Distance: 6 miles
Ascent: about 600m
Weather: cloudy start, becoming warm and sunny
Brown feet: one (this time Helen's)
Annoying dogs: none
Quite annoying blokes: one
As we approach the completion of the Wainwrights, Rob has spent some time compiling lists of other hills that we can climb around the country - focusing, of course, on our favourite place, the Lake District. So we now have plenty reasons to go for a walk. Our new list is a compilation from www.hills-database.co.uk, and includes mainlyHueys, Deweys and Louies Marilyns, Birketts, Nuttalls, Hewitts, Deweys and HuMPs, plus County Tops and mysteriously named "Others".
Today's walk included four tops, some of which proved quite elusive - their grid references encouraging us to walk off edges into thin air (I think not) - and plenty of bimbling about looking at the sheep, views and fish in the tarns.
From the NT car park at Honister Hause, we took the Tramway Path to Drum House and up through the clag following the cairned path across to Loft Beck and up to Seavy Knotts, where the clouds cleared to reveal a lot more sheep in the vicinity than we'd thought. We visited some rocky tops along the ridge at Haystacks SE Top, towards Innominate Tarn, down a good rocky path to Blackbeck Tarn (with fish) and over Green Crag.
There were clear views now, although we noticed (a little bit relieved that we weren't missing out) that Pillar was still capped in cloud.
We scrambled back down to the main path, passed a lady who was very determined to not get her boots wet. I splashed through, taking the opportunity to rinse my boots having had a wobbly rock / mud incident a few minutes previously. I did keep out of the water as we crossed over the next beck at the stepping stones and up the hill direct to Honister Crag, Black Star, where we had a bit of a sit. From here we took the quarry vehicle track back down to the mine, and had some lunch in the cafe - where we were joined by a dog which just stood there minding its own business until some bloke came up and said to just ignore it, then proceeded to tell us a (not very) funny story about him. The dog didn't say anything.
Ascent: about 600m
Weather: cloudy start, becoming warm and sunny
Brown feet: one (this time Helen's)
Annoying dogs: none
Quite annoying blokes: one
As we approach the completion of the Wainwrights, Rob has spent some time compiling lists of other hills that we can climb around the country - focusing, of course, on our favourite place, the Lake District. So we now have plenty reasons to go for a walk. Our new list is a compilation from www.hills-database.co.uk, and includes mainly
Today's walk included four tops, some of which proved quite elusive - their grid references encouraging us to walk off edges into thin air (I think not) - and plenty of bimbling about looking at the sheep, views and fish in the tarns.
From the NT car park at Honister Hause, we took the Tramway Path to Drum House and up through the clag following the cairned path across to Loft Beck and up to Seavy Knotts, where the clouds cleared to reveal a lot more sheep in the vicinity than we'd thought. We visited some rocky tops along the ridge at Haystacks SE Top, towards Innominate Tarn, down a good rocky path to Blackbeck Tarn (with fish) and over Green Crag.
There were clear views now, although we noticed (a little bit relieved that we weren't missing out) that Pillar was still capped in cloud.
We scrambled back down to the main path, passed a lady who was very determined to not get her boots wet. I splashed through, taking the opportunity to rinse my boots having had a wobbly rock / mud incident a few minutes previously. I did keep out of the water as we crossed over the next beck at the stepping stones and up the hill direct to Honister Crag, Black Star, where we had a bit of a sit. From here we took the quarry vehicle track back down to the mine, and had some lunch in the cafe - where we were joined by a dog which just stood there minding its own business until some bloke came up and said to just ignore it, then proceeded to tell us a (not very) funny story about him. The dog didn't say anything.
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