Plan B the Four Teddy’s of Gragareth

Saturday, woke up to horizontal rain pounding the window, Teddy wanted another bag of leaves and to hibernate till spring ! but I’d packed the haversack the night before and printed two maps and laminated them, Plans  A and B. B won - Gisburn – Settle bypass – Ingleton – Cowan Bridge – Leck – parked at the first gate on Leck Fell - SD 66560 78306 you had to wave your arm about to clear the mist to see your hand

So I made a drip coffee ( Lavazza) and ate an oat square kindly donated by Simon, at Pennine Cauldron Cafe – Skipton road – Foulridge – Nr. Colne (home made and local produce open 5 days/week closed Mon. Tue.) after about an hour it began to clear enough to set off. Looking back down to Leck

and looking where I'm heading

followed the tarmac road as far as Leck Fell House then along the Bridleway

 in among the clouds

after I’d gained some height I set off back diagonally for the top cairns to look down on the “ Three Men”

arriving at them SD 67916 79256 to set up Teddy's Bistro

some of last nights cast iron Potjie pot stew :- sliced chicken breast chopped onion garlic, fried in olive oil with herbs of provance then layered with sliced :- parsnip, courgette, sweet potato, carrot, mushroom, and green beans with a tin chopped tomatoes a couple of Oxo cubes and a splash of Nandos perri perri brought to boil and slow simmered an hour’ish warmed up and served with a  Campo Viejo 2007 Rioja

packing up and heading off to the next cairn

brings a stone igloo shelter into view

it wasn’t working too well though as the mist was condensing in it and dripping, it was wetter in than out !

here’s one for Mike Knipe and all the Lichen fans, and I got a wet knee !

the mist was thick again so I pressed “go to” on the Garmin for the next cairn waymark SD 68089 78184 I doubt you can see it even if the clag was up because it’s sort of up and over and round the hill, anyway it loomed out of the mist

and I could see the Shepherds Hut !  SD 68099 78127 all I can say is they must have been hardy buggers !

I then played “go to” back to the van and set off trustingly,(first time in 50 odd years I didn't get the compass out, though it was in a pocket) to come out of the murk spot on

with a brief glimpse of the Three Men and another higher that I mist in the clag probably you can see the Shepherds Hut cairn from it ?

then a final view back down to Leck and the way home with the river Lune glinting in the sun

just thought I’d share cheers all Danny

Route map for Alan (comment #4)

 cheers Danny