Blencathra Sharp Edge / hall's fell - parking

Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ecQtF3MJMiPBFwk6
@dscs.demon.co.uk:

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I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

a. Threlkeld

b. Lay by on the A66

c. Mungrisdale

Having not been in the area since 1998 my memory is a wee bit fuzzy but
from what I have read b might be the best option. Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

Can't advise you on this. But I was flying 26000' over Blencathra
this morning and very splendid it looked too. Mind you, what an
amazingly nice day it was. Anyone up there at around 8.15am today may have
noticed the plane!

Good views to Snowdonia, Isle of Man, Arran and Jura on the way back too.
--
Adrian

Following up to Dominic Sexton

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I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

forgetting parking, I prefer up Halls down Sharp.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
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Following up to Dominic Sexton

Quoted message said:

I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

forgetting parking, I prefer up Halls down Sharp.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Was in Mungrisedale a couple of weeks ago. The parking opposite the Church
Hall is taken up by a large portacabin or something and a load of fencing.
Parked on the roadside running upto the pub. Car left there all day and was
OK on return.

Just a thought though if you are coming down Halls Fell it's a long walk to
Mungrisdale.

Mike Mason.

"Dominic Sexton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

a. Threlkeld

b. Lay by on the A66

c. Mungrisdale

Having not been in the area since 1998 my memory is a wee bit fuzzy but
from what I have read b might be the best option. Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

--

Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/

Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

a. Threlkeld

b. Lay by on the A66

c. Mungrisdale

Having not been in the area since 1998 my memory is a wee bit fuzzy but
from what I have read b might be the best option. Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

We parked at Threlkeld, NY 322 252 (pre-GPS) according to my notes, but
that was in 1974. :-)

I seem to remember we pulled off the A66 onto the small bye road, and
found a spot near a hotel.
--
Gordon

Quoted message said:

I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

a. Threlkeld

b. Lay by on the A66

c. Mungrisdale

Having not been in the area since 1998 my memory is a wee bit fuzzy but
from what I have read b might be the best option. Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

Parked in Threlkeld twice last year and no problem parking, although it was
fairly early when we started out ...... then again, it was not 'in-season'
times either!

The car park is on the road up to the Blencathra Centre. Also, it is a
pleasant walk to stretch the legs before starting up to Scales Tarn if going
via Sharp Edge.

--
Sandy Saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk

"Mountains or Mole Hills ..... reaching the
summit still brings the same excitement"

Dominic Sexton wrote

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Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

Here...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=333550&y=526548&z=1&sv=333750,526750&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

But get there early

Chris

In article <[email hidden]>, The Reids
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Following up to Dominic Sexton

Quoted message said:

I'm planning to go up Sharp Edge and down Hall's Fell ridge on Thursday.
Google groups has given me pointers to three parking options

forgetting parking, I prefer up Halls down Sharp.

Having not done either yet can you tell me why you prefer it that way
round?

--

Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/

In article <[email hidden]>, Chris
Gilbert <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Dominic Sexton wrote

Quoted message said:

Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

Here...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=333550&y=526548&z=1&sv=333750,52
6750&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

But get there early

Chris

Thanks Chris and all the other responders. Looks like the weather is
going to be nice too ;-)

--

Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/

Following up to Dominic Sexton

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

forgetting parking, I prefer up Halls down Sharp.

Having not done either yet can you tell me why you prefer it that way
round?

I don't like descending steep ground, much preferring to scramble
*up* Halls, (or Narrow as I learnt to call it) and then along
Sharp, which is levelish at the key point. Then descending over a
grass route. In fact what I have done is up Halls, down next to
Sharp (south IIRC), up Sharp then across the summit again to
descent the other end on grass to the car park, but I was younger
then!
And surprise surprise I have a photo:-
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/pict028b.htm"
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

In article <[email hidden]>, The Reids
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Following up to Dominic Sexton

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

forgetting parking, I prefer up Halls down Sharp.

Having not done either yet can you tell me why you prefer it that way
round?

I don't like descending steep ground, much preferring to scramble
*up* Halls, (or Narrow as I learnt to call it) and then along
Sharp, which is levelish at the key point. Then descending over a
grass route. In fact what I have done is up Halls, down next to
Sharp (south IIRC), up Sharp then across the summit again to
descent the other end on grass to the car park, but I was younger
then!
And surprise surprise I have a photo:-
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/pict028b.htm"

Thanks Mike, sounds interesting.

