| Date ... | Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
| Distance ... | 4.25 miles |
| Ascent ... | 530 feet |
| Time ... | 2 hours 15 mins |
| Weather ... | 16 ºC, fresh E winds, cloudy with sunny spells and some heavy showers |
| Summits ... | No summits climbed |
| Start ... | Rosthwaite village - National Trust pay + display car park (NY258144) |
| Maps ... | Ordnance Survey - Outdoor Leisure Nº4 (1:25,000) or Landranger Nº90 (1:50,000) |
| Books ... | Pictorial Guide Nº4 by Alfred Wainwright (ISBN 9780711226586) |
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We were staying at The Royal Oak Hotel in Rosthwaite for a long weekend before I flew out to Nepal for my Everest Base Camp trek. It had rained really heavy all day on the Thursday, we had delayed driving over, the weather was so bad. When we eventually arrived at the hotel, just before 3pm, the weather was showing signs of improving a little. So we decided to give Tim a walk along the river before dinner. The river was really full after the heavy rain, and there was loads of water standing on the paths, even Tim started trying to find some dry spots before the end of the walk!
Looking down Borrowdale, with Lingmell in the cloud in the far distance
Tim trying to avoid the large puddles at we walked along the lane towards Eagle Crag
The sun started to break through in places, but there was still plenty of grey clouds over Honister Pass
Sunlight on Eagle Crag
The rain still hadn't finished for the day and we had plenty of showers
A dark broody view of Eagle Crag
High Spy in the far distance from the footbridge over Greenup Gill
Eagle Crag and Greenup Gill
A rather full Langstrath Beck
The quiet hamlet of Stonethwaite
The flooded road leading to the village!
Looking back towards Eagle Crag as we walked back to the hotel
Finally back at the hotel, time for a bath and get ready for dinner!
The route map from our walk. Click here to download the GPX file for this walk
The height profile of our walk
I hope that you have enjoyed looking at the photograph's from this walk? If you have any questions or comments regarding them or the walk in general, please either by leaving me a message below, or send me an email, and I will get back to you asap. Thanks Gary ...
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Our previous walk was to Little Langdale
Our next walk was a visit to Castle Crag
Other Lake District walks 2009 walks journalAll of the photograph's from this walk were taken using my Sony A700 camera + Sony DT 18-70 mm lens
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