After all the mileage on Saturday, me and Haz woke up Sunday morning at Castlerigg campsite feeling a bit leg achey (to say the least). All the same we were determined to make the best of the weekend so we drove down to Coniston to run a fabulous loop of Wetherlam, Swirl How and The Old Man of Coniston.
Although the climb up Wetherlam went 'on a bit' and the climb up Swirl How was a 'kind of' steepish, it was plain sailing after that with a lovely ridgeline to run to the Old Man followed by a fabulous, albeit a bit jelly leggy, descent back down to our starting point in Coniston. This we swiftly followed with a swim in the lake and followed that with what might possibly be the best burger I've ever eaten at the
Swallows and Amazons tea room.
In the end it was a as near as damn it 29 miles and 12,000 ft of climb weekend and 53 miles and over 16,000 ft of climb for the week as a whole. Let the pre-Bob Graham relaxing commence....
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| On the way up Wetherlam with Coniston Water beyond |
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| The Old Man hidden by cloud |
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| the cairn at the top of Wetherlam |
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| Me and the boy at the summit of Swirl How |
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| A Herdie |
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| Looking towards the summit of TOMOC |
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| Far left Swirl How with Wetherlam to the right |
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| Harry looking to do a length of Coniston Water |
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| A pretty damn good burger |
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| Our loop |
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