Ashness Bridge and Walla Crag Distance 7½ Miles/ 12 Km Leaders: Tony Ingham Climbing 1200 Ft/ 365 M
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Vol:30 Issue 4 10th April 2016 KESWICK & BORROWDALE Coach leaves Borrowdale at 5.30pm PROGRAMME OF EVENTS April 2016 12 April Committee Meeting 7.30pm start County Hall, Preston All Members welcome. 14 April Thursday Car - Brock Bottoms 10.30am start - Sat Nav: PR3 0RP B: Bill Manning Meet at Bilsborrow Village Hall. 20 April Stroller Walk - Stanley Park 10.30am start - Sat Nav: FY3 8LS S: Bill Manning Meet at Sports Centre car park, then at Art Deco Cafe, Stanley Park. 24 April Sunday Car - Chipping 10:30pm start - Sat Nav: PR3 2QL B: Mary & Kevin McEnaney Meet at the car park near St Bartholomew's Church in Chipping. 27 April Grand Night Out (Wednesday) 07:30pm start -Sat Nav: PR4 5ZA Slide Show, Quiz and Raffle Held at The Longton VM Sports & Social Club, School Lane, Lo ngton. Tickets £6.00 including Hotpot & Apple Pie with cream, available from Committee Members. May 2016 08 May Coach - Conwy 8.00am start: Return 5.30pm A: Tal y Fan Leader: Dave Colbert B+: North Wales Coastal Path Leader: Val Walmsley B: Title Required Leader: Required C: Conwy Harbour Leader: Peter Stevens 12 May Thursday Car - Rivington 10.30am start - Sat Nav: BL6 7SB B: Allan Benson Meet at Rivington Hall Barn car park (Old Barn) . 27th April Slide Show, Fun Quiz Wednesday Evening Grand Night Out Raffle & Hotpot Supper Tickets £6 which includes a Hotpot Supper, Apple Pie & Cream. There will be a slide show of photographs taken by club walkers from the previous year, a Fun Quiz with Stephen Watson and Peter Stevens and a Raf fle. Drinks including tea, coffee and alcohol can be purchased on the night. Tickets available from Committee Members, or email [email protected] for details of how to buy tickets (Vegetarian option available if notified when buying ticket). Venue: The Lon gton VM Sports & Social Club, School Lane, Longton, Preston PR4 5ZA If you have any photographs from the last 12 months that are not on the website and you would like them to be included in the presentation, then please send them to me either by email (we bsite@pdwc), post (address on programme), or give them to a Committee member and they will be returned to you promptly. 11th June Saturday Free Event The Ley Inn, Clayton-le-Woods Map & Compass Day Includes Lunch This is your chance to learn or brush up on your Map & Compass skills. It is an all day event with the morning spent learning (brushing up) how to use a map & compass. After lunch which will be provided by the club, it is fun time trying out your newly lea rned skills. Members will be split into teams and then comp ete to finish a set course in the fastest time, but don't worry, each team will have an experienced guide to help if needed. If you would like to attend this great day out, please give your name to Chris Cook or Dorothy Dobson. Meet on The Ley Inn car park, Back Lane, Clayton -le-Woods (Sat Nav: PR6 7EU). Editor: Peter Stevens & Christine Orford, Email:[email protected] . Please Note - Walk Details must be in one week before each coach excursion. Today's Coach Walks starting points: A: Grange B+: Seatoller B: Keswick C: Grange Bridge Grade : A Distance 11 miles / 18 km Leader: Dave Colbert Dale Head & Hindscarth Climbing 3,600 ft / 1,100 m We start from Grange in Borrowdale and immediately head for High Spy (653m/2,143ft) by way of a breach in its crags known as High White Rake. Note that if the clag is down we will follow an alterna- tive route to Dalehead Tarn past Castle Crags. From Dalehead Tarn, a steep ascent above Dale- head Crags leads to Dale Head, at 753m/2,470ft the highest point of the walk and for those inter- ested in geology the boundary between the Skiddaw Slates to the north and the volcanic rocks of the central Lake District to the south. Our route then continues westward along the narrow Hindscarth Edge before veering northward to the summit of Hindscarth itself (727m/2,385ft). A lengthy descent along the narrow ridge from High Crags to Scope End leads down into the Newlands Valley where hopefully the bridge across Newlands Beck at the Goldscope mines survived the recent deluge. We head to Keswick via Skelgill, Overside Wood and Stormwater Bridge at Portinscale, which I am relia- bly informed is still there! Grade : B+ Distance 9¼ miles/ 15 km Leader: Dave Thornton High Spy & Cat Bells Climbing 2000 ft/ 610 m This is a linear walk starting at Seatoller and finishing in Keswick. Most of the climbing is at the start and we then follow a ridge which weather permitting will give us excellent views of the Borrowdale valley and Derwent Water. We start off on the Allerdale Ramble heading northwards and then follow Tongue Gill past Rigghead Quarries and then on to High Spy (653m) the highest point of the walk. We continue on the ridge to Maiden Moor and Cat Bells. We descend on Skellgill Bank and enter a wooded area, Fawe Park and then pass through Portinscale and on to Keswick. Grade : B Ashness Bridge and Walla Crag Distance 7½ miles/ 12 km Leaders: Tony Ingham Climbing 1200 ft/ 365 m The intention was to do a nice flat walk at Applethwaite, as specified in the programme, but the loss of footbridges in the winter floods around Keswick has meant this has not been possible. So we will have to climb a bit instead. Departing from Keswick town centre, we head south alongside Derwentwater to Great Wood in Bor- rowdale. From here we continue south to Ashness Bridge and it is from this point that the climbing begins. We rise to the top of Walla Crag at 1245ft. We have then bagged a Wainwright and the views from up there are superb (on a clear day!). We then descend to Rakefoot. From this point we should have gone back via Castlerigg, but the path that way is closed due to the destruction of yet another footbridge. Fortunately we can divert to miss this one and proceed along quiet residential roads back into Keswick. Grade : C Cumbria Way: Grange to Keswick Distance 6 miles / 9.7 km Leader: Joyce Bradbury Climbing 300 ft / 91 m Recced on a wet and windy Maundy Thursday. Not many signs of the disastrous floods until after Portinscale. An undulating walk with no stiles and little mud. Some road walking but mainly gritty for- est tracks. We leave the coach at Grange Bridge to cross into Grange where there are toilets. We make for the Cumbria Way and, passing through Manesty Park and Brandelhow Park, we reach Hawse End. From here we go through Overside Wood and skirt Fawe Park to arrive at Nichol End. This may still be closed although they seemed to be on top of the flood damage. Now we go into Portinscale to see how the other half live before crossing the footbridge onto the path through the devastated fields to Keswick, the coaches and refreshments. Please remove muddy boots before boarding the coach & check. that you take all your belongings with you. Thank you. .