![]() But today, although I had a fair chunk of distance I wanted to get done, I wasn’t under quite the same sort of pressure, so I took a bit more time to take in the surroundings. The last time I was here was in June 2007, and I didn’t linger on my way day from the Old Man due to trying to catch the last bus. I poked about for a while looking at the remnants of that long-discontinued industry, and then resumed the climb shortly reaching Low Water. So plenty of stops were taken to look at the views before I reached the old mine workings. The first half day’s walk on a trip like this I usually find to be hard going as my body gets used to carrying the weight of my pack and to actually walking on rough sloping ground – something there isn’t much of around London. A warm day and soon the evidence was trickling down my face. I set off up the lane next to and behind the sun Hotel and onto open countryside, climbing steadily up alongside the beck. Eventually I gave up and used Viewranger, which I usually avoid on a multi-day walk because it runs my phone battery down a lot. The bus dropped me in Coniston and I then spent a while on the start of walk faff – most of which was trying to get the Spot to work, the main issue being that I’d not paired it with my new phone, the app had been upgraded too and there was next to no mobile phone signal to synchronise with my account. This just about gave time to choke down sausage and chips and get essential supplies (ie beer) in Booths. The journey to Windermere was uneventful, and I arrived there with some time to kill before the bus to Coniston. Maybe I’d just packed sensibly and maybe the pack was working some of its own magic in terms of the carry. More about the wonders of this pack in a future post. But that couldn’t be as I have an OCD level of gear checklist specifically to ensure nothing is forgotten. But not this time – it actually felt ok, leading me to suspect I’d omitted something critical. It’s usually on the walk to the station that I begin to suspect I’ve overpacked and that a crippling weight after only 100 yards of pavement walking doesn’t bode too well for lugging it all up a hill. A few squirts of air into the Airbeam frame of my new Gossamer Gear Mariposa Pack and then I swung it up onto my shoulder and left the house for the short walk to the station.
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