eskadale
Submitted by laurence on Wed, 2009-08-26 13:23
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As the owner of a Garmin I took it upon myself to sort out the route for our hike. So with that I must take full responsibly for getting us pretty lost, well maybe lost is too strong a word but taking us up the wrong route initially.
As a bunch of big strong South Africans I decided on everyone's behalf that we would not do the regular route and look for a more challenging route. My decision seemed like the correct one when we all got together on the long drive to the Lake District. Apparently Scafell Pike has a reputation of a mountain that geriatrics climb. As our lead Voortrekker put it "I want a hobby with an element of risk", it had just so happened that I had picked the shortest route to the peak, at only 8 miles. I sold this idea to the less fit smokers in our group and tried not to focus on the point that it was also the steepest route. |
