10th December 2009 - Troutbeck

8 turned up at the small lay-by church bridge A592 on this freezing night, anyone travelling from the Kendal side had a de-tour along the Ings-Troutbeck road as a truck had gone off the road! This short delay meant Paul could fettle his brakes, they just needed some slight adjustment...with a hammer! Now setting off go past the church up the bridleway to the post office then on up Robin lane, a slight rest towards the top and then onwards to Jenkin Crag and the tester rocky descent, apparently GA found the one pot hole and came off head over 'eels! Re-group at the bottom, sort of, someone waited for the others, they had already shot off along the main road, so a short delay while we all caught up and met up at the bottom of Mirk Lane. This is a good hill climb test and doubly so now the recent water erosion has had an effect, but you have to give it a go, not a bad effort and its hard work all the way up to Holbeck Lane. A chance of a little flap-jack, cheers JB. Now just the last climb upto Robin lane and then the descent to Troutbeck PO, when CT, GA & JP got to the junction no one was around so we took the direct route back to the cars to find no one,so we waited and chatted, eventually the others turned up as they had gone a different way! next time they should leave chalk marks if no-one mans a junction!! Too cold to stay around, no pub we'll wait until next week which will be at Satterthwaite because we can do parts of Grizedale and there's a pub for a pre-Christmas drink, bring money and clothes! PS: Beware of freezing temperatures if you have external luggage locks on your pick-up, just ask Paul!