A 7km run on a bright frosty Valentine’s Day.
Route: leaving the car in the car park of the Swinside Inn (at 11:15am and with permission) and running towards the foot of Catbells (past many cars parked on double yellow lines) carefully crossing patches of ice on the road before turning right to Skelgill. Here taking a slight left angle on a tack rising gradually with views over the valley before descending to a foot bridge over Yewthwaite Gill and into Little Town.
Turning right along the road for 100m and then right onto a muddy track and then a damp grassy path on often frozen marshy ground to reach Skelgill, again. Turning left down the road to the crossroads and then right up hill to the pub.
Conditions: 1C, frozen ground and bright sun.
Pub: the Swinside Inn for Timothy Taylor’s Landlord.
