Ascent: 1000m
Weather: Sunny, a little breezy on the tops
Summits: Carrock Fell, High Pike, Knott, Great Calva
Brown feet: 2 a few hours apart, both Rob's
We filled up with a lovely big breakfast at The Mill Inn in Mungrisedale and, after putting on some sun cream and watching Ed McKeever winning gold in the kayaking, set off for today's walk around the Caldbeck Fells.
It was warm and sunny, and has been fairly dry lately so we set off in trail shoes rather than waterproof boots, our feet did get wet during the day, but they stayed cool and dried out fairly quickly after any dunking. Rob's feet, however, are now an interesting shade of brown.
We parked up by the side of the lane under Carrock Fell (649m) and took a path up the fellside that was quite steep and hard going in places, I'm quite glad we chose to go up that route rather than down at the end of the day. But it soon levels out and becomes much easier (apart from a boggy hole that snuck up on Rob's foot) towards Carrock Fell, where there is an Iron Age fort, and some more modern looking sheep folds and shelters. The path leads straight to Hare Stones on the Cumbria Way path, and we took a turn to go up High Pike (658m) and then back to the track. After a short way, there was a sheep trod heading off right in a fairly straight line to Great Lingy Hill from where indistinct paths lead all over the place, through the heather and occasionally boggy ground. We made our way through the rough around Little Lingy Hill and up the hillside to Knott (710m) managing to keep our feet relatively dry.
We had a lunch stop (including bad cheese / dairy product jokes) in the sunshine on Great Calva (690m) and then followed the path down to meet the Cumbria Way path where it crosses Wiley Gill. Here Rob found another boggy puddle and we had a good view of a peregrine falcon having a sit on a fence.
The easy track leads back into Mosedale along the river and then we followed the lane to our starting point.
Wainwrights ticked off today: 3
Remaining: 12
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