The camping weekend started on Friday the 17th of August. we arrived at a damp campsite (after all it was the middle of the British Summer. After pitching our tent we drove to the end f the valley to Wasdale Head and sheltered from the weather in the Ritson Bar with some lovely food and a few local cumbrian ales. Although not the cheapest food that we have ever had it was definitely filling and warming. I had the stake pie which lacked a bit of gravy but appart from that no real complaints about the meal.
It was still quite wet and the cloud was quite low on the Saturday morning and therefore a high level walk wasnt really the best of options. We had planned to walk to the top of Lingmell (just across from Scafell Pike) however it was well and truely hidden in the cloud. Therefore we decided that we would take a low level walk long Wast Water along the south side of the water from the campsite to Nether Wasdale. This took us accros the Scree fields below Illgill Head and Winn Rigg. Although quite a wet walk and a little slippy underfoot it was a reaonably pleasent walk. It would of course have been much nicer if it had been dry as footing would have been much easier. Its not a route that we planned for the day and its not one that we will rush to do again as it was slightly slow going and parts of te "path" were not that obvious so you had to pick your way steadily over the large pieces of scree. The route however did finish at the Screes Inn in Netherwasdale where I had a lovely Ale and a beautiful stake sandwich. The staff in the pub were very friendly and I would recomend this pub to anyone in the area for somewhere to go either for food or for a drink.
It dried out that afternoon as did our tent and our wet clothing. We one again visited Ritson Bar for more food and drink having eaten inside we ventured outside to enjoy teh evening sunshine. Ritsons bar like the Screes Inn is very nice I dont think that the staff members where quite so warming as the one in the the Screes however the Ritsons is much buisier than the Screes so I cant hold that against them. The food this evening was lovely and I cant complain about the quality or quantity.
Our second night in the campsite was a bit drier and the tents were packed away fairly dry but still needed hanging on the line when we got home. The campsite wasnt very busy I believe that although they have plenty of room for tents they never fill it so much that you are all squashed together. The facilities are nice with a large toilet, shower and washing area. The campsite by far is not the cheapest I think that we were about £25 per tent per night (4 man tent with 2 adults) plus you still had to pay for the hot water in teh showers. I appreciate that the payment for the showers is because they are trying to be environmentally friendly however I think that having a token system and getting so many free tokens per person per night would be much more sensible.
Monday, August 27, 2012
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