>>435101Yep, Lancaster is worse than usual lately too cos of the 74 weeks worth of road works ongoing. And it was already like 3rd worst for traffic in the country I think. Wouldn't have mattered anyway, even setting off on-time that was over ambitious.
Once we got up to the top of the hill from Grasmere, we realised we were walking so slow with all the layers on and wind blowing that we weren't going to make it by a long shot. So we picked our way down this hill into Great Langdale valley, real slow going, and eventually met you on the road for all of 2 minutes. Pitched up at a camp site just before dark at about 3:30pm. It had all the facilities: Drying room, showers, those dog kennels people sleep in, hot tea and mince pies. We were done setting up camp and eating our tea by 4pm so we went to the pub for a few hours. Then in the morning we just walked along the Cumbria Way back to Chapel. We got a lift up from Lancaster, so just called and had the pickup time and location moved. We walked a grand total of 4km on the second day.
Not exactly a rough outdoors trip with a chance of dying... except drowning in the rain in the morning. I'm just glad to have gotten out for the first time since summer regardless of the shitty weather.
