That there Lake District...
12 July 2004, 07:51 AM
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That there Lake District...
It's a bit of alright, innit!!!
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Apple, it's still in the boot, mate.
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
12 July 2004, 02:03 PM
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wrynose / hardknott sorts the men out from the boys - can be a bit hair-raising when the road is so steep and twisty that you can't see it (I kid you not)
give yourself a couple of hours to do that one if you're starting from ambleside.
give yourself a couple of hours to do that one if you're starting from ambleside.
12 July 2004, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Sticky Stuff
Apple, it's still in the boot, mate.
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
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12 July 2004, 05:05 PM
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Yup, 'twas only spoilt by the fact that we stayed at Fawlty Towers '04. The place even had it's own Manuel (albeit she was female, and called Maria)
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Originally Posted by Sticky Stuff
Apple, it's still in the boot, mate.
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
Pic was take just over the top of the Wrynose Pass, looking over to the West. The hill in the background features the unbelievably twisty 1:3 incline of the Hardknott Pass. If you only ever drive one more road in your life, make it this one.
Here's a close up of those distant hills, you can just make out the road winding up it...
and a couple more taken over the weekend...
13 July 2004, 06:12 AM
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Jasoon, it was a hotel in Grassmere, on the main road, called Forest Side. Looked great from the outside, but downhill from there. Paid a premium for a better room and got what must have been the pokiest little hole in the whole place, very limited evening meal menu (choice of two main courses !!!), ignorant and incompetant staff, who also appeared to have a race problem (one young Japanese family faced a constant struggle to get any kind of attention / service, despite being able to speak quite clear English), and then upon checking out we were charged for a couple of meals that we'd never had.
Wouldn't recommend the place
Can anyone suggest any decent campsites in the area that are doggie friendly, as were thinking of taking a tent next time.
Wouldn't recommend the place
Can anyone suggest any decent campsites in the area that are doggie friendly, as were thinking of taking a tent next time.
13 July 2004, 01:48 PM
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Luv it.
Spend a week on a farm at Watermillock every year to give our dogs their holiday.
How much further to Helvellyn then?
Sheep spotting from a great height.
Spend a week on a farm at Watermillock every year to give our dogs their holiday.
How much further to Helvellyn then?
Sheep spotting from a great height.
13 July 2004, 03:52 PM
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Be careful of the the sharp rocks that jump out and slash your tyres, that b@satard claimed a brand new goodyear F1 of mine last weekend 
Great road though
If you dodge the micra driving coffin dodgers! 
Great road though
If you dodge the micra driving coffin dodgers!
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Originally Posted by Sticky Stuff
Can anyone suggest any decent campsites in the area that are doggie friendly, as were thinking of taking a tent next time.
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...p.x=185&up.y=4
We have a static caravan on the site opposite the turning and are up there all the time
13 July 2004, 04:22 PM
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Hmm, Wish i was there now & come to think of it so does scoob
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14 July 2004, 06:24 AM
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Last Thursday of this month sounds good to me
Now, where did I put my events secretary slush fund????
Now, where did I put my events secretary slush fund????
14 July 2004, 10:02 AM
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as corradoboy says - that road bites...
and if the road doesn't get you the mental farmers will...
Someone organising a run out then? Ambleside then over Wrynose & Hardknott? Enter at your peril...
and if the road doesn't get you the mental farmers will...
Someone organising a run out then? Ambleside then over Wrynose & Hardknott? Enter at your peril...
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I first did Hardknott pass a few months after passing my test, in the middle of the night, in a fully laden 10 year old Morris Ital 1.3 estate. And you think it's scary in a scoob???
I remember one year (in a Rover 416GSI this time) waiting at the bottom for about 15 minutes until there were no other cars on it so I could have a clear run up it - fantastic.
Actually, I think that was my favorite run up - I found my scoob seemed a bit big somehow and understeered under power on the hairpins - due to the AWD diffs?
Steve
I remember one year (in a Rover 416GSI this time) waiting at the bottom for about 15 minutes until there were no other cars on it so I could have a clear run up it - fantastic.
Actually, I think that was my favorite run up - I found my scoob seemed a bit big somehow and understeered under power on the hairpins - due to the AWD diffs?
Steve