A variation of our previous Mallerstang circuit, including a visit to a new 500m top Nateby Common (Tailbridge Hill) and returning directly along the Swarth Fell / Wild Boar Fell ridge.
Talk about incredible coincidence:- most of this route coincided exactly with a marked route for an event organised by the LDWA and Rotary Club, and the event took place on the second day of our backpack. We are LDWA members but don’t follow the organised events much, and we had no idea it was scheduled for that Sunday. From Swarth Fell onwards, where a checkpoint tent was set up, the normally very quiet ridge was teeming with runners and walkers in various categories coming the other way, but it didn’t matter much as it happened: the weather turned nasty and it was heads down into the driving mist and rain.
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Nice walk that,bad luck the route was a marked route for an event. I bet any other time you would have had it all to yourself.
We have never seen anyone on the High Seat ridge until this trip, and then only 2 people who were as surprised to see us as we were to see them. Not usually many on Wild Boar Fell either - a good area.
I think I will go and find out how good it is soon.
Thanks