Borrowdale, Lake District
Christmas 2024
Christmas 2024, spent at Borrowdale Hostel with Graham Nevett.
On Christmas Day we rode to Newlands valley and over the pass (333 m, 1093 ft) to Buttermere. Then down Lorton Vale, over Whinlatter Pass (318 m, 1043 ft) and back through Newlands to Borrowdale.
On Boxing Day we drove to Keswick and cycled a circuit of Skiddaw, stopping at the Old Crown in Hesket Newmarket.
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Newlands Hause & Honister Pass, 34 miles

River Derwent, Grange

Borrowdale

Derwent Water

Applethwaite and Derwent Water

Stoneycroft and Causey Pike, 637 m

Newlands Beck, Stair

Newlands Hause (333 m, 1093 ft)

Newlands Hause (333 m, 1093 ft)

Buttermere

Crummock Water

Grasmoor

Bassenthwaite Lake

Little Braithwaite

Skiddaw Circuit, 31 miles

Threlkeld

Gategill

Gategill

Doddick

Great Mell Fell, 537 m

Carrock Fell

Carrock Beck

Above Caldbeck

Thistlebottom

Sandale Transmitting Station

Over Water

Bassenthwaite Lake

Keswick
Day 3: Driving Home

Derwent Water
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