Mardale Head 8:22am 11°C
I arrive in Mardale under the cover of darkness as the High Street fells prepare for a brand new day, where else I am going to turn to in my time of need?
Today’s route didn’t get the time nor care it deserves, its a trudge over wet ground & high spaces, its a journey along my favourite of favourites, my sticking plaster & therefore healer of them all, High Street.
The car park is positively empty & has that abandoned feel to it, down on the tarmac however, new white parking space lines have been painted leaving Mardale Head resembling a small super-market car park, posh yet not needed.
Good god, I wonder what the old Mardale folk would have thought?
The cloud is high (for now) & a glimpse of colour can be traced from trying sky as I pass through the wooden gate at a crossroads for the Gatescarth & Nan Bield passes, today however, I shall be making my way over to Small Water & the top of the Nan Bield pass. |