Sunday 24 August 2014

Allerdale Rambling by the Sea

Distance: 8 miles
Ascent: not much at all
Weather: warm and sunny
Fish and chips: huge

Seagulls, stonechats, oyster catchers, wheatear, flocks of turnstones.
Ox eye daisies, scarlet pimpernel, poppies, thrift, thistles.

A linear walk from Maryport to Allonby and back, along the Allerdale Ramble, the beach and the England Coastal Path.

Saturday 23 August 2014

Allerdale Rambling

Distance: 12.5 miles
Ascent: 450m
Weather: warm and sunny

Kestrel, buzzard, bunny, giddy cows, placid cows. Skipping sheep.
The shittiest lane in the world.

Views of the Isle of Man. 
Wainwright Outlying Fells: Watch Hill, Watch Hill Setmurthy Common, Clints Crags.

On the last day of the Pennine Way, our flask of tea was noticeably tepid, so it wasn't a huge surprise but still sad this morning that it had failed completely. We have others but that was the first one we got for our first holiday in Snowdonia 13 years ago.

So, tea and biscuit-less,  we set out from Cockermouth this morning to walk a bit of the Allerdale Ramble. It was much warmer and sunnier than we'd planned for, the weather earlier in the week had been decidedly cool. I wore my fancy wool hat, and it was a successful test although probably wouldn't be good if it was much windier.

It was a fine day, we saw many butterflies and buzzards and met lots of friendly cows. Rob slipped on a tree root coming down a path through some pine woods. I banged my knee on a stone stile and was startled by a cow, but at least it didn't lick me.

We timed our walk quite well, as we'd got in and were just having a coffee when it started raining.


Saturday 16 August 2014

Marsden Moor

Distance: 4 miles
Ascent :
Weather: cloudy, windy, cool

We left the house! A short walk along the Pennine Way, Oldham Way, passing Dowry Reservoir and back along the Station to Station Walk.