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The Cranleigh Bowness-on-Windermere

Kendal Road Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

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Nick's place

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... check out the rules on the geocaching site if you haven't done this before :).

You can access the details without signing up as a member so here are the details. I was checking the site like a mad person for a couple of hours after it went live to see who would be the First to Find it... but then realised I get updates by ...

If at first you don't succeed...

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... was fine (for a change) and the ascent up across Glencoyne Beck was much easier than the route attempted last time (from Glenridding). With my new iphone app I was able to take a couple of GPS readings/waypoints along the route as a fallback for dealing with the return journey in case we got lost. The AW book states that Sheffield Pike should not be ascended in mist so I wanted to prepare for any change in the weather :).

As we approached Nick's ...

Glenridding Dodd but no Sheffield Pike this time

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... across the fells and at one point ended up face first in a large mound of bracken... fortunately just missing the muddy swamp beside it! We trundled on but lasted about 10 minutes after that before turning back and descending; defeated, wet and cold!

A tea shop stop at the bottom soon recuperated our sorry faces and we set out to hunt down a couple of geocaches before our return to ...

The Lake District!

A travel blog entry by jfinn

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... psychological trauma, and an empty whole in my wallet!

The difficulties unfortunately didn't end there... even though i requested to room with my friend Pam, the IFSA-Butler people kind of messed up, and not only didn't assign me a room with Pam, but the one they did assign me to wasn't in the same hostel, and I wasn't even supposed to be on the same coach bus. Luckily i weaseled my way onto the same bus, which is a good thing because the ride was ...

New Yorkshire, I Love You

A travel blog entry by rachelkw

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... everything from ammonites to cheese. Curiousity assuaged, the route took us up past Clapham Falls and across the estate of the Farrer family.

The Farrer family own the land and pay for the up-keep of the paths by charging access. As the toll for both of us together amounted to just 90p, I can't imagine they make much money. I have never seen anyone checking the tickets, which are run on an honesty box system. The path runs up through ...

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