Lake District

Sweeping Richard W off his feet

Originally uploaded by Lincoln Imp

Literally! Our journey today nearly over 12 miles in 7 hours rather than 5 1/2 as we had hoped. Finally arrived at Tan Hill England’s highest pub to find the landlady requesting we stripped off on arrival. We were totally soaked and could have flooded the place. The good news is we will have clean and dry clothing for the morning. We also found the highest wing speed recorded at the pub today was 87 mph. Just remind me, it is summer isn’t it?

Nine Standards Rigg…. In the rain and high wings

Originally uploaded by Lincoln Imp

I can’t describe the strength of the wind, we all we nearly blown off our feet making progress much slower than we had hoped.

Sitting comfortably

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Clive found the best seat to take in the view.

Looking ominous

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The forecast is for gales and rain and they were not wrong. This picture taken on the way out of Kirkby Stephen on our way to Tan Hill Inn a mere 12 miles a way.

Blue sky at Kirkby Stephen

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This morning taken in Kirkby Stephen outside The Black Bull. Excellent place to stay, great food, brilliant room but the best thing was the bath to soothe my aching bones & sore feet.

A great place to stay

Originally uploaded by Clive_lincs

After 20 miles in the rain The Black Bull Hotel was a great place to stay. Helpful staff, good beer, best food on the journey so far and nice rooms – even had a video libary so we watched the Time Machine after dinner. Anyone doing the Coast to Coast should stay in the Black Bull Hotel when they get to Kirby Stephen.

Useful place to get to the Co Op in open until 10pm so we bought chocolate and pain killers (no for me) for the walk on Sunday.

Climbing Helvellyn – Thursday

Originally uploaded by Clive_lincs

Some of these entries will be out of order as it has been two days since I have had a reliable connection.

The route we worked out for our C2C walk included a big peak. Unfortunately the weather was not great. Cloudy, very cold and very windy. We chose to come down on Swirral Edge and as we dropped off the summit the weather started to improve and we end the day walking into Patterdale in a beautiful summers evening.