Hardknott pass if you have balls of steel with a rear wheel drive

😀 I dont think you can fail in an mx5 with the top down!

If you smash it over hardknott, you could always have a bash on the larl ratty, have a look round muncaster castle, go back to eskdale and then have a drive back over birker fell (nice run), down the ulpha valley, over wrynose and back to Conistown.

Edit, or go right sorry, left then right after Birker and take on the Blacksmiths arms as per one of those other suggestions.

Whatever you do whether its driving or walking or swimming you’ll be grinning from ear to ear all week hope its dry for you as our mx5 is a pig in the wet specially if you try to hoof it you don’t want to end. Up in a lake.

Oh and I forgot Blencathra. Some cracking ascent options to be had while the footpath off of Skiddaw is brilliant.

Cheers

Sanny

Gorge walking at conniston take spare clothes and shoes

‘Chesters’* GRRRRRR please be aware that their dress code is lemon/salmon poloshirt with contrasting lemon/salmon sweater over your shoulders to be accesorised with a gleaming 4×4 and children called sebastian and Ptolomy and be prepared to follow the missus round their overpriced unnecessary acoutriment purveyory nodding while she picks stuff up she has absolutely no intention of buying and demands you have some kind of opinion on it then you can drive to the next simalr location and pay afurther £40 for two coffees and a sandwich before taking a tour of someone elses house who died a hundred years ago who wrote some books you couldn’t give a monkeys about and get charged £15 a head for the privelege of looking a collection of stuff that wasn’t even theirs to begin with but just bought by some bearded clot who thinks its evocative of the kind of ironing board that they actually may or may not have had then you can go out to dinner to some pubmaster owned hovel where the carpet sticks to your feet and condiments are served in sachets and the chef is some scouse adolescent in hiding from the probation service……..IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? IS IT????!!!!!

Take your bike.

*applies equally to many lake district facilities for

Ta,

more constructively: being based in coniston you could spend the week hoying bits of scrap cars in to hodge close, most therapeutic.

If its glorious weather, another option is to drive to barrow and buy loads of disposable bbq’s, empty crates of fosters and half eaten packs of burgers from aldi.

Then drive up to coniston and dump them all along the shore line. It’ll make it feel like summer’s come early.

Agreed. Barrow is a must see. Get a tetanus shot though.

Underrated Lakes bits within easy striking distance of coniston(and hence quieter)

Black Coombe
Dunnerdales/duddon valley (see stevestunts post)
Ennerdale (alright frickin miles away but ace)
Eskdale – the foresty bit with the dilapidated japanese garden – and go the ratty cos it’s funny being on a tiny train (steer clear of the train station pub though in ravenglass, it’s cack)

Eateries

Conishead priory (veggy so you’ll have to smuggle a slice of ham in, but pleasant gardens too) soup and baguette £5!
The newish place between high sawrey and the ferry gastropub type gubbins but very good
Blacksmiths Broughton Mills

If you don’t go to the ship inn and chip shop at greenodd I’ll hunt you down and kill you