tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485307711058358952024-02-18T21:03:30.778-08:00backpackingGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-9009287186061371072015-02-22T13:24:00.000-08:002015-02-22T13:24:10.207-08:00Estanhets deth Port to Port de Ratera de Colomers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Heading uphill to the Coth de Podo on a lovely sunny morning.<br />
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Looking back to the lakes where we had camped.<br />
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Estanh Gelat at 2600m.<br />
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First col crossed we headed down to the Lac de Podo.<br />
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Time for a break and dry the dew off the tent.<br />
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I think that's the Tuc de Pogo 2731m. We came through the col just to the right.<br />
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View from the second col of the day. Port de Ratera d'Espot, 2572m. We hung around until everyone went and camped up for the night.<br />
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<br />Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-5683965091458431052015-02-17T13:00:00.000-08:002015-02-17T13:00:49.788-08:00Embassament de Cavallers to Circ de Colomers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bus station in Boi. We got a mini bus to the Embassament de Cavallers.<br />
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Another cold sunny morning.</div>
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The way ahead from the end of the lake is up through the granite to the hut above the Estany Negre.</div>
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Dawne battling up to the col.</div>
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Arrival at the Refugi Joan Ventosa i Calvell at 2215m.</div>
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Next day was a bit sunnier and we headed up towards the Collada dels Gavatxos, 2667m.<br />
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We were surprised how cold it was even in the sun and the Montane zip offs stayed zipped on. Note that we all wore trail shoes. Dawne and I in Sportiva Raptors ( I think I originally heard about these from Martin Rye's blog) and Ailsa and James in Salomons. None of us suffered any blisters. I remember being told by a mountain leader assessor that trail shoes were no good in rocks and boots are needed for ankle support. Can't ever of tried them I reckon as this is one of the rockiest places I've been.<br />
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Back into the Aiguestortes.<br />
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Yet more lakes in the valley beyond, the Estanys dela Gavatxos. I don't think I can actually say that word.<br />
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James looks for the next '3 stone' cairn. We found that the path was a lot harder to find on this section.<br />
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We found an idyllic place to stop for a rest and have something to eat. The tent was damp from dew so I spread it out to dry. That's one of the things I liked about the Mariposa sack- it was possible just to stuff the wet tent into the mesh on the back.<br />
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Ailsa and Dawne with the Golite Pinnacle sacks. I was quite fond of mine but always found the hip belt a bit ineffective.<br />
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Which way now bats?<br />
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Estany Perdut.<br />
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We took Sawyer Mini filters and Aquamira drops and had no problem finding water.<br />
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Fatigue was setting in as we headed for the 4 wheel drive taxis at the Planell der Sant Esperit via a long walk past the Estany Llong.<br />
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We got the last room in a hotel in Boi and polished off two plates of patatas bravas, before getting cleaned up for a proper meal later on.<br />
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Wasn't keen on getting up as there was a frost on the tents but glad I did as I caught the sunrise shining on the Pic de la Mainera 2906m.<br />
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We then climbed to a small peak at 2722m to look down into the Estanys dels Vidals d' Amunt.<br />
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Despite our rucksacks bulging with dehydrated food we went in for tortilla and jamon.<br />
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We then headed back into the hills up the Estany Tort to camp below the Collada dels Gavatxos.<br />
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We finally got camped up between the Estany Eixerola and the Estany de Castiesco.<br />
The cows had not wandered this far yet but their bells could be heard jangling in the distance.<br />
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I'm airing the Z Packs double quilt in the photo. This has damp proof down and weighs less than 900g. This is approximately the weight of one sleeping bag. The tent on the left is my old Solar 2.2, which as you can imagine weigh 2.2Kg. The tent Dawne and I used was the Tarptent single skin Stratospire which has acres of room and only weighs around 1200g. Ok a bit obsessive over weight, but it is my hobby and I'm not keen of lugging huge weights up hills any more. I aimed for a base weight of 6 Kg and probably came out at about 6.5Kg.<br />
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Dawne modelling the quilt and the superb ultra light Berghaus Vapourlight jacket.<br />
