This year's caravanning in a picture

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  • Bellsboy
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    edited January 2020 #32

    The Lakes for me:

     

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2020 #33

    +1

    This was from the forrest road outside Troutbeck Head, if you look closely you can just spot some caravans bottom right.

    Or even better go to the tops, the exit of Swirral Edge.

  • Freddy55
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    edited January 2020 #34

    The Lakes take some beating...

     

     

  • Francis
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    edited January 2020 #35

    We love Troutbeck we were down there at the end of November it is lovely in the winter time.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2020 #36

    Indeed it is, it's our frequent flyer site, it was our first club site in 1999 and probably gone there more than any other site over the years, it's two hours door to pitch and we go there a lot (five times this year). 

    From it you can go pretty much anywhere in the lakes.

  • Whittakerr
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    edited January 2020 #37

       

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2020 #38

    talking about the lakes, this is taken from the National Park rangers who climb Helvellyn every day in the winter months to assess the conditions, for yesterday:

    This week is generally the quietest week of the whole year, so now is the time to head for the fells if you seek solitude! Indeed I met nobody today from leaving Glenridding to returning to the village despite doing the popular, and classic, Helvellyn via the Edges route! Mind you, I was accompanied with non-stop driving rain and 50+mph summit winds which may also have had something to do with it!!

    It's a great site that also has a picture taken from the summit, everyday reading for me. https://www.lakedistrictweatherline.co.uk/

  • cyberyacht
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    edited January 2020 #39

    Doesn't sound like my idea of fun any more than a thrash to windward in a Force 7 just to show how macho you were back in my yachting days.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2020 #40

    it's paid job so and I suppose like any job there are fun day and not so fun days.

    It's a very valuable service giving actual ground conditions on the fells, which are safe and which require greater skill and care from people who do it day and day out. Far more detail than weather forecast and my goto site when going out there.

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2020 #41

    I was watching TV, very unusual for me, a programme with Julie Bradbury and the 100 Top UK walks over the New Year and Countrywise was on afterwards. I've never seen this but apparently it's ITVs equivalent of Countryfile. Anyway they had a segment on about these wonderful people who trek up Helvellyn every day to take readings. I knew that this happened but to see their dedication was humbling.

    They could put a weather station up there but as you say CS they do it so that they report on conditions underfoot for idiots like us who go up there. Nice to know TV is good for something.smile

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