Sunday, we set off early for a small car park 1 mile west of Dockray in the Lake District. We arrived just before 09:00am and soon set away down to Dowthwaite Head farm. I've never been there before and it was interesting to see loads of different breeds of sheep. Later found out that it was a breeding farm for sheep.
http://www.dowthwaiteheadfarm.co.uk/
So, our objective was a five Wainwright set of Hartside, Stybarrow Dodd, Watson's Dodd, Great Dodd and Clough Head.
The weather was overcast and cloud leveled at about the 750 metres region. And easy approach through the farm led to a right of way path. It was here that Junior agreed to "guide" me so from this point he made all the navigation in a fairly tricky condition of cloud, drizzle and slight wind.
Like all cloudy walks that doesn't involve steep crags or gullys this walk was fairly straight forward and apart from a pair of mountain bikers nothing really interesting happened.
From Clough Head, we followed a straight line over rough ground to Mariel Bridge on the Old Coach Road. Here we saw 3 Land Rovers moving slowly along the bridleway. They stopped at the bridge and looked at a section of the road that was very churned up - I doubt they wanted to get the Landies dirty.
Clough head was Mountainmanjuniors 99th Wainwright, I wonder what his 100th will be?
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