Today didn't start out quite how I thought it would. Setting off at a decent time to get to the Lake District I thought we were on track for an early start to a walk. That is until we opted to take a side road to Far Sawrey instead of keeping on the main road to Near Sawrey. What a road! Ordinarily I would have enjoyed the twists and turns, but knowing we had to park and knowing that daylight is still limited at this time of year, it was really frustrating! Especially as we couldn't find anywhere to park and ended up heading for the carpark in Hawkshead instead.
So, we finally set off. Not quite the walk we'd planned. Heading out of Hawkshead we walked up towards Claife Heights, ending up at Moss Eccles Tarn for lunch.
We had lunch looking out over Moss Eccles Tarn after finding our second Geocache of the day. It seemed a good place to stop before heading up towards High Blind How via Three Dubs Tarn.
We opted to take the high path overlooking Windermere. Except we couldn't, thanks to forestry operations in the area.
What was really annoying is that this was about half way along the path and there hadn't been any sign saying that the path was closed!! To turn round would mean retracing a good 3 hour walk, something we didn't want to do. So we had to try and find a way through branches and felled trees until we managed to get back on a good path. We even helped out another couple who were trying to do the same path!
So, back on track and off to Latterbarrow. Finally. With views over Windermere.
Then the final leg back to Hawkshead and the van before the light disappeared.
Not quite the walk I thought we were going on, but a good one all the same. And home for steak and chips 😊
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