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We caught the ferry from Plymouth to Santander on the day the remnants of hurricane Bertha passed through. So we were quite relieved to get in the car and drive via Vielha to Espot in the Aiguestortes National Park. The day we arrived a thunder storm was due so we booked into a hotel for the night to sit it out. Catalan soup is to be recommended as it arrives in an urn, the only downside is the bits of cheek and funny looking bones in the bottom.<br />
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The next day we got the 4 wheel drive taxi to the Estany de Sant Maurici in the National park and headed up the Monestero valley for the Coll de Peguera.<br />
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We stopped at the head of the Estany de Monestero for refreshment. Ailsa and James were looking forwards to trying their Wilko alcohol stove in their superb home made pan support / wind shield.<br />
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We then headed on up towards the coll to the left of the pointy peak.<br />
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Dawne and Ailsa on the climb to the Coll de Peguera 2715m.<br />
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We descended the other side to Estanys de Saburo d' Amunt and pitched the tents at about 2600m.<br />
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The rules are no camping in the National Park so our strategy was to walk through the park and climb a col at the end of the day to camp just outside. I guess a stealth camp late at night in such a vast landscape would go unnoticed.<br />
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Good Friday is not the best day to travel The roads were gridlocked and there were huge tailbacks just to get through Callander. After a full day on the road we finally got to the campsite in Glencoe and parked the van.<br />
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It may not be wild camping but the view from the site is awesome. We walk into the village and catch the local shop just shutting and get the last loaf of bread. Sandwiches sorted for the walk.<br />
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Easter Saturday and we get parked up in the Visitor Centre car park and cross the beck on the way to Ben Nevis. At this stage I'm a bit confused. Some people, like us, are carrying ice axes and wearing boots. Some people are wearing trainers with a coat tied around their waist. Must be getting old and too cautious.<br />
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The path is easy going and zig zags up the fell.<br />
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The views open up.<br />
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Then it's not just the odd drift of snow but deep stuff. Some, but not all, of the trainers turn around here. We stop for refreshment.<br />
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The summit from across Observatory Gully. I wonder how many people realise how close they are to a huge drop.<br />
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We head down, this is a big hill as you climb it from almost sea level and there's a danger Morrisons might be shut by the time we get there.<br />
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We met an old friend and his wife and daughter ( Ben and Hannah and Sophie) on the way down and did manage to catch Morrisons, but we were pretty tired.<br />
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We were in the car park at Greenside Mine by 08:50hrs. By the time it took to get the the gear on the car park was full, but at least the heavy sleet shower had stopped.<br />
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Catsycam looking wonderful under the cover of snow.<br />
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A great day out with the Lake District Ski Club. <a href="http://www.ldscsnowski.co.uk/">http://www.ldscsnowski.co.uk/</a></div>
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The snow is probably deeper on the eastern fells but I can't be bothered with the longer drive. So I end up at Seathwaite with no particular objective. As I leave the farm yard Allen Crags appear. The crag below the skyline, looks like there's a diagonal rake below it.<br />
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And it's a lot more interesting than that terrible man made cobbley path that they seem to go in for in the Lakes.<br />
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There's a wonderful shelf running around Allen Crags with little tarns dotted along it.<br />
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The weather clears a little to reveal Great Gable and Sprinkling Tarn.<br />
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Another tarn on the shelf.<br />
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View down the other side to Langdale Pikes where a friend from work, Dave McGregor was walking today.<br />
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There's a shower coming in as I head down. By not crossing over to the main path and by zig zagging through the crags I get down to Low How and manage to avoid the cobbley path for quite a distance.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-64117743900745778742013-09-28T12:52:00.000-07:002013-09-28T12:52:34.723-07:00Arnison Crag and Hexamid Trial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's after tea when I get parked up in Patterdale and head up Arnison Crag behind the hotels. Instead of keeping to the wall side I stupidly head for the ridge and pay the price of wading through deep bracken. It's getting dark but I need to keep going to finally find water below Trough Head in Hag Beck.<br />
