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Skiddaw

Date:
23.12.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
2:30h

Kom ned fra Great Gable og tok en liten lunsjpause på bensinstasjonen i Keswick. Og så dro jeg på en liten tur til Skiddaw for å utnytte resten av dagslys (mange timer med dagslys her, flere enn 7 timer!!). Parkerte ved Underscar hotel og fulgte stien opp fjellet. Her var det skikkelig fint vær, ihvertfall den første halvtimen på tur opp. Deretter skyet det til og det var surt med sterk kuling helt til topps og ned igjen. Men det var likevel godt med å ha fått litt påfyll av vitamin D :)

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Great Gable

Date:
23.12.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:00h

Tok en liten morgentur opp Great Gable med start fra Seathwaite. Få folk ut på tur da jeg var der men møtte flere på vei ned. Mer overskyet enn som var meldt (#lurtavBBC??) men likevel ingen regn. Altfor mildt for denne årstiden og helt snø- og isfritt. Gadd ikke med å lete etter en lunsjplass i le for vinden så jeg gikk ned til bilen igjen og kjørte litt nordover mot Skiddaw hvor gikk en kjapp etter-lunsj tur.

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Skiddaw

Date:
13.06.2015
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

Gikk en liten fottur med mora og søstera mi mens vi var i nordvest England i helgen. Var ikke så motiverende vær og ganske tung, disig luft men likevel ganske tørt. Bra sti hele veien men ingen utsikt på toppen. Artig å gå på tur med familien som turfølge, selv om det krevde litt tålmodighet for å gå mye saktere!

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Damp day in Langdale

Date:
07.12.2013
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
5:00h
Distance:
9.5km

Var i Storbritannia noen dager i forbindelse med et møte, så brukte anledning for en tur med gamle venner. Dessverre var været like dårlig som var meldt og lørdagen ble jeg søkkvått til tross for at jeg hadde nylig impregnert jakken min. Antar at det på tide å kjøpe ny vanntett jakke nå ;-) Vi begynte turen fra parkeringsplassen like ved Stickle Barn puben og gikk opp mot Blea Rigg istedenfor å bruke stien som går rett opp til Stickle Tarn. Deretter gikk vi videre i retning Easedale Tarn, spiste en liten lunsj der før vi fortsatte opp til Tarn Crag. Ikke god sikt i dag og det var vanskelig å kjenne området som jeg skulle vært ganske kjent med. Derfra var det bare å gå tilbake til Stickle Barn igjen ved å gå ned til Codale Tarn, krysse elva og gå opp på en god sti over >>>

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Helvellyn via Brown Cove

Date:
16.08.2013
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
3:30h
Distance:
7.0km

After a looooong week at a conference in Lancaster I finally got to meet up with my friend Sue in the Lake District. Nice to have a friend with transport too :-) We didn't have a plan when we met up in Penrith but finally decided to try a scrambling route on Brown Cove crag instead of taking one of the normal paths up Helvellyn. Looked like we would be fairly lucky with the weather, even though it looked still pretty dull and cloudy when we drove along the A66 towards Keswick. Anyway, we started from the Swirls car park by Thirlmere and followed the footpath up towards Brown cove. The scrambling guide said we ought to take off from the path at a broken wall, but since we had not seen any wall at all on the way up it seemed a bit confusing. We walked in toward the cove when it looked like we >>>

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Helm Crag

Date:
16.08.2013
Characteristic:
Walk
Duration:
1:30h
Distance:
7.0km

Took a short walk up Helm Crag after our trip to Helvellyn earlier in the day. Parked up outside of Grasmere since there was little space along the road in the town. Went up fairly briskly in trainers. It was a little bit boring, except for the top 10m which involved a little scrambling. Cloudy but fortunately no rain until we were nearly back down again.

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Helvellyn

Date:
17.02.2013
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

Since I had to catch a train from Windermere in the afternoon, I decided just to take a short morning trip along a route I knew well, beginning in Grasmere and passing over the tops of Dollywagon Pike, Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn. I had a plan to descend back down to Swirls and walk through the forest back to Grasmere but in the end I decided to be lazy and get a bus back to the village instead. Had really nice weather - blue skies, sunshine and it was not cold. Well, that's not exactly true. It wasn't cold in the start of the day when I was walking up Tongue Gill, but by the time I reached Grisedale Hause, there was a massive strong wind coming up from the south, and that made it pretty difficult to walk at times. Thought there might be a bit of shelter behind one of the walls on Helvellyn's >>>

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The Coledale classic

Date:
13.12.2012
Characteristic:
Hillwalk
Duration:
5:00h
Distance:
16.0km

Only one day after I thought I'd had the best welcome back to Lakeland, I was treated to yet another cracking day out on the fells with more unbelievably good weather and views which were very pleasing on the eye! There were of course so many of my favourite routes I could have chosen to do, but this hike was a bit closer to the youth hostel I was staying at and quite conveniently had a free parking place at the start of the route. I first did the route 11 years ago and on all occasions I have been back and repeated it, it has never failed to bring a smile to the face even though it isn't much of a strenuous walk. It takes in 6 tops in a 16km circuit around Coledale which lies a few miles outside of Keswick in the northern end of the Lake District. There are several other tops which can be >>>

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Scafell Pike

Date:
12.12.2012
Characteristic:
Hike
Distance:
12.0km

There isn't anything quite as pleasing as a good hike in familiar surroundings, with superb weather and solid snow. Quite surprisingly this trip satisfied all three criteria (not something which often happens in this corner of England) and made it a very enjoyable day out in the UK hills again. After a quiet night spent in the Borrowdale youth hostel, my friend Sue and I headed for Scafell Pike with the intention of going up the Corridor route which goes around the north-western side of the mountain. In the summer time Scafell Pike usually has a reputation for attracting big crowds and it doesn't end up being the nicest experience. But today we were really fortunate and saw very few other hikers, maybe half a dozen close to the summit but none on our route up! The approach toward Styhead Tarn >>>

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Langdale circuit

Date:
07.04.2012
Characteristic:
Hillwalk

A chilled out day walk with a group of walkers I met in Langdale. We headed up toward Red tarn below Pike of Blisco first, then up the nice gentle slopes to Long Top. From there you get nice views over the Langdale valley, and then a little bit of excitement to do the Bad Step to get to the second top on Crinkle Crags. More undulating walking follows before reaching Three Tarns, from where we took a quick dash to the top of Bowfell and then back down the Band to return to Great Langdale. A nice day, but not all that challenging in terms of strenuousness. Still, it was a pleasant weather and good company too.

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