A short CADAS volunteer walk (for Lois, not Tim), led by Mick on a Monday morning
Route: Leaving the parking area at Low Gelt Bridge along the road to the west, and turning south at the crossroads to walk up the hill and join a narrow path heading left to cross Low Gelt (sand) Quarry and lead on to a track beside a motocross track and then fields, bearing right round Watch Hill and then following a track southeast, with long views of Skiddaw to the southwest, for about a kilometre to reach a minor road. Here turning left to follow the road a short distance east to cross a bridge over the River Gelt and turn left to follow the river gorge initially north through Gelt Woods. After about a kilometre reaching the junction with Hell Beck and flight of steps and then winding left, with the gorge, past the spectacular cliffs of the Roman sandstone quarries and continuing on northwest, partly along a narrow paved sandstone shelf, back to the car park.
Conditions: Cool and breezy in the shade initially but warm in the sun and dry throughout!
Pub? None today (all driving back to different points of the compass for lunch).
