This day is known as the toughest day of the hike. We decided to do something about that. We took an alternate route which we think required a little more mileage but kept us off the tallest mountain on the trail. We've been hiking pretty slowly and were afraid that we would run out of daylight on the long walk to Shap.
The day started with a surprise. As we were walking to the general store to get directions for the alternate route, we saw a giant ball of fire in the sky. The locals call it the sun.
Our alternate route involved a walk to the town of Glenridding and then a cruise on the Western Belle to Howtown. From there we walked north along the lake before joining a trail towards Bampton (very friendly people) and Shap. We walked around the last of the mountains in the lake district. We will now be heading into the Yorkshire Dales. I hope that after finding out that lake is code for mountain that it doesn't turn out the dales is code for something like "fast moving streams of attack lava"
Boat and walk scenes
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| Nancy complained that there are no pictures of me |
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| Both Earl and I felt we had been transported to the Cotswolds here |
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| another one for Nancy |
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| The trail runs right between houses |
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| Looking toward Shap Abbey |
We arrived at Brookfield House at about 4:30. Plenty of daylight left. Margaret served us tea and some delicious fresh-baked scones and then we went to the pub for dinner. Tomorrow is the shortest day of the trip - 7 miles to Orton.
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| A house in Shap |
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