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Dawne has given me some pre cooked stew to heat up for my tea . This is not a success as my cooking system is designed for boiling water, pouring it on a dried meal and leaving it in the pot cosy for 20 mins. Thin titanium pans and thick stew don't work on an uncontrollable meths stove.<br />
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The tent performs well as it's quite windy in the night. It has an open mesh floor which is draughty. So maybe if it was raining it would blow through. The draught did seem to prevent condensation on the single skin Cuben Fibre. At 500g the tent is very light. I've used my Leki pole as the support, but had to lengthen it with a home made section from an old Black Diamond pole.<br />
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Next morning after 2 bowls of porridge I power up into the mist on the east ridge of St Sunday Crag.<br />
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No views off the summit but as I head towards Birks I get a super view of Nethermost Cove.<br />
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A bright and breezy morning and heading up Langstrath for Cam Crag ridge. The idea is to drop down into Comb Gill and put up my new tent. Have n't had time to sleep in it yet but want to see what it's like in the field. It will be somewhere to eat my sandwiches in.<br />
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I head left off the path to scramble up a little gill.<br />
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The ridge ahead is a classic grade 2 scramble originally classified as a moderate rock climb.<br />
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I've just done the introductory buttress and am sat having a rest when a head appears over the rocks and it's an old friend: Murray.<br />
He's with some other lads and they've bivvied in the shelter below the crag.<br />
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After a chat I let them get on with the next buttress as they will be far quicker than me.<br />
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As I reach the top it's already clouding over and I make a steep descent along the edge of Dove's Nest into the Combe.<br />
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The bottom of Combe Gill.<br />
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So I ordered this tent/tarp from the USA earlier in the year. It took 5 weeks to come but is an incredible piece of technology. I've gradually lost weight with my tents, Akto 1600g , Power Lizard 1100g, but Z Packs Hexamid above is only 454g.<br />
So I'm just having my dinner in it and seeing what it's like.<br />
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I've got the beak, the cuben ground sheet and complete bug protection. It probably does not cope with wind like the Trailstar but for summer use I'll give it a go.<br />
I could not see the point of forking out for the Trailstar as according to my reckoning by the time I'd added a nest or bivvy for bug protection and included the stakes I might as well use the Powerlizard.<br />
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So I'll need some practice at pitching it correctly as I had a crease in the back.<br />
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I may need to find a way to extend the trekking poll as it was way beyond it's limits.<br />
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Well it didn't leak, I just need some time to try it for real.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-13203391751714632132013-08-04T13:33:00.001-07:002013-08-04T13:33:43.457-07:00Pennines. Last Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I pack away the tent it's damp and drizzling. I need to get to Middleton in Teesdale Coop for supplies. A scone and coffee wouldn't come amiss either.<br />
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This section is mainly rough pasture or hay meadows. There's lots of bullocks in the fields. Mostly they ignore you but I found them a bit intimidating when they stand in a heard right in front of the stile you are heading for. Wall climbing became my speciality.<br />
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Middleton in Teesdale. Half day closing, despite being 10:30 ish half the shops were shut. Maybe that's what it means.<br />
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The Tees is a big river and the path follows it for miles. There are lots of flowers and spectacular water falls.<br />
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Eventually a roaring can be heard and I turned a corner to the site of Cauldron Snout. Special.<br />
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It's getting late and I want to get beyond the farms to camp. Maize Beck looks promising. The far horizon is High Cup. Hopefully I won't need to go that far.<br />
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Oh yes I do. The midges are terrible by the beck and there's no wind. At High Cup there's a breeze, well half a gale actually, but no midges.<br />
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How far can I walk in a day back packing ? I now have the answer. 29 miles, never again.<br />
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This is all worth it as the next day is beautiful.<br />
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Just after this I tip the whole bowl of porridge in the gravel. So when I get to Dufton walk the half mile into the village as last time there was a shop. It's now gone. So I had to walk to the train in Appleby hungry.<br />
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I can't see any reason for anyone doing the Pennine Way for going all the way down to Dufton just to climb back up to the escarpment to go over Cross Fell. I would just keep height and walk around the plateau.<br />
