A 10-mile jog from home on dark and wintry Saturday afternoon (L only)
Route: Up round the station to Helmside Road (closed for 9 weeks for roadworks - 1ft trench cut along the first stretch today) and along to Burton Road, then running south along this as far as Barrows Green. Turning left up Helm Mount and on to Underhelm (Lane?) past the two Underhelm Farms (walking from halfway up the chevroned bit) to join the main road and turn left to the Station Inn. There turning right to run all the way along Hayclose Road and then Paddy Lane as far as the railway bridge just before the Appleby Road. Returning to the Station Inn the same way to head down through Glen, under the railway tracks
and home.
Conditions: Wet underfoot and dark with low cloud but dry with a light breeze until the turnaround - then rain and wind closing in and views disappearing (hence no photos!)
Pub? Liquorice and peppermint tea - and, much later, out to Corner 124 with Anne and Frank for Frank’s birthday
