Carlisle & District Rambling & Fellwalking Club
Walk & Event Reports
Sunday 21st May 2017
A Walk
Sergeant Man
10 Miles Grade 1
Leader: Lauren Sarasini
Report & Photos by Peter Flynn
......Dies irae, dies illa, solvet saeculum in favilla....... Day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth in ashes lay......
The chant sung by the monks in medieval times when one of the community dies. It would have been perfectly suitable for today and its dread and feared happening - the closure of the car park at Rosehill where generations of Sunday walkers have parked their cars while being whisked away in comfort and safety by the bus. Alas, no longer. We all parked on the road today but it is not too difficult to see into the future - double yellow lines, just because the council can! I would suggest the question is put to all potential candidates in the forthcoming election - "who will re-open the car park and scrap any plans to build on it?" If it is the Raving Loony Monster Party they will have my vote. And a sticker in our window. Nobody will ever see it, but we will put it up.
We did climb on the bus and were whisked away to the edge of Ambleside. Nobody actually wanted to go to the edge of Ambleside so the driver had to back into a lay-by and return to Grasmere. For the A walk, it was 8 hardy souls who made their way first to Easedale Tarn, initially in a slight drizzle but fairly soon in dry conditions. Great to have Ron with us again after a long absence. At the tarn we met an interesting group - Wakefield Women Walkers who had stayed overnight in the village and were lunching at the tarn prior to returning to Yorkshire. For us, from there it was an excellent path across what is normally quite boggy terrain, up the side of Eagle Crag ("are you sure this isn't a scramble???") onto the ridge with a wonderful view south to Stickle Tarn and the Langdales and then onto Sergeant Man. This is a walk where the return is every bit as adventurous as the ascent: no paths, plenty of crags and numerous opportunities for Lauren to do a bit of scrambling. A great walk, thoroughly enjoyed by all 8 of us and many thanks to Lauren for leading it.
Peter
