BB2041 : Trigpointing

Thursday 19th November 2020

It's funny what people collect or "bag".  We BOOTboys, or at least most of, us are no exception.  Wainwrights for example.  Visiting each one for the sake of visiting each one.  Twice in my case.  More in Stan's.  Or Bryan's. Although I think there is a good excuse in that it forces us to visit parts of the Lake District into which we might not otherwise wander.

Ditto Monros, Marilyns, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds, HuMPs, Simms, TuMPs, Furths, Hewitts, Nuttals and Birketts.  All group nouns for a selection of hills with particular attributes and all with devotees dedicated to visiting each within the groups.  If you want to know what they all are, visit Mountains and Hills in the British Isles.

When I were a lad it was PG Tips cards.  Or Soccer Bubble Gum- I am still missing Charlton Athletic 1957, by the way.  And I didn't even like bubble gum.

Later, Trainspotting before maturing into Beer Mats, then Coins. More recently Weather Vanes.  Tony likes old Post Boxes and anything to do with Lady Anne Clifford.  Other folk I know like Buttonhooks or Pipeline Gates.  Or Pokemon.  Or Sylvanian Families.

Each to his (or her) own.

Manchester City 1957-58

Looking for inspiration for a Lockdown 2.0 theme for today, I discovered another group of collectors- Trigpointers.  According to their website, they are people who are unable to walk past a trigpoint without bagging it.  Amazingly (to me) there are more than 8,000 members of the group and over 23,000 trigpoints logged.  They now have a new member.  BOOTboy!

It was thanks to my new friends that we derived the theme for the day.  The Lockdown group of 2 rule seriously interferes with the normal sociable side of BOOTboying.  The day needs a theme common to all. Today it was Trigpoints.  Each pair could go where they liked when they like but they had to visit at least one Trig Point then post it on WhatsApp for the others to guess their location.

It was a lovely day, despite a cold northerly wind.  A common theme of many of the photos was the distant view of the Coniston range.

Bryan was on Scout Scar with Mike F

In an effort to build up my fitness I have recently been doing a QAD (Quaque Alternis Die) round of Cunswick and Scout Scars.  

I was joined on the walk today by Mike F.  Upon reaching the trig column on Scout Scar I went through the Don process of propping my phone up against rocks so I could take a Comitibus photo.  It took a while because a couple had arrived at the trig and were faffing about taking photos from various angles.

It was only as they left and walked towards us that I realised it was Stuart and Gill, and the purpose of their faffing suddenly became clear!

7.3 miles / 1,094ft

John H was with Trish having a Hot Sausage Picnic on Winder

Martin and Diana had a chance encounter.

We planned a quiet stroll up Whitbarrow to the Lord's Seat Trig Point. En-route in the sunshine we happened upon David and Helen H who had the same destination in mind.

There were many folk around the summit and we completely forgot the unique identifier in our snaps. Overall we probably saw 60 walkers/runners and our round trip was 7.6 miles and 1600 feet. Marvellous views into the hills and to Blackpool Tower.

Mike B and Terry went west

The last few weeks we've stumbled on myriad muddy field gates where animals have created a bog. Not today, I planned. I was wrong. The second field we went into we had a job exiting. We had to carefully balance on moving wood in deep water. 

Thank goodness for Humphrey Head though. Once reached it, we started to meet other walkers. And a man mending fences. We also noticed the cockle pickers out on the sands and met some later returning on their quad bikes. And was that James landing at the aerodrome?

The coastal path was a delight.

Unfortunately they missed the trig point at Cannon Winder- they thought they only had to find one!

Robin was with his faithful dog, Holly

Set off in sunshine to Low High Hill, then Middle High Hill and up to yes, you guessed it – High Hill. I reckon by rights it should be High High Hill, but it’s not.

At 1,443 feet it is the highest point on the Pennine Bridleway above Settle and the site of Langcliffe Trig Point S5521, today’s destination.

The Trig Point was built in 1949 and used in the summer of 1951 to prepare OS maps.   Pen-y-Ghent in background

A warm sausage brunch/lunch courtesy of Jonna wrapping them in foil and stuffing them into a thermos was enjoyed a bit by Holly and mainly by me. Home under blue skies via Stockdale Farm and Lambert Lane. 

7.7 miles / 2,093 feet

Stephen and Tony had a leisurely time.

We commenced walk in Levens; up & over Sizergh Fell for a leisurely coffee at the Castle.  On up to Helsington where we bumped into Philip and Ann.  

Leisurely lunch and then down to Cinderbarrow through the secret wood via the secret tree and secret lake where we saw a naked lady arise from the water holding aloft a sword.  

   The Lady arising from the Lake is Dirtie Gertie, more properly known as  La Délivrance.  Photo © Martin Addison

Detour to Levens Church to bag the trig point and then a leisurely covid19 compliant beer.  6.5 miles.

Stuart and Gill plus Maisie also went up Scout Scar where they encountered Bryan.

Stan and I bagged two and maybe three trigpoints.

From Stan's house, we climbed up by the side of James' pad to Paddy Lane.  

I was waiting for Stan to say "Let's take the race route to the top" and of course he duly obliged.  It's not as I remember it but I never took part in the Benson Knott fell race and it's many, many years since I walked up from the Lane.  

Let's just say that although a nice climb through fields, it is a convoluted route and, unless you know where you are going, don't try it.

Having visited both summits, admired the panorama and taken the obligatory S5733 TrigPointPic, we headed over to Fisher Tarn in conditions infinitely better than on BB1901 despite the recent rain.

 From here we returned to Paddy Lane and headed south, passing the old Greyhound pub..  

The Hayclose Lane TV Mast is listed on Trigpoint website as an Intersected Station which I think means that the mark is placed on a pre-existing structure.  As it is all security locked, we couldn't see any mark but I did find two manhole covers saying TRIGLIDE so we'll count those instead.

At the end of Paddy Lane is the Station Inn (open for take-aways) and the start of the climb up to Helm, as it is locally known, or alternatively The Helm, as preferred by mapmakers.  This time there is no difficulty in spotting trig point S5515 and no difficulty in admiring the view.

Job done, we parted company in Oxenholme and went our separate ways home.  12.1 miles, 1,604 feet

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Don & Stan

Mike & Terry

Down in the Zoombar :

Terry

Don

Stan

John H

Martin

Stephen

John PL

Mike B

James

Robin

Mike T

Tony (camera not working!)

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