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01.06.06 Robin Hood's Stride and Rowter Rocks I did this walk with my wife. We started in Birchover, walked to the bottom of the high street past the Druid Inn, we cut east across a field and joined the footpath up to Robin Hood's Stride where we had a picnic. We then took a look at the view from Cratcliffe Rocks, back tracked to the Druid Inn and clambered up to Rowter Rocks which can be found hidden in the trees behind the Inn. The weather was perfect. In the evening we had dinner at the Druid Inn and then got hammered in Youlgrave.
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01.08.07 Thorpe Cloud Today's weather was scorchio! I was staying in Crich with the family for a few days. I got up around 5am and spent about 1 hour driving around looking for the village Thorpe. I had in my head that as I share the name Thorpe i should get free stuff from Thorpe. Maybe even treated like a celebrity. Anyway, to great relief there was a toilet at the start of this walk. I ascended from around the back via the stepping stones, took a few snaps and then made my way back. All in approximately 1 hour. A very picturesque walk that I really should have extended to Milldale. I'll save that for another day. There was no need for power snacks. |
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01.09.07 Scafell Pike Today's weather was mostly cloudy and cold. The summit was buried in a rain cloud and we got soaked. Visibility was near zero from half way. We started at Seathwaite Farm and took the path to Stockley Bridge, followed Grains Gill but ignoring Sprinkling Tarn, turned left and then right up to Esk Hause and then right again up to Great End, past Broad crag to descend briefly then back up to the summit. Oh did i say we got soaked?! Power snacked on bananas and a mars bar. Had steak and ale pie in a pub in Cockermouth. |