Hill Hike #2 B&B's from Mungrisdale

Much to Caroline's annoyance it was back over to the easy access fells of the Lakes. A longer route from Mungrisdale via the old Victorian track to Bowcale tarn, we briefly parted company here as I fancied the treck around the tarn and up and over tarn Crags. A slight error of judgement as the path proved slightly less pathy and definitely steeper than me and my knees remembered. No harm done I caught up with Cazza on the top where she proudly displayed the book she'd 'swagged' on the hill.

I headed up the steep section - top left

From here it was on to Bannerdale Crags - then doble back to the haus and round white horse bent. And then the long treck back along the riverside to Mungrisdale and a welcome cider in the local.

Distance - 10 miles
Ascent - 670m
Time - 4 hours

Wainwrights- 2,  3/214
Munros - 0

And the fb update

I could get used to this half-day thing :). Beetled across to the lakes at lunch time in order to continue the rehabilitation of He Of The New Knees and had a very pleasant 14km on the fells, spolit only by Bonner's statement that the Loch Ness Monster is a myth (he threw it in as a curve-ball when we were engaged in our ongoing 'invigorating' debate about whether dinosaurs actually existed or not, or whether - as Bonners insists - the fossil record is just a big joke and that paleontologists ought to get themselves proper jobs. It's an argument that has raged for the last 5 years and is unlikely to run out of fuel any time in the near future. NB: he believes in zombies). Anyway, the only possible response to such an offensive and outrageous statement was to douse him with water from my platypus (he probably doesn't believe in them either because they'll look weird) pack and ban him from ever setting foot in Scotland again.
Nessie not real!!! I mean, whoever heard of such a thing?! It's an absolute scandal. Of COURSE Nessie's real