just back from one nights camping in the lake district. We camped on a small farm next to the Kings Head Inn at Thirlspot near Keswick. We took the old pony route as described in Wainwrights Pictorial Guide book 1. Straight up from the back of the farm to the top of white side which is 2600 feet of ascent. We walked from there along to Lower Man and then onto the top of Helvellyn which is 3118 feet high the 3rd highest peak in the Lake District. The weather was again not kind to us and visabilty was low which spoilt any view from the top but our waterproofs kept us dry. We stopped at the wall shelter at the summit for a rest and our lunch. We then carried on down over Browncove Crags down the staircase route and back along to Thirlspot. This walk took aprox 5 hours to complete from start to finish
Archive for August, 2007
Helvellyn from Thirlspot
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Weekend Holiday In Northumberland
Friday, August 3rd, 2007well for a change from the lakes we went for a weekend staying in a caravan park at sandy bay caravan park in northumberland,using it as a base we had a few trips up the coast to visit Craster & Seahouses. Craster is famous for its smoked kippers and one of the last firms to do this is still going strong today, you can see the smoke clouds over the factory room from a distance and they have a small shop to the side of the smoke house selling their products, just over the bay from the smoke house you can see Dunstanburgh Castle which we visited by taking a stroll following the footpath along by the coast, later on we then went up the coast to Seahouses for fish & chips, the fish from these shops is all fresh and about the size of a baby whale lol, if you visit seahouses dont forget to call into the small ice cream shop after your fish & chips as their ice cream is spot on.