Navigational Challenge in the Duddon Valley

After the rather wet day on Ben Lomond the following day was spent traveling down to the Lake District. The weather was really too good to be in the car, but as I passed Ullswater and then along the Wrynose Pass the views more than compensated for this.

Staying at High Moss in the Duddon Valley near Seathwaite the weekend looked to be a promising one. The activity for Saturday was a navigational challenge, control points had been set out and on Saturday we were shown the master map with the points highlighted. In addition information was provided to narrow down the location,

The majority of those taking part were fell runners so they were set to cover a lot of the course. For myself and a couple of others it was to be a more sedentary affair. The weather was good and throughout the day it remained sunny, warm and bright. This made the challenge all the more enjoyable.

Overall it was a good day navigating from control point to control point. It wasn’t overly challenging to find the controls but as a walker impossible to cover the whole area. Needless to say the fell runners got the highest scores, but some of them did pick up a lot of penalty points due to their running overtime.

Perhaps next time I will have to be more minimalistic & maybe try a bit of running. There is a whole year to prepare and procrastinate over it!