Sunday 5/5/19.

Internet has been very intermittent up til yesterday 9/5.

Our accommodation at the Travellers Rest was very close to the C2C trail so Rob planned a circuit walk called the Great Tongue up to Grisedale Tarn and about 1/2 way to Patterdale.

Travellers Rest Hotel.

Grisedale Tarn is at an elevation of 600metre so it was all up! A lovely walk though, that starts with public footpaths past houses then farms with a stream running on the left. As you head past these you come to a footbridge and the bridle path gives way to a track and as you rise higher the views back towards Grasmere were well worth the effort and it was lovely to see all the baby lambs too.

This Waterfall marks the top of the tongue and a Cairn marks the alternate route which we took on the way back.

Abit further on after quite a few stone stairs and as you reach a stone wall and step through, Grisedale Tarn appears with Helvelyn in the Background.

We stopped for a break at the Tarn and then walked on past Helvelyn towards Patterdale, then doubled back and did a lap around the Tarn before heading home.

This is Rob about a 1/3 of the way round. If you look carefully you can just see a line which marks the path around the tarn.

On the way back we took the alternate route down the stairs and then on the Northern side of the tongue.

Looking back down the Valley towards Grasmere.

Lovely sheep but where is the path? Very different route with no clearly defined path on the way down…

Tadpoles in a puddle!!!

Great walk – about 13km’s 😅

We arrived back at the hotel about 2pm, had a lovely Sunday Roast lunch – Chicken for me and Beef with Yorkeshire pud for Rob and a bottle of Montepulciano.

Tuckered out we relaxed for the rest of the day, I did some writing and planning too 😄.

Awesome day!