C Walk

Keswick to Lodore

Leader: Sharron Murray

Photos: A selection from Sharron Murray and Christine Wood

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Unfortunately our leader for today was unable to join us due to a medical problem. Get well soon Christine. So I was a substitute; my fellow walkers didn't seem to mind. We were first off the coach, which had set off early because of the road closures for the Carlisle half-marathon; this was a problem, because we had planned to spend an hour in the shops. However it probably saved us a pile of cash as we window shopped instead. We walked through Hope Park to the Theatre on the Lake where we stopped for a brew and to get warm; we were frozen after strolling around town. Then off to Friars Crag where we avoided the busy view point and stopped to look at Ruskin's Monument instead, before going down to the water to admire the view from the millennium stone. We had lunch on a bench which had been vacated just as we got there, with a fabulous view across a misty lake to Cat Bells. Christine told me it had recently become steeper and higher. I believed her, as my legs had become shorter as well. The walk took us through the woods and along the lakeshore until we had to join the road for a short way before crossing to take the path to Lodore Falls. There was plenty of water coming over the falls which were beautiful. I then realised we had three minutes to get the bus so we hustled down the gate into the hotel as that would have been the shortest route, but they had barred it against us. Must have known we were coming. So we missed it. We eventually arrived at the Glaramara for a well earned sit down and the sad news that John Mackay had died that day. RIP.