Distance 24 miles
Ascent 850m
Weather overcast, windy in the tops
The start of today's walk was along the Wyre Way. We crossed some sheep fields while an oystercatcher squawked at us in an annoyed (and quite annoying) way.
A pleasant woodland path led out on to open fields where a buzzard and kestel were out hunting.
We followed a track up from Grizedale Barr to Grizedale Head, passing Luncheon Hut (as it was too early for lunch) making good time, about 3mph.
Leaving the track we crossed peat moorland, heading up to Ward's Stones, where we had lunch (bread, ham and cheese bought from the Fleece Shop at the pub) sheltered from the wind behind the stones.
We crossed the plateau between the trig points, with the song of skylatks just audible over the wind.
There were lots of black backed gulls nesting on Mallowdale Fell. The path went through grass, moss and stones over the moors, via Wolfhole Crag, where thankfully there were no wolves in holes.
A bit more bog and we made it up on to the Hornby Road, about a mile or so west of where we turned off last week. Our average speed had dropped to 2.2mph. The Hornby Road is a byway open to all traffic, we saw a couple of bikes on it before we got there and a landrover as we were walking along. The landrover was driving back just as I was picking up a balloon from the heathery ditch by the side of the track and they stopped and said they would take it with them.
The track became a lane at High Salter and we followed that, the quiet lane becoming a less quiet lane, then quiet a busy lane and then a blumming busy road. We were able to leave that before we got squipped and walk though Farleton and its old road to reach the Fenwick Arms.
We have had a good dinner and sit down while the lady at the next table posed the eternal question...
How many anvils did you buy?
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