A Plan B Day
It was incredibly windy this morning and after a disturbed
night it was a right grumpy camper who looked out over the sea of billowing
tents and rocking campervans. Only a
couple of pitches away a heavy framed gazebo had damaged two vehicles when it
blew away during the night, so I was surprised to see a bloke gamely set up his
table outside. Seconds later it blew
away straight into the side of the vehicle in front of us.
Now I accept I am well into grumpy old bloke territory, but
I couldn't help ranting at the stupidity of some people. The final straw however, was watching the
bloke opposite me allow his dog to wander over and take a piss on my pitch and
then observe as it wandered over to the next pitch to pee all over their
electric cable.
This was at least tempered with the satisfaction of some
instant karma when the dog owner's back was turned and the dog pissed up his
tent and all over his unlit BBQ.
Ranting aside, this wind was way stronger than yesterday and
our planned route over Dove Crag to bag High Hartsop Dodd did not really
appeal. Perhaps a more sensible choice
was to come up with a plan
involving lower hills.
Brock Crags at 561m fitted the bill, so a little later than
planned we found ourselves wandering alongside Brothers Water and then up
through Hartsop again.
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| Brothers Water with our plan A route beyond. |
Just before the
parking area we headed leftwards out of the village to pick up a path leading
from Calf Close. This led along the
southern slopes of Brock Crags and gave good views of yesterdays route over
Gray Crag and Hartsop Dodd.
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| Hartsop Dodd |
The going was easy and despite some strong gusts we soon
bagged the Wainwright top, along with all of the surrounding high points just for
the hell of it.
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| Brock Crags Cairn and the view towards Angle Tarn |
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| Brothers Water |
Summit and tops achieved we had
a gentle wander over to Angle Tarn and then on to Boredale Hause. From here we headed down and back along the
valley to the Sykeside.
An easy day leaving us 98 Wainwright's to go.
