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BB2028 : Strange Very Seem Might It?

Thursday 6th August 2020

Frustration of sort that ..... strange very seem might it.

No, it is not Yoda speaking.

It is what could have been the easy and accurate way to start and finish this report as the intention was BB2006 : Frustrated by the Sun in reverse. Up from High Borrans via Long Crag to Sallows. Round to Sour Howes then down to the Dubbs Road and back to the car.

However it is a somewhat different world now. Parking is the great challenge. Five people, five cars needed. Bryan tells of Horton-in-Ribblesdale car parking spaces being full by 8:45 a.m. (rescued by enterprising farmer opening his field at £4 per car); the Haweswater road to Mardale Head clogged by 7 a.m. Valleys like Kentmere and Longsleddale being virtually inaccessible due to very limited parking. Even Troutbeck being challenging as we have recently discovered. So it was with trepidation that we each drove to the bottom of the Dubbs Road where there is room for maybe eight cars at most only to find that..... there was no-one else there!

Holly doesn't understand social distancing. She bounded round giving us all a friendly kiss. After all, she hadn't seen us for nearly six months. Nor had Robin but fortunately he resisted the temptation.

First difference to BB2006 was that, instead of focusing on High Borrans, we had a short side excursion to what the OS map simply calls Settlement.

You can find out a bit more about this Romano-British enclosure at Historic England.

This aerial photo borrowed from Lake District Walks gives a better idea of the layout than what we could see over the field wall.

Back on the main track, we turned off a little sooner than we should but then headed for the Long Crag bumps that lead up to the Sallows summit.

There was no-one else using this route way but there were a few people at the top who had come up from the Troutbeck side.

Before we reached Sour Howes, some bullocks took an unwelcome interest in Holly but then found our interest in them even more unwelcome.

We pioneered a new descent to bring us closer to the Dubbs Reservoir than the normal route.

Then it was back to the cars and home, passing the Brewery without stopping. Strange very seem might it?

Don, Thursday 6th August 2020

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Comitibus

Don, Terry, Tony, Mike, Robin & Holly

Route:

Map OS 1:50k

STATISTICS	BB2028 : Strange Very Seem Might It?
Date:	Thursday 6th August 2020
Features:	Sallows, Sour Howes
Comitibus:	Don, Mike T, Robin & Holly, Terry, Tony
Distance in miles (Garmin):	8.8
Height climbed in feet (MM):	1,432
GPX track	BB2028.gpx

Down in the Zoombar :

Mike	Don
Tony	James

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