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Last twist, I'll get some breakfast in Appleby but as I pass the station to get there I just check the train times. What time is the next train to Carlisle? 3 minutes time. Bugger.<br />
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Another beautiful day and I head down to Thwaite in Swaledale.<br />
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I'm so busy being annoyed with the constant signs to keep to the path and walk in single file through the field that I head off down the valley for 10 minutes before doubling back to head up and over to Keld.<br />
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I arrive at a quiet time at the tea room. 10 minutes later and theres a big queue out of the door as cars full of folk arrive.<br />
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Theres now a long slog up to Tan Hill. I wear a hat and long sleeves so the only bit of skin consistently in the sun is the back of my hands. They getting sore so I wear my spare socks as gloves.<br />
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A pint of lime and lemon, some chips and a panini a bit of a rest and I gaze out on the vastness that is Bowes Moor.<br />
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I'm glad I don't have to cross this in the mist. I still find it an eerie place, no sign of crows, buzzards, peewits curlews or any thing. But lots of grouse feeding stations. Half way across I see a distant 4 wheel drive on a ridge and I'm sure they are watching me.<br />
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I camp near a little gill below the horizon above the shed. I was ready for the cup of tea.<br />
20 miles walked.<br />
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Up at the crack of dawn again I'm porridge powered into Hawes. A second breakfast and an ice cream the I'm heading across the fields to Hardrow.<br />
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The path then heads up the ridge to Great Shunner Fell. I am very sweaty and do a left and bushwack into the valley bottom for a bath and a clothes washing session.<br />
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This turns out to be a fenced off area where they have excluded sheep. There are loads of rabbits in the lush grass. Peewits and curlews on the slopes and for the first time I see a buzzard.<br />
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More bushwacking back to the path and Great Shunner summit appears.<br />
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I drop off the other side and get the tent up. The phone is going flat as I've had runkeeper running all day, so I plug it into the solar panel. Despite being heavy I brought the power monkey battery as well. I've got the Kindle and GPS to keep charged. Unfortunately the battery despite being fully charged developed a fault and wouldn't switch to supply. Had to bin it when I got home.<br />
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15 miles walked. 2 ice creams, 1 scone, 1 full english.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-23225759275844923642013-07-24T11:26:00.000-07:002013-07-24T11:26:15.071-07:00Pennines. Day2.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Up at the crack of dawn and over the summit of Fountain's Fell. A bit of a loop round to the end of Pen y Ghent.<br />
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This was the most popular hill by far as a lot of 3 peakers were coming up from Horton.<br />
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The way ahead on the white path. It swings off to the left down to Horton. Then it goes up the valley to the right in the distance. One of the peculiarities I noticed was how the route does a big loop out to somewhere then back again.<br />
It was worth it for the Pen y Ghent caf.<br />
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The guidebook I was using said there's a shop, but it was shut down.<br />
Did I mention the clegs? The next few miles were farmy and clegy.<br />
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Water was a problem in the farmland and even the above beck on closer inspection didn't tempt me.<br />
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Eventually I found an ice cold spring on Cam End and a suitable hollow to pitch the tent.<br />
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I caught the train from Carlisle to Lancaster and after a coffee and bacon sandwich on Lancaster station I caught the train with "trouble at t'mill accents" to Gargrave.<br />
A quick visit to the coop for some matches and crackers and I'm heading for Mallam.<br />
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The walk is besides the Rivber Aire. It's hot and it's cleg heaven. At last I reach Mallam and food and a pot of tea. This will be a pattern. Cafes for second breakfasts and dinner. Tea later on in tent. It saves weight you know.<br />
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The Way leads up the side of the Cove. It's very busy. I press on and luckily there's a ice-cream van at the car park before Mallam Tarn. A 99 and a bottle of icy water boost me onwards as I plan to camp above the intakes.<br />
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Fountains Fell on the left the target.<br />
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Tent up, air the bag. get the tea cooking. View back to Mallam Tarn.<br />
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.Impressions of this section: A bit farmy, very overgrazed, lots of clegs. Brilliant weather.<br />
I walk over the ridge to view the route ahead tomorrow, over Pen y Ghent.<br />
