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October Walks by members
| Central Howgills 2-day backpack
A 2-day transverse circuit of the central belt of the underrated Howgill fells, a trip that produced superb turbulent skies and clear views in the blustery autumnal weather stream. Our pitch in the Lakes a few days ago gave us a fine sunset, this time it was the turn of the sunrise to turn the eastern sky into fiery red ribbons of colour.
The idea for the route came from perusing our Memory-Map file of the Dewey 500m hills: there were six new tops to be visited in the Howgills, and climbing them all would lead me into plenty of new territory to explore. It would also be good fitness training, some of the route running East-West across the range and traversing the steep sided valleys.
| 16th October
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| Loweswatercam Buttermere Round the Lake
Another classic walk, not up but along this time. A popular low level walk but with fewer people today due to the weather. A forced diversion adds to the height climbed on this more or less level walk.
| 16th October | 
| Loweswatercam Helm Crag with the Leslies
A classic Greenburn Round starts with an ascent of Steel Fell and ends with a descent of Helm Crag. We join David Leslie, Ros and Douglas on this fine but not so fine walk.
| 15th October
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| Loweswatercam An OFC Walk up Ullock Pike with Dave and Ros
This walk started out with David, Ros, Gary and Sheena arranging to meet up for a walk. Someone told the OFC and loads of others turned up, including six friends for their two dogs, Rosie and Holly.
| 12th October
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| Loweswatercam High Spy via Nitting Haws
The weather was fine after a day of torrential rain the day before. Time to head up on to the fells. With Roger at work, it was just John, Jo, myself and the four dogs today. | 11th October
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| Loweswatercam Eskdale Falls and Hard Knott
It's a beautiful day but my diary says work, so I drive to Keswick only to realise that I had arranged to swop days and wasn't needed ! A quick phone call and I'm back home, packing a rucksack with lunch, and we drive over to Eskdale.
| 5th October
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| Kentmere Fells 2-day backpack
A short circuit of the far eastern fells above Kentmere, essentially a repeat of the walk we did in 2004.
This was yet another window of opportunity seized in a rapidly moving weather stream, when a band of torrential rain cleared southwards leaving very clear northerly air in its wake for the first leg, but reverting to windswept mist overnight. The views were magnificent throughout the first day but there were some quite dramatic local vistas in the morning of the second as the sun and mist fought their battle of the elements.
We were quite stunned by the activity of the National Park since our last visit: on High Street and Yoke there are now extensive wide surfaced highways snaking across the fells that are essentially roads, and certainly appear as such from a distance. We really wonder what the motivation is for all this and where it will all end. | 5th October
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| Loweswatercam Great How at Thirlmere
A fine day was forecast but so was a certain amount of work. However we were able to get out before the light failed and consequentially enjoyed a delightful walk up Great How and great views of the Thirlmere Valley.
| 3rd October |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 November 2008 )
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"On Saturday we met up with Ann and Roger Hiley, John Paterson and Terry Gargrave for a walk up High Rigg and on Monday we met Paul Harrison on Pike O'Stickle. It was a real pleasure meeting everybody and we enjoyed every minute." Dave Leslie
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