11. Bagging the wainwrights - A Lakeland day out with Marie 🥾⛰️🥵😎☀️💦
Getting out on the hills walking is something which I love, and something which I have been keen to do more of. I’ve always walked, whether it be shorter walks around home, or greater challenges in more mountainous regions, particularly north west Scotland or the Lake District. One of my retirement activities has been to work my way through the Wainwright Lakeland fells. I know that I have done many over the years, but remembering exactly what I have done, and when, is a challenge 🤣 So complete with my new Wainwright Lakeland Fells map / chart, I have gradually been ticking off new conquests, only crediting past walks if I can actually remember the detail - so not many! 214 is the ultimate goal 😃 Today I had an epic planned - something completely new, and definitely not a walk I have done before - the Kentmere horseshoe 😃 I’d arranged to do this with my friend Marie, another Wainwright bagger - much more advanced than me though with her fell ticking off 🤣 We met in Kentmere, which ...