tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post2182578675073327212..comments2024-03-23T09:47:39.612+00:00Comments on alan sloman's big walk: PreWalkDaunder 2013: The RouteAlan Slomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-40958166700010277182013-02-07T23:21:03.135+00:002013-02-07T23:21:03.135+00:00Hi Mark
You can now see what I was banging on abou...Hi Mark<br />You can now see what I was banging on about over at your place the other day.<br /><br />I see our route has been well & truly "scruted." There is indeed a squiggle just to the west of Green Crag - hopefully a great spot for a wild camp in fine weather, with wonderful views. of the bigger fells. If it's shitty we'll be dropping down to the east of the crag for a bit of shelter. Of course, if it's *really* shitty we can, as Lord Elpus has suggested earlier, drop down to the Woolpack in Boot...<br /><br />The entire route has been built on having great views - so the clouds had better bugger off for those few days.<br />:-)Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-8247969572359491622013-02-07T23:14:00.109+00:002013-02-07T23:14:00.109+00:00Evening, Terrence!
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Apart from our merry band I...Evening, Terrence!<br />:-)<br />Apart from our merry band I don't expect to see too many folk clambering up the same hills. This will be in marked contrast to our last year's PreWalkDaunder, when, as we were coming down from Pavey Ark there was a crocodile of <b>hundreds</b> of walkers coming up.<br />The views from the Outlying Fells are reckoned to be amongst the finest in Britain. There should be great views of the Scafells.Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-66920457286369341452013-02-07T22:35:20.693+00:002013-02-07T22:35:20.693+00:00Looks like a superb route. Something squiggly happ...Looks like a superb route. Something squiggly happens in the vicinity of Green Crag - is that to incorporate a wild camp?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-76917776796449111322013-02-07T22:19:49.143+00:002013-02-07T22:19:49.143+00:00Good route that Alan! One of my fave areas of the ...Good route that Alan! One of my fave areas of the Lakes. Fab fab views of the Scafells from Birker Fell. You don't see many pics of those high hills from there - probably because no bugger often walks that way. I will be in the coming months ;)<br /><br />I can remember paying Dunnerdale and Birker Fell a visit for the first time a few years ago (well, might be more than a few now) and I was in awe. Lovely, nice feeling of being remote, great views and something really rather different from other parts of the Lakes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02730639220766098918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-22660403602004054462013-02-07T20:58:53.597+00:002013-02-07T20:58:53.597+00:00Indeed. That would be a good bolt hole for DAY TWO...Indeed. That would be a good bolt hole for DAY TWO's camp if the weather were to misbehave.<br /><br />I have also been advised by the excellent Mr Keohane that we pass perilously close to another excellent licensed establishment: <a href="http://www.theblacksmithsarms.com/" rel="nofollow">The Blacksmiths Arms</a> at Broughton Mills, just a rockfall away from our camp at the end of DAY ONE.<br /><br />I only point this out for completion's sake, of course...Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-10451007454233486392013-02-07T20:29:50.815+00:002013-02-07T20:29:50.815+00:00Oh gawd - I'd forgotten that. Indeed I had jus...Oh gawd - I'd forgotten that. Indeed I had just finished the radio stuff. My insides were still sizzling. I was not a well man.<br /><br />The Newfield Inn was wonderfully therapeutic, though, and I take heart from seeing that the Woolpack at Boot isn't entirely out of the question if a FWA is required ;-)Elpushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736460104596022993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-66136415929501200162013-02-07T12:16:47.656+00:002013-02-07T12:16:47.656+00:00Indeed!
It's not meant to be a gut-buster, but...Indeed!<br />It's not meant to be a gut-buster, but on the other hand it is supposed to get us in the right frame of mind for a bigger walk, and gives us the opportunity with a couple of weeks to the big one of sorting out last minute kit-niggles.<br />It is also supposed to be enriching; There are wonderful views to be had from these particular fells.Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-27472484713138986862013-02-07T12:14:11.977+00:002013-02-07T12:14:11.977+00:00Thanks for that reminder, Al. I had put it on my R...Thanks for that reminder, Al. I had put it on my Routebuddy mapping at the time but these are my Anquet maps (Anquet can do 3-D views) so I had missed it. That camp site could be quite useful if we have any strugglers who want a shorter first day.<br />Thank you.<br />:-)Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-29971899287341168032013-02-07T12:12:01.742+00:002013-02-07T12:12:01.742+00:00The Turner Hall Farm camp site, where we will be m...The Turner Hall Farm camp site, where we will be meeting up is a little gem, with lovely views. There's enough room so that we can be separate from any nicely brought up families. And we're there on a Wednesday night, so it shouldn't be too busy. <br />Don't want to go about frightening the horses, do we? Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-38720328609552543532013-02-07T12:08:31.557+00:002013-02-07T12:08:31.557+00:00I went there a few years back and thought Dunnerda...I went there a few years back and thought Dunnerdale to be a beautiful out-of the way spot, but as Alan says a bit further down this thread, it's just a spit away from the motorway and actually quite easy to get to. Last time we were here Phil was recovering from Radiotherapy (I never quite fathomed quite why he was forced to listen to Radio 1 for four weeks - the wonders of modern medicine, eh?) and so he didn't make it up Walna Scar. <br />This will be his triumphal return to the Newfield Inn, Seathwaite and the sylvan beauty of Dunnerdale.<br />If you're around when we are there perhaps you could join us?Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-58726901208849303242013-02-07T11:39:48.397+00:002013-02-07T11:39:48.397+00:00Looks a bodacious ramble.Looks a bodacious ramble.addonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00989766403745491804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-9193837908477038112013-02-07T10:23:37.529+00:002013-02-07T10:23:37.529+00:00Might be worth keeping this place in mind as you w...Might be worth keeping this place in mind as you walk right past it.<br />http://alanrayneroutdoors.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-camp-site-in-south-lakes.html<br /><br />Always handy to know as it isn't marked on any maps yet.AlanRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180571503542781921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-10249077170583947242013-02-07T06:08:45.471+00:002013-02-07T06:08:45.471+00:00Looks fabulleyous. Nice and quiet for Cumbria. Wel...Looks fabulleyous. Nice and quiet for Cumbria. Well not once you arrive obviously. FellBoundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089687581260477621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22496677.post-79826625853234224002013-02-07T00:16:11.408+00:002013-02-07T00:16:11.408+00:00That's a cracking area, you'll enjoy it. I...That's a cracking area, you'll enjoy it. I plan (Ho-ho!) to be at Coniston Coppermines in April.<br />Coniston Bluebird will be taken. In quantity.<br />JJJohn Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07569413172924501491noreply@blogger.com