In this weeks video, Kay and I headed to the Lake District for a wild camp and to tackle a Wainwright Circuit in the Lake District. Who doesn't love bagging some Wainwrights when in the Lake District?
Due to an accident on the motorway the night before it took almost 4hrs to get to the Lakes so didn't have time to head to Seathwaite Fell where I had a pitch in mind for a Wild Camp - actually the same pitch where I stayed on my Mountain Leader course. Instead, we hiked for about 45 minutes and found a wild camping pitch in the Terra Nova Northern Light 2 before getting up early and driving to Seathwaite.
This circuit I planned for 5 Wainwrights however on the day we hit various summits and ended up leaving Glaramara before the 5th Wainwright to head back to Manchester to see my daughter. Ironically...we were so late and stuck in traffic heading back so had to see my daughter the following day so stopped in Keswick for food and a pint.
This circuit is just under 17km in length with around 1,200m of elevation and is a great route for some awesome views around the Lakes. Where do you think the best views is in the Lake District? This is certainly up there.
You could easily vary this and head to Scafell Pike after Great End although we wanted to keep to the circular route I'd planned and hit Glaramara - I just love saying that name! As always, link to the route is in the links section below.
I hope you enjoy the video, it's a long one but this it shows what it's like on the route and always enjoy taking Kay and seeing her push herself when she struggles on steep ground. Awesome job!
Tune in next week as I head back to Snowdon with a live long friend Gaz who was over from Australia. I haven't seen him for 9 years and we used to climb Snowdon regularly many years ago training for when we climbed Kilimanjaro back in 2010. I led him and his 4 brothers to the summit and was an awesome day out.
Hope you enjoy the video,.
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