Bakestall
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It was worth walking around to pass White Water Dash. The path up Bakestall Edge is slippy in the wet so more direct routes would have been worse. The route taken is a lot of tarmac and metalled road until the 'Edge' is tackled which today was mostly made of slippiness rather than actual bog.
Note to any interested reader the walking route begins and ends at the signpost on the map. The extra bit is me driving of still recording the route.
TallPaul likes this postNote to any interested reader the walking route begins and ends at the signpost on the map. The extra bit is me driving of still recording the route.
Did you know that you can edit tracks in our GPS mapping app. Essentially you load the track, go into track editing mode, click near the end of the trask to move the "walker" marker to the point where you want to start deleting and then start right clicking to delete the point where the walker is (ctrl+right click restores the last point). Then download it when you're done.
Here's your track edited that way:
But I managed to start and stop at the right place today!!!I missed the White Water Dash when I did Bakestall last year. If I go again, definitely keen to go that way to see the falls. I crossed from Skiddaw, and glad I did - the views across to Blencathra are incredible as you walk from Skiddaw to Bakestall.
P.S. my first post as I found this website while doing some research!
That route in was very pleasant. The valley doesn't look very 'Lake Districty' but is lovely. We were just bagging Bakestall, with a spare couple of hours, as they way we have gone about climbing the Wainwrights means it had to be a solo. No views for us from the tops but we have at least two more days around Skiddaw to do so may get lucky!
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