Friday 16/04/2010. Yesterday was quite a long day of walking and climbing I think I did about 21 miles in total taking in seven new "Birkett summits". As I had no chance of making Borrowdale in time to catch the last bus back to Keswick I walked till early evening and made my second wild camp of the walk just above Sty Head Tarn close to the Mose's Trod path where it joins the Sty Head track near the mountain rescue box. (See my picture). The cliffs behind me belong to the east face of Cam Spout towering over the Corridor Route to Scawfell. I had a fine and comfortable night and in the morning ambled down past the tarn saying hello to a few folks who were making the early morning climb up to the Scawfells etc. I spoke with two north-east lads who were heading to Lingmell to complete their round of the "Wainwrights" and I wished them well. By the coincidence of things they were fellow members of the Online Fellwalking Club (OFC) and on Lingmell encountered another member of the OFC amazingly also completing his Munro round on Lingmell. This surprising conjunction of Wainwright completions is written up with photographs on the Hiley website: www.loweswatercam.co.uk/visitors 18.htmlwhich is how I came to learn of my small part in it all! It's a grand sunny morning to end my walk and I have timed it to perfection as I reach Seatoller the Borrowdale Rambler (bus) pulls in and with the flash of the magic that is a bus pass I am soon in Keswick for a wash clean up and preparation for my final outing of this visit, to Wetherlam and the Coniston Fells around the Greenburn valley. Monday, 26 April 2010
END OF MY WASDALE WALK
Friday 16/04/2010. Yesterday was quite a long day of walking and climbing I think I did about 21 miles in total taking in seven new "Birkett summits". As I had no chance of making Borrowdale in time to catch the last bus back to Keswick I walked till early evening and made my second wild camp of the walk just above Sty Head Tarn close to the Mose's Trod path where it joins the Sty Head track near the mountain rescue box. (See my picture). The cliffs behind me belong to the east face of Cam Spout towering over the Corridor Route to Scawfell. I had a fine and comfortable night and in the morning ambled down past the tarn saying hello to a few folks who were making the early morning climb up to the Scawfells etc. I spoke with two north-east lads who were heading to Lingmell to complete their round of the "Wainwrights" and I wished them well. By the coincidence of things they were fellow members of the Online Fellwalking Club (OFC) and on Lingmell encountered another member of the OFC amazingly also completing his Munro round on Lingmell. This surprising conjunction of Wainwright completions is written up with photographs on the Hiley website: www.loweswatercam.co.uk/visitors 18.htmlwhich is how I came to learn of my small part in it all! It's a grand sunny morning to end my walk and I have timed it to perfection as I reach Seatoller the Borrowdale Rambler (bus) pulls in and with the flash of the magic that is a bus pass I am soon in Keswick for a wash clean up and preparation for my final outing of this visit, to Wetherlam and the Coniston Fells around the Greenburn valley. 
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