Saturday & Kentmere Reservoir
Richard and Ali came over to the Lakes this weekend… Snow was forecast, yet Saturday morning dawned cold and clear, though that didn’t last long. No sooner than we’d arrived at the parking area in Kentmere and the snow had really started to fall hard and was settling at all levels. This ruined our plan to nip round the Kentmere horseshoe as we were a bit late starting and a little under equipped for winter conditions on the fells. However, we did enjoy those conditions, got some much needed fresh air, and saw a large mob of deer. We had a long discussion about what a group of deer was called – at first we thought it would just be a herd, but later (with inter-web help) learned it could also be called a mob! β
Dinner at the Eagle & Child
It’s my birthday soon (eugh, yet another year older!) so we headed out to the Eagle & Child for a few beers and some great pub-food on Saturday evening.
Sunday & Scandale Fell
We weren’t really sure what the weather on Sunday would deliver – many forecasts seemed to be suggesting that a warm and wet front would come in from the west. But no, the massive cold weather system in Russia was winning and we were greeted with clear skies as we emerged from our slumbers…
The question that remained was what to do to entertain ourselves. We had thought to go to Kendal wall, but the awesome snowy scene outside beckoned. Eventually we decided to get out and locate a Lakeland Letterbox on High Pike above Ambleside.
GPX File Uploads
The regular visitors to the blog and authors will have noted the new mapping features in this report…
After a little teasing about providing the ability to trace the routes taken on adventures I have taken up the challenge and enhanced the country plugin to allow authors to upload GPX files (e.g. from GPS enabled devices). Then, with a simple link to the GPX file (e.g. <a href='http://domain/path/file.gpx'>file.gpx</a>), the link is automatically replaced with Google mapping showing the track of an adventure.
Hope it’s of use in future reports… π
Pete, is that the smart look? Light coloured trousers, no hat, no gloves and more importantly no pack (as usual).
Cool π
My pack is on the ground out of shot where I dropped it to get the camera out (which was kindly operated by a lady who, with her friends, was also enjoying the wonderful weather).
The scenery looks fantastic!
Yeah, it was a great day – not many people voting for their favourite pictures these days though … ?
Wow, wow wow, looks like the Lakes was the place to be, we didn’t get much snow up here in Scotland and it wasn’t very nice out last weekend either!