Walk of the Year 2006



Panorama

Panorama


Walk leader* Route* Weather* Walkers* Apologies and Excuses* Comments* Evening Meal* Picture Gallery


Walk leader

Michelle


Route

Skelwith - Colwith - Little Langdale - Elterwater - Skelwith.


Weather

Very good for the time of year. Warm and sunny.


Walkers

Michelle, Michael, George B., Ron, Ashley. Sandy and Beth spent the day shopping locally.


Apologies and Excuses

George G and Carol - in China

Evelyn - Studying nutrition prior to a course in London

Bernie - School football tournament

Alex - being a film extra in Jarrow


Comments

The walk was like a fashion show - a catwalk, with lots of moggies (Ron's comment - "purrfect"!). Stunning views, with lots of attractive slate houses and build-your-own kits (slate heaps). There were weight-training Herdwickes, and a ram with massive horns. Camouflaged sheep, and severals sheep with duocorn. Lots of waterfalls at Colwith. Prehistoric fish (coelacanth).

Lunch was taken overlooking the disused Hodge Close slate quarry with a precipitous overhang. People were walking round close to the edge. Ashley remarked that we would have to wipe the slate clean if anyone fell over. No Christmas Fayre at High Tilberthwaite, but lots of berries on the holly. At the Three Shires pub there was an inconclusive discussion about the existence of a magnetic south pole. This continued at the pub in the evening. A drunken wasp fell into Michael's beer (it swayed a bit over the table). Ron postulated his chocolate orange segment. Met a dog called George. Question - who was Paul Robinson from 1798?

Wildlife: A duck on a rock (a "sitting duck" - Ashley); dead red squirrel, dead fox; live deer, chaffinches, and acorn-throwing crows.


Evening meal

Carts Bog. Chocolate and walnuts on the venison. Beth had a chocolate pot. Joined by Evelyn.


Picture Gallery

Group at start

Group at the start

Tree dwellers

Tree dwellers

Colwith Force

Colwith Force

Woods

Group in the woods

Alphabet stone

Alphabet stone

Hodge Close Quarry

Hodge Close Quarry

Houses in Kit Form

Houses in kit form

En Route

En Route

Ram Horns

Ram Horns

Liquid lunch

Liquid lunch

Drunken wasp

Drunken wasp

Weather vane

Weather vane

Lingmell Fell

Lingmell Fell

Little Langdale

Little Langdale

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea


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