A snowy stroll the day after it all fell causing so much traffic chaos it featured on national radio!Route: leaving the car in the parish church car park (£2.50 for 2 hours) and walking along Kirkland, up Gillinggate and across to Captain French Lane to Garth Heads and the monument. Then up Mount Pleasant to Serpentine Road to enter Serpentine Woods at the first gate. Following paths to trend uphill and then exit the woods onto the golf course just beside the premier sledging run in Kendal it turned out. Then trudging through deep snow to the north to reach the edge of the golf course and have a chance meeting with Dave Cope. Descending the main path across the golf course to re-enter the Woods and exit at the bottom of the Tramway. Then back along Garth Heads and down to the high street, detouring back via Abbot Hall (to look at its new signage) and the Parish Church.
Conditions: several inches of snow underfoot (and lots more uplegs!) not cold.
Pub: the Ring o’ Bells for Gan Yam APA and Bowland Brewery Hoppy Christmas.