--

Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/

Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Chris
Gilbert <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Dominic Sexton wrote

Quoted message said:

Any opinions or other
options to further confuse me?

Here...

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=333550&y=526548&z=1&sv=333750,52
6750&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

But get there early

Chris

Thanks Chris and all the other responders. Looks like the weather is
going to be nice too ;-)

Car park behind Village Hall in centre of Threlkeld.

Be warned that the footpath behind Doddock Farm ( not right of way)
was wired up a few weeks ago. Bit of a nuisance if you are walking
back from bottom of Sharp Edge to Threlkeld.

Robert
royall at which net

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from Adrian Tupper <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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But I was flying 26000' over Blencathra
this morning and very splendid it looked too. Mind you, what an
amazingly nice day it was. Anyone up there at around 8.15am today may have
noticed the plane!

At 8.15am today I was somewhere in the Ambleside area. Can't say I
noticed any planes at the time but about an hour later some military jet
came over much closer to 260 feet. I didn't see what it was as it was
obscured by the trees but it was loud enough to be painful.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 47 summits
New - 25 (Marilyns 8, Sweats 5, Outlying Fells 14)
Repeats - 22( Marilyns 6, Sweats 12, Wainwrights 16)

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from The Reids <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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I don't like descending steep ground, much preferring to scramble
*up* Halls, (or Narrow as I learnt to call it) and then along
Sharp, which is levelish at the key point. Then descending over a
grass route. In fact what I have done is up Halls, down next to
Sharp (south IIRC), up Sharp then across the summit again to
descent the other end on grass to the car park, but I was younger
then!

They are both good ways up but while much of Sharp Edge is like Striding
Edge Foule Crag at the end is harder than anything you are likely to
find on Halls Fell and ISTR the best (hardest) bits on Halls Fell are
avoidable. To have the best of both worlds go up Halls Fell, descend to
Scales Tarn and then return to the summit via Sharp Edge and Foule Crag.
For a dose of boredom you can descend via Mungrisedale common. :-)

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 47 summits
New - 25 (Marilyns 8, Sweats 5, Outlying Fells 14)
Repeats - 22( Marilyns 6, Sweats 12, Wainwrights 16)

"sandy saunders" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The car park is on the road up to the Blencathra Centre. Also, it

is a

Quoted message said:

pleasant walk to stretch the legs before starting up to Scales Tarn

if going

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via Sharp Edge.

I always bashed along the road before, but I notice there is a path
above the intake wall. Robert says the path above Doddick Fm is
closed, but is that the lower of the two paths? (ie, do you know if
there is still a way through)

Graham

Roger <[email hidden]> wrote in
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The message <[email hidden]>
from Adrian Tupper <[email hidden]> contains these
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But I was flying 26000' over Blencathra
this morning and very splendid it looked too. Mind you, what an
amazingly nice day it was. Anyone up there at around 8.15am today
may have noticed the plane!

At 8.15am today I was somewhere in the Ambleside area. Can't say I
noticed any planes at the time but about an hour later some military
jet came over much closer to 260 feet. I didn't see what it was as it
was obscured by the trees but it was loud enough to be painful.

Yes we flew over Ambleside too before tracing Windermere and
over Morcambe bay. We were rather higher than 260'!

--
Adrian

Dominic Sexton <[email hidden]> wrote in news:N
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In article <[email hidden]>, The Reids
<[email hidden]> writes

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Following up to Dominic Sexton

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Having not done either yet can you tell me why you prefer it that way
round?

And remember folks, we're talking about Blencathra....

;-)

--
Adrian

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"sandy saunders" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Quoted message said:

The car park is on the road up to the Blencathra Centre. Also, it

is a

Quoted message said:

pleasant walk to stretch the legs before starting up to Scales Tarn

if going

Quoted message said:

via Sharp Edge.

I always bashed along the road before, but I notice there is a path
above the intake wall. Robert says the path above Doddick Fm is
closed, but is that the lower of the two paths? (ie, do you know if
there is still a way through)

Graham

Its :
Doddick Gill eastward 331 265 to 335 267
the above path which was very well used, gated with "please shut the
gates signs" etc ran just above the farm..

Has anyone any idea whats behind its closure ?

I think the map shows another map looping up hill above the highest
wall - havent got the map here.

There is always the bridleway just above the A66 - I havent used it t
tho'

Robert

royall at which net

Following up to Roger

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For a dose of boredom you can descend via Mungrisedale common. :-)

connoisseurs only is the phrase :-)
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap