Summer Stroll – Cumbria WaySaturday 2nd - Sunday 10th August 2025We will be staying in glamping pods, youth hostels and bunkhouses. There will be no need to carry much, just some personal lunchtime food and clothes. I intend to eat at the nearest pub and get breakfast or food for breakfast at the accommodation. We kick off, meeting in the evening of Saturday 2 August, at the Wilson Arms near Torver, we will do normal car share etc, or you could get the train to Oxenholme. There are glamping pods there as well as normal pub rooms. A camping pod for 4 people for three nights is 540 pounds, so 45 per person per night. We will stay at the Wilson Arms for three nights, while we walk 16 miles from Ulverston to Coniston over 2 days. We will use cars to shuttle people around. Re walking you can just do the Cumbria Way in a relaxed manner, or you could do 14 miles or so on day one, then on day two do the Old Man of Coniston, or anything in between, I want to do White Maiden. Or you could not do the Cumbria Way and spend two days walking over the Old Man of Coniston massif. On Tuesday August 5 we will stay at Elterwater Hostel, four bed dorm room 139 pounds, the old yha, approx 6 miles from Coniston. It is a lovely walk via Tarn Hows, or you could go over Wetherlam / Swirl How, or just explore the Copper mines valley and then go round the side of Wetherlam. We may leave the cars at Coniston or keep them until Langdales, depending where I can find seven day car parking. On Wednesday 6 August, we are heading five miles or so up the Langdale valley, to Great Langdale bunkhouse or the glamping pods at the large NT campsite there. I will probably go via Lingmoor Fell, and if I am feeling energetic Pike o Blisco, but you can just amble up the valley. If you want a day off you can go to Ambleside for the day by bus. On Thursday 7 August, the Cumbria Way, goes 8 miles or so over Stake Pass at the end of the Langdale Valley, before going down Langstrath valley, to Borrowdale youth hostel, where they have two person bunkrooms for £90. The alternative route is probably to go over the Langdale Pikes, or maybe High Raise. I will probably do Langstrath valley as I have never done it before. On Friday 8 August, the Cumbria Way goes to Keswick Youth Hostel 6 miles or so up beside Derwent Water, or you could do the Cat Bells ridge, I will probably go via Watendlath and Ullscarf as I have never done Ullscarf or High Tove. If you want to keep the walk to a week, Saturday is the time to head back for the cars as Keswick has good bus links. Alternatively you can: 1. Continue for three nights at the Skiddaw YHA. This is three miles from the nearest road, north of Keswick, but has a small shop for supper and beer. I have always wanted to get access to the hills north of Skiddaw and Blencathra and staying here is the way to do this. So my plan is to do a walking tour of this area. 2. Carry on the Cumbria Way to Carlisle, under your own organisation. If you would like to join me, on some or all of this, please tell me a bit asap and pay a deposit of £45 per night, you will be with us, so if you are doing ten nights it is £450, if it is 7 nights, it is £315, three nights, £135 etc into the HHMC bank account. I will book the accommodation based on bookings received by 4 December. All deposits are non refundable, unless I can get the money back from whoever I have booked the accommodation with. Re costs, as well as the accommodation above you will have transport costs, the car parking fees will be high, and you will have quite hefty costs for supper and breakfast. Please note I will probably partly fail on some of the bookings, as availability keeps changing, I will then adjust the trip as I see fit. Re booking, I may on occasion have to book a mixed bunkroom, though I will try to do male and female rooms. I also would like to know if you are likely to be an independent or group travel, as car parking in the summer is an issue. If you just want to do a bit of the trip, just give me the dates you want me to book for you. Re luggage- there are a number of organisations who transport bags on the Cumbrian Way. If people want this, I will happily delegate the organisation of bag transfers to one of those people, once I have booked the accommodation, Lastly, but not least, Sue has kindly offered to be my deputy on this trip. |
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| Closing date for booking: 04/12/2024 | Upload trip photos  |
| Grid reference: SD 284 785 Post Code: LA12 7BP what3words: : ///coining.pixel.glosses Coordinates: W 3.0979, N 54.197 |