A trip with the express purpose of having my first wild camp. I chose an area I’d visited before, with reasonable options for a bail out if needed, but which also gave the opportunity to revisit places I’d not been for a while, some favourite places and to mop up some fells missing from my bag.
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| Day 1: Friday 4 May | |
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| Travelling up to the Lakes and a walk up to Codale Tarn for my first ever wild camp. | |
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| Day 2: Saturday 5 May | |
| A walk over the Langdale Pikes, a meal stop in Borrowdale and a camp on Rosthwaite Fell. | |
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| Day 3: Sunday 6 May | |
| A walk along the Glaramara ridge and descent to Langdale. | |
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| Day 4: Monday 7 May | |
| The end of the trip. | |
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The Route
Trip stats
| Total Distance | 24.82 miles (39.94 km) |
| Total Ascent | 1,771m |
| Total Descent | 1,782m |
| Total Walking Time | 13 hours 55 mins |
| Average Speed | 1.78 mph (2.87 kph) |
| Flat-Equivalent Distance | 36.63 miles (58.94 km) |
| Flat-Equivalent Speed | 2.63 mph (4.24 kph) |
| New Trail 100s | 0 |
| New Marilyns | 0 |
| New Hewitts | 1 |
| New Nuttalls | 4 |
| New Wainwrights | 1 |
| New Birketts | 4 |
Hills Bagged
| Date | Hill# | Name | Ā T | Ā Ma | Ā Hew | Ā Ne | Ā W | Ā WO | Ā B |
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| Ā 05/05/12 | 2407 | Sergeant Man | Ā – | – | – | – | R | – | R |
| Ā 05/05/12 | 2396 | High Raise | Ā R | Ā R | R | R | R | – | R |
| Ā 05/05/12 | 2413 | Thunacar Knott | Ā – | – | – | R | R | – | R |
| Ā 05/05/12 | 2417 | Pike of Stickle | Ā R | – | R | R | R | – | R |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2467 | Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot) | – | – | – | – | 159 | – | 252 |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2453 | Rosthwaite Cam | Ā – | – | – | 147 | – | – | 253 |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2447 | Dovenest Top | – | – | 139 | 148 | – | – | 254 |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2431 | Combe Door Top | – | – | – | 149 | – | – | – |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2408 | Combe Head | – | – | – | 150 | – | – | 255 |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2389 | Glaramara | R | – | R | R | R | – | R |
| Ā 06/05/12 | 2388 | Allen Crags | – | – | R | R | R | – | R |
“R” denotes a repeat visit to a fell already bagged. A number indicates how many of that type of hill have been bagged.
Great blog- how did you manage to get your route logged to a map and pasted to your blog,
I would be most interested to find out the process thanks
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I use Anquet digital mapping to plan my routes. The picture in the blog is simply a screen capture (ALT+Print Screen in Windows) that’s then pasted into Powerpoint as a picture. I then crop it and add in other pictures/shapes etc to annotate the map. Then select the whole thing and save as a picture from Powerpoint. I do this in Powerpoint because it’s easiest to save the end picture from there. The process would clearly also work if you scanned or photographed a paper map marked up with your route.Hope that helps.
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