Day 19 Waberthwaite to Eskdale (Boot)
Monday 15 June Day n-n-n-nineteen. Getting there, as they say. This one, and just one more, and I’ll be a third of the way through the journey. Not sure I should be looking at it from that point of...
View ArticleDay 20 An Eskdale Circular Walk
Friday 19Â June Number of days from start of walk to end of Day 10 = 28. Number of days from end of Day 10 to end of Day 19Â = 30. So, slowing down just a bit, but not bad, all things considered. At the...
View ArticleDay 21 Another Eskdale Circular Walk
Tuesday 23 June After the gloomy weather on Friday, we (Phil, John and I) returned to the same car park in Eskdale and were treated to the unusual sight of sunshine and blue sky over the same fells...
View ArticleDay 22 Boot to Ravenglass
Thursday 25 June What a great day this was! I should have known it would be good because it got off to an absolute flyer: as we were heading towards Eskdale, I was telling Kevin about meeting the...
View ArticleDay 23 Ravenglass to Nether Wasdale
Monday 29 June There are some walks you do that turn out to be not quite as good as you expected them to be but, more often (fortunately), the opposite applies and you enjoy a walk much more than you...
View ArticleDay 24 Nether Wasdale to Calder Bridge
Thursday 2 July I wrote on the blog for Day 23 that I enjoyed that day’s walking more than I thought I would and the same applies to this one. One big difference between the two days, though, was the...
View ArticleDay 25 Calder Bridge to Egremont
Thursday 9 July How can a week have passed since I walked Day 24? Where does the time go? I’ll be a hundred years old before I finish this project if I don’t get a bit of a move on. Never mind; as I’ve...
View ArticleDay 26 Egremont to Whitehaven (plus)
Saturday 11 July And what a beautiful morning it was as I set off, all on my lonesome, for the quite long, but easy, walk. The highlight was likely to be the middle section around the twin headlands of...
View ArticleDay 27 Whitehaven to Ennerdale Bridge
Thursday 16 July Well, those of you who read the Day 26 blog and paid close attention will know I didn’t really  start this walk at Whitehaven. No, having walked the first 4 miles of Day 27 as an...
View ArticleDay 28 Pt1 Ennerdale to Black Sail Pass
Sunday 19 July On me own again…for the there-and-back walk from Ennerdale lake shore (see Day 27) to the summit of Black Sail Pass. Regular readers – if indeed there are any – will know that Days 28...
View ArticleDays 28 (end) and 29 Honister to Seatoller
Wednesday 22 July This is it! The magic day that would put me back on track, hopefully, with all the jiggery-pokery of there and back walks and all that sort of stuff finally consigned to history. I...
View ArticleDays 29 & 30 Seatoller to Portinscale
Wednesday 29 July Having taken a whole week to recover from the rigours of our last outing I set off bright and early to finish the end of Day 29 and, hopefully, to complete Day 30. If all went...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 3 of 60
LAKELAND 600 DAY 3: PATTERDALE TO GRASMERE IN PHOTOGRAPHS (and a few words) NB Observant readers will notice that not all the photographs that follow were taken on the same day! In that today’s walk is...
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LAKELAND 600 DAY 4: A GRASMERE CIRCULAR WALK IN PHOTOGRAPHS (and a few words) In the great scheme of things, you could skip today’s walk altogether, as it starts and finishes in the same place. But,...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 5 of 60
LAKELAND 600 DAY 5: GRASMERE TO STANAH (THIRLMERE) IN PHOTOGRAPHS (and a few words) – via Steel Fell and the Thirlmere shore. Although seen by thousands of visitors every day as they drive over Dunmail...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 6 of 60
LAKELAND 600 DAY 6: THIRLMERE TO KESWICK IN PHOTOGRAPHS (and a few words) – via High Rigg, St John’s Church, Castlerigg Stone Circle and Castlehead Wherever you finished up on Day 5, and wherever you...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 7 of 60
LAKELAND 600 DAY 7: KESWICK TO ROSTHWAITE IN PHOTOGRAPHS (and a few words) – via Friar’s Crag, Walla Crag, Ashness Bridge and Watendlath The days keep coming and, in some respects, they keep getting...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 8 of 60
LAKELAND 600 PHOTOGUIDE DAY 8: ROSTHWAITE TO ELTERWATER (via Langstrath, Stake Pass, Mickleden and Chapel Stile) Another terrific day’s walking this one – back to the theme of Days 2 and 3 of walking...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 9 of 60
LAKELAND 600 PHOTOGUIDE DAY 9: ELTERWATER TO CONISTON (via Little Langdale, Tilberthwaite and the Yewdale Fells) Every single one of the 60 days that make up this long journey around the Lakes has its...
View ArticleLakeland 600 Day 10 of 60
LAKELAND 600 PHOTOGUIDE DAY 10 CONISTON TO HAWKSHEAD (via Hodge Close, Uskdale Gap and Tarn Hows) Day 10 is a day of transition, as we move from the rocky fells of the central Lakes to the softer...
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