts of the forest are amazingly old and quiet.

[Paul S]

Lovely pics, all.

I can’t compete with them, but the other day, as part of annual leave at home, we walked from our front door in Forest Gate, East London all the way up 13 miles of Epping Forest to Epping, with our son. That was a really beautiful walk, and parts of the forest are amazingly old and quiet.

I used up a weeks annual leave last month by doing a walk from Tower bBidge to Harwich via Epping and the Essex Way. I did 103 miles and travelled to and from the start points by public transport everyday. Epping Forest is fantastic and I really enjoyed it. Little did I know I would spend three hard days there searching for a missing person.