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We had previously done a cycle tour in Andalucia and decided on a week's holiday in the sun. After seeing Mceff's blog about the Sierra Nevada ( http://becausetheyrethere.com/2012/10/04/lucero-where-old-hatreds-linger/#more-5195) we ended up in the Hotel Alcadema in Lanjaron.<br />
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Monday we headed for the trail head below the Cuerda del Travenque ridge. <br />
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The city in the background is Granada.<br />
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The heat was reflected by the white limestone scree but we had 4 litres of water between us.<br />
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At last the summit with the high Sierra beyond and a baguette to chomp.<br />
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This is a good way down as the river bed is dry and easy to walk on.<br />
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So the relaxing on the beach........<br />
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The day after the walk we had a day at the coast. I took my shirt off to dazzle the onlookers and managed 10 minutes on this rock. We then had a paddle and headed for the hills. I know everyone is different but we passed some sun beds with brown prune like bodies lying on them. How the hell anyone can just lie there for hour after hour is a mystery.<br />
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After a mad dash after work and a call to Penrith Morrisons I park the car outside my mam and dads at 20:15. That'll give me just over an hours daylight to reach Borrowdale, climb the Whinfell ridge and get the tent up. Borrowdale is a side valley going right in the above picture just below the snowy fell.<br />
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I got the tent up at 22:00. I carry 4 litres of water up from the beck and get the tent in the lea of a wall.<br />
I brew coffee in the morning and the snow is already melting.<br />
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Daylight and I'm glad of that wall as the wind is strong. I aim to walk along the ridge in the left of the picture and come back down the valley. There's a couple of things I want to see. If you look at Whinfell Beacon from the south there is a wood very near the top. Wainwright reckons this was planted to provide wood for the beacon. I'm on a mission to check it out. There's the mystery of the pink rock. I used to fish this valley 40 yrs ago and remember seeing pink rocks in the beck that weren't Shap Granite and certainly not the silurian mud stones of the local geology.<br />
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The wood is beautiful, the trees old and twisted. Someone went to a lot of trouble as there is the remains of a drystone wall all the way around. The trees are not regenerating as sheep are in there now.<br />
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Not far from here is where we once had a youth club barbecue. One of the lads pulled a big salmon out of the beck and took it home for his mam. </div>
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When I sit by the beck for lunch I look for the pink stones. They are visible in the photo above.<br />
I hadn't imagined it, but the mystery remains they are dark pink but dont have the big crystals of the Shap Granite. They are heavy and very tough to break. More research needed.<br />
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Just for a change it looks like rain in Tebay. I can see my mam and dad's house from here.<br />
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Lune valley and Howgills behind.<br />
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Coming down to Roundthwaite with Tebay behind. Just the motorway and railway to get through.<br />
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I can remember before this was built.<br />
Further on there are fences where there never used to be and the little streams where the sticklebacks were are gone. There used to be ponds near the river with newts in, no sign. There were reads next to the bridge with water rats, just grass and trees now.<br />
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The street above used to have a cake shop and cafe, a post office, a coop, an electrical shop and a drapery and I knew everybody's name.<br />
Mind you they do have street lights now and indoor toilets.<br />
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The skies clear a little to reveal the much underrated Catstye Cam.</div>
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Sunday I'm off to see my mam in Tebay so the walk has to be Saturday. It's overcast and the higher fells look like they have fresh snow disappearing up into the mirk. I'm the second car in the car park at Chapel Bridge, Little Town. I follow two blokes heading up beside Scope Beck.<br />
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I've chosen this route as I have only ever looked down on this valley from the ridges above. One of the big motivations for me is seeing what's round the next corner. With that in mind I follow the beck up rather than the path.<br />
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At a slanty waterfall I have to bale-out up a gully to the right. The grass is steep so I'm careful as no-one knows I'm here and a slip might be awkward.<br />
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Regaining the beck above the impass I make a note to come back in summer and see if its possible to scramble up the falls. Having said that I'm always spotting crags I want to climb, corries I want to camp in, gills I want to explore....<br />
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Above the falls it broadens out into a flat hanging valley.<br />
