Walking 7.40am to 4.30pm
Distance walked 16 miles
Distance remaining 146 miles
Yet another day promising good weather. The walk started with a long gradual ascent leading to open access land from where began the long but easy three mile ascent to Great Shunner Fell. Superb views all around. Then came the long descent the other side. Just before Thwaite I was caught up by Emily who was at last night's site and who I'd met along the way yesterday (18, just finished A levels and hoping to start university soon to study aerospace engineering) and Kevin, a Geordie, who was doing the PW carrying what appeared to be nothing more than a day pack.
In Thwaite we called at the Kearton Country Hotel tearoom for refreshments. The three of us then walked the long two miles to Keld where Emily went to find her campsite, I stopped for lunch by the falls and Kevin went on. Whereas when I sat down there was virtually no-one around, soon people appeared with cameras out to photograph the falls, a few of which almost stepped over me to get that special shot. I was glad to move on.
After a long ascent, it was an easy high level four miles to Tan Hill. I have a lovely quiet pitch with far reaching clear views towards Northumberland over lonely moorland. The Tan Hill Inn is the highest pub in the British Isles at 1,732ft.
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