Saturday 12th Sept to Monday 14th Sept 2015
As usual travel day on the Saturday to stay at Bram Crag farm lodges.
Sunday 13th September
Sunday we decided on a fairly short walk covering a couple of lower Wainwright fells in the vary far north of the National Park.
Great Cockup (1669ft) & Meal Fell (1735ft) were the fells in question and we drover to Horsemoor Hills, parking in a cut in by the roadside near Orthwaite.
5.13 Miles, 4hrs 15 mins.
We set off walking around noon back down the road(lane) before heading left onto a track up Orthwaite Bank and towards Little Cockup.
The "Highland" cattle with horns , just had to get a few shots......
The grassy track up to Little Cock Up (1233ft), nice easy going .....
Then coming down from Little Cock up, the view looking back to its pointy low summit.
Very grassy terrain but paths OK and distinct enough in most places, nice pleasant walking terrain.
Coming down off Great Cock Up to interchange of paths at Trusmadoor.
Then down and back up a short way to head North East to Meal Fell (1735ft).
Headed back the way we came initially down off Meal fell before veering right to short cut to Trusmadoor again.
From there, instead of heading back up Great Cock Up we take the avoiding low path around it skirting South of it towards Brockle Crag.
A steady grassy walk back to the start at Horsemoor Hills, We arrived back at 16:45, having enjoyed a steady afternoons walk with some reasonable open views.
Our Walk Score: 7/10
Monday 14th September
A cycle on a cloudy Monday morning directly from the Lodge to Thirlmere and Dob Gill waterfall and back (13 Miles), 2hrs, 40 mins.
Dob Gill waterfall lies about half way along Thirlmere on the "quiet" side away form the main road. Cars can drive along the good road and its fairly quiet, and a short but steep ascent into the forest tracks to get to the falls
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