Lake District walk, 2022, Day 6, 9 miles

Completely wonderful day. We are still in Grasmere and started the day by climbing Helm Crag. Then we returned to town for lunch, looking until I could find a place that had soup and salad, then had scone in another place that’s been serving tea for hundreds of years (though new looking at this point), and back out towards a falls and a high lake that we’d seen from the Crag. 9 miles. 

Can you believe how gorgeous this is? And you can rent these houses!

So much work has gone into some of these paths.

So so green and an amazing farm at the bottom. 

Here we can see them starting to build another path alongside a run off bed that is the current path. Helicopters carefully deposited these bags, at least 3 times as long a line up as what you can see here, snaking down the hill. And see the ferns? We realized that’s what’s blanketing all the hillsides – not bushes, but incredible banks of giant ferns!

Here’s the start of the new path with rocks from the bags. Incredible.

Later in the afternoon, up the other side across the river – and it’s not raining! We got so lucky, rained all night and some of the morning and we just read, had breakfast, read some more and then started out once the rain stopped. No wonder we’re grinning!