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I sit behind the wall of a sheep pen to eat my dinner. The fruit sandwiches might not have been the best idea. The ultimate (no added sugar) jam. <br />
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Up on Littledale Edge it's a bit wild.<br />
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Overcast but no wind as I drive along Wastwater. It's been a long time since I tackled Scafell Pike from this side via Hollow Stones and Mickledoor. I usually do the Corridor Route or from (in my opinion) the best route from a camp beside the Great Moss in Eskdale.<br />
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As I get ready at the car park an old timer like me sets off with full winter kit whereas some young lads in the next car have neither axe nor crampons. As I approach the back wall of the corrie I put on the gear. Most people have headed for the easier route from Lingmell Col. I eat a Greggs bacon sandwich purchased in Egremont and watch as a couple struggle up the slope in bendy boots. The route follows the slanting gully at the lowest point on the skyline.<br />
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On the ridge there are 3 lads eating chocolate in full gear plus helmets. They 've come up the same way as me and are outraged by the couple in the bendy boots who were apparently on all fours and just made it because of the bucket steps in the nevee from previous walkers. <br />
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As I walk down the Lingmell ridge, boy does that do your knees in, I look across at the ascent route and remember in my holier than thou outrage that actually for the first 20 years of my walking career I probably didn't have crampons either. Nowt worse than a hypocrite !<br />
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Talking of hypocrite I'd better not call at a caf on the way home as I've already had a bacon sandwich and I'm supposed to be on a diet.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-51555483980509174442013-02-19T13:14:00.000-08:002013-02-19T13:14:32.567-08:00On and Off for 46 Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1975 with brother Andrew, Carlin Gill in the Howgills. Andrew with Leeds scarf.<br />
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I think I've done more posts on Helvellyn than any other mountain. Well it's a nice day. Strangely I'm not at work so a high eastern fell might still have snow. Helvellyn it is.<br />
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As you come over Dunmail Raise theres a hanging valley to your left with a waterfall. I've never been up that way. The ridge is the one above with trees.<br />
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It's my lucky day as it's not raining and Dawne is with me.<br />
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After the steep bit the ridge broadens out. Note for the future there are one or two suitable camping spots here.<br />
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The summit plateau is very icy and seeing as we brought them we put on our crampons.<br />
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I picked up a new rucksack in the sales. £40 instead of £80. Seems ok but I find the opening a bit narrow. Dawne is also modelling the new Iliam Berghaus down jacket. Yes I know I don't usually buy Berghaus, but they are ahead of the game at the moment as the down is waterproof hydrodown. I expect more garments will be copying these soon.<br />
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Greg also put on his new jacket as it was bloody cold.<br />
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The return route along the edge of the corries.<br />
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Down the gill to the car. <br />
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A glorious morning and I'm out of the house by 08:00. I've swapped the trail shoes for the mountaineering boots and as I head up Raise Beck from Dunmail Raise Ive got the ice axe fastened to the back of the sack and hidden under the lid my crampons. Overkill?<br />
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I am heading past Grisedale Tarn and down to the entrance to Ruthwaite Cove. I remember now why I decided last time never to do that again. It's a long way and you have to descend 500 Knee jarring feet into Grisedale.<br />
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The view ahead spurs me on and I decide not to stop for tea until I reach the tarn.<br />
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From Hard Tarn I head NE to pick up the ridge onto Nethermost Pike. Now Ive done this twice before.Once on hands and knees in summer when a gale was threatening to drop me into Nethermost Cove and once in winter with crampons and good conditions. What could go wrong?<br />
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As the ground steepens I realise Im sliding down in the knee deep unconsolidated snow. I look down from a little refuge above a boulder and realise theres a long drop below me now and I probably could not reverse what Id just come up. Gingerly I open the sack and ever so carefully get the crampons on.<br />
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It's just a stroll along to Dollywaggon Pike taking photos as I go.<br />
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Heading south west from Dollywaggon I descend the little gill that brings you out onto Willie Wife Moor and the path off Reggle Knott. This is a much better descent rout than the eroded and often icy path down Raise Beck.<br />
