MY WALKING WORLD  David Preston

 Black Sail Walk 2010

 Every year the 40sWalkersNorth organises a weekend walk to the Black Sail Youth Hostel, this year 16 of us were on the walk on the 17/07/10.       We started from Braithwaite near Keswick and followed the Newlands Valley and then up to Dale Head Tarn, down to Honister Mine and then over Haystacks and down to Black Sail Hostel. A good evening was spent at the hostel with great food and a slide show by the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team. Very interesting. The following morning we crossed Scarth Gap Pass, through Buttermere and then followed Sail Beck below Knott Rigg and Ard Crags and then back to Braithwaite. The weather was very wet and we wisely chose to keep off the high fells. A great walk with plenty of water gushing down the hillsides. Its hard to believe there was a hosepipe ban at the time.