The Walla Crag Warmup

Today we headed back to the Lake District to go on a half day hike.
Led by Andrew and Victoria, we headed back to Keswick to hike from the
Derwentwater car park, up Brockle Beck, through Rakewood to the top of
Walla Crag, which sits on the edge of Bleuberry Moor. (pronounced
"bleeberry") We climbed 1243 feet to the top. This was the easy
part. The decent down the other side was the biggest challenge.
About a 60 degree decent over rocks, rocky steps, and toe jamming
grass and dirt trails, it took longer to get to the bottom than to
climb to the top. This ended up being about a 2 1/2 hour hike. Of
course this doesn't count all the time we stopped! Haha.

After returning back to Wigton, we all had a great meal, courtesy of
the local Chinese Take Away. Living on only snacks before and half
way through the hike, we were all pretty ravenous by dinner.

The picture we post here is taken from the top of Walla Crag. The
village that you see is Keswick. The water to the left is
Derwentwater. The large body of lakeland water in the distance is
Bassenthwaite Lake.

Tomorrow we take it easy, do some laundry, pack up the bags and get
ready for the Tuesday train ride to Glasgow, where we will ready for
the start of the hike. More on that tomorrow. For now, day is done
and sleep is needed. We shall see how the muscles feel from the climb
when morning here arrives. Cheers!