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No cafes were visited in the making of this blog.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-85723763344550522802012-10-22T14:51:00.000-07:002012-10-22T14:51:31.706-07:00Staveley Horseshoe. (Why Eat Cheddar)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had not realised Staveley was such an interesting place. There's Wheelbase, one of the biggest bike shops in the universe, there's the offices of Montane, Hagloffs, and Innov8 and the artisan bakers where if I had not been on a diet I could have stocked up on carbs. I parked the car in the main street and headed for Potter Tarn. Turning left here I headed up Brunt Knott where I ate my Hairy Dieters pie. <br />
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This ones for McEff, ( http://becausetheyrethere.com/ ) <br />
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From here you look east across a big expanse of largely unvisited land towards Longsleddale, before descending towards Skeggles Water Dike.<br />
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Yes your feet are very wet by the time you reach here. After refuelling with a couple of sandwiches with just a taster of Blue Wensleydale grated into them I headed over Green Quarter Fell and filled up the 2 platypuses in a little gill coming down from Wray crag.<br />
A flat dryish area was then secured for the tent on the side of Shipman Knotts.<br />
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I spent the long evening cooking and reading the book downloaded on the Kindle. I awoke at 2am with cold legs. Really must save up for a new sleeping bag. Brewed up some soup and then came up with the brainwave of wearing my fleece pullover upside down as a pair of long-johns. This worked well as I had my down jacket on the top half. For breakfast i finished off the Blue Wensleydale sarnies.<br />
Then onwards over Kentmere Pike, Harter Fell, Mardale Ill Bell, and lunch stop on High Street.<br />
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After Thornthwaite Beacon I'm heading south again over Froswick and Ill Bell.<br />
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On the left between Froswick and Ill Bell is Over Cove where me and my dad ascended one snowy winter's day over 30 years ago. I am now the same age he was then.<br />
The shadows are lengthening as I hurry over Yoke and get camped up as it gets dark in an old quarry on the south side of Sallows.<br />
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I have a warmer night wearing the newly invented long johns and in the morning get a quick photo before the wave of fog engulfs me.<br />
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To finish the horseshoe i finished by going over Sour Hows, Capple Howe and heading for the Williamson Memorial and Reston Scar. There may be an easy way between the last two that does not involve climbing and falling off high walls, keeping low profiles in case farmers see you, and wading through knee deep cow slurry.<br />
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The cheese bit, when in Orkney we went in a Spar shop for some cheese. Being on a diet I was looking for low fat. A bit optimistic in a small remote shop and yes they didn't have any. What they did have was 12 different varieties os cheddar, possibly the most boring cheese on the planet.<br />
Why would anyone need so many choices in the Cheddar field?<br />
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The Staveley Horseshoe: approx 20 miles. Lakeland FRC Fells climbed: Brunt Knott, Green Quarter, Shipman Knott, Kentmere Pike, Harter Fell, Mardale IllBell, High Street, Thornthwaite Beacon, Froswick, IllBell, Yoke, Sallows, and Sour Howes.<br />
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<br />Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00603945367689510842noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48530771105835895.post-58747405756229047642012-09-01T12:41:00.000-07:002012-09-01T12:41:04.239-07:00Cairngorms were Derry ColdI drove up to a campsite near Perth on Monday, the weather was atrocious on the motorway. Got the tent up about 7 pm and ate the sandwiches I'd brought. The Nammatj survived the night and I drove to Glen Shee on a breezy day and nipped up The Cairnwell. I then dossed about the Caravan Club site at Braemar as the next day was again atrocious.<br />
Finally on Thursday I ditched the car at the Linn of Dee car park and headed up Glen Lui towards Derry Lodge.<br />
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This was about 3 miles and I wished I'd had a mountain bike for this bit. I then followed the Luibeg Burn heading for the Sron Rioch ridge on Ben Macdui.<br />
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That's the ridge in the middle of the photo. I've done about 5 miles and I'm still not near the bottom of the fell. These hills are bigger than the Lakeland fells then.<br />
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Eventually I'm on the ridge as a snow shower whips across. Yes it is August.<br />
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The long distances are worth it as I am now in granite heaven.<br />
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Its late as I head down past the Hutchison memorial hut. I'm looking for somewhere to camp but its all bog, midges and heather. May be those sheep in the Lakes have a use after all creating nice short grass for camping. After 3 more weary miles I start approaching the trees in Glen Derry.<br />
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The first flat dry place is a little patch of grass besides the beck and a bridge. I sleep but am awake and frozen about 3am. I put on all my clothes in the sleeping bag but am still freezing. In the morning theres frost and ice but no midges. Can't believe it's August.<br />
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Just a tip, dont drive at speed back to Braemar in the hope of getting breakfast cos all the cafes will be shut. Strange place.<br />
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