scenic pottering 1:41:00 [3] 8.5 mi (11:53 / mi) +300m 10:43 / mi
From Gollinglith Foot up to the top of Birk Gill Beck/Scale Gill, across Colsterdale Moor and back down Colsterdale.
A bit of an adventure, this all being new ground for me, and very good it was too. The path up Birk Gill is only just there, a 6 inch wide trod through heather, dead bracken and lots of bilberries, and the valley itself is very pleasant with a few rocky outcrops and a lovely birch wood along the beck. The path eventually disappeared amongst the heather when I was 500m short of the top, then there was a better path back along the other side of the valley. I cut across a k of heather to a big shooters track to take me into Colsterdale and then back down a nice track back to the start.
Not very sprightly, it's been a hard week. It wasn't very easy to run along the narrow path on the way out, the rest was easier.
No GPS, forgot to charge it.