Saturday saw a lesiurely walk round the two small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, with lunch at a rather nice cafe at Grasmere.
Stats: 5.75 miles, 1000ft ascent
Parked in small car park over a bridge,just south of Rydal Village. From there we walked round the lakes clockwise - climbing up a little to get some fantastic views over Rydal Water. On the way up, we found some caves, one needed about 10 foot of climbing to get into (I failed) and the other was very easy to get into over some stepping stones.
There are several paths above Rydal Water, and all seem to go roughly inthe ditrection we wanted to go. As we were with Will’s dad and friends, there was a tea stop part way through this stage :-), where we met a very tame robin that was clearly hungry, and actually flew up about a foot from me to investigate my snack. Got one good pic of him.
From here we took some Roads into Grasmere, dropping down to walk alongside the lake. This happily brought us to lunch time. While they finished lunch, I wandered over to Cotswold outdoor / Rock Bottom - and was pleased to find exactly what I was after on offer - a Montane Aero for £25. Another post coming up about this.
Out of Grasmere, and up a path past dove cottage and the Wordsworth centre. The path leads rount to Rydal Mount and House - but the gardens were closed. Finally after a couple of Pics of the water coming down the rocks, it was back to car, and a Quick Browse round Ambleside.
