After Saturday's shenanigans up on the tops, on Sunday Hester, Harry and I decided to opt out of another wind blasted visit to the summits and, as we were in that neck of the woods, do a run around the edge of
Thirlmere instead. Its an absolutely glorious
11 mile route along wooded trails, never straying very far from the lake side, and, even though you'd expect a lake side trail to be pretty flat, we managed to climb about 1,600 feet all told, helped by a visit to the top of Great How as part of our circuit.
A lovely trot out followed by tea and cake at
Low Sizergh Barn near Kendal (where we bumped into Nigel and a limping Pat from the day before). Its a very popular tea rooms and farm shop with the added advantage of a cow milking barn viewing area with a "cow cam" set up in the tea room itself (yes, really!).
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| Thirlmere from Great How |
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| Hester playing "Titanic" |
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| Harry lurking by the lake |
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| Feeling knackered! |
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| Mossy stone walls with knobs on! |
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| Watch out for 'gators |
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