It's not often you get a glorious day, forecast in advance, on a weekend, in March. And did you know it! As I drove over Dunmail Raise all the parking spots for the Helvellyn range were taken (at 8.30am) and the bottom of Dunmail only had a couple of spaces left. I began to worry that the plan to meet a friend at Elterwater at 9am might be too late.... I squeezed into one of the last spaces in the carpark just before 9am! The plan for the day was to go up Lingmoor Fell in the morning and then meet Molly who was taking part in the Mackyard Ultra in Langdale, running timed loops, leaving on the hour every hour, to run round the valley bottom. A cracking day on all counts.
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| The lane from Elterwater -lots of Chiff Chaffs calling. |
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| Herdies in the sun. |
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| Heading up onto the fell and the ridge's wall. |
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| Looking down onto the Mackyard set up. |
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| Heading out along the ridge. |
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| Looking into Langdale. |
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| And back into the valley to watch Molly competing. |
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| And they are off on another loop....those that survive to the end will have run 160 miles! |
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