Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Ashness Hut

Back in 1979/1980 I had a weekend with Chantry Venture Scouts in the Lake District.  The weekend mainly consisted of trying to learn to master the Canadian canoe prior to our trip to Canada in August 1980.

Of the many abiding memories of that weekend the key one was that we stayed in a hut above Ashness Bridge near Derwent Water.

A couple of years ago I tracked down the Scouts who own the hut and took the Explorers there.   That first year we had snow, last year we moved it back to November for better weather and climbed Scafell Pike.  The year we wound it back to October and had a terrific, if windy, weekend.

On the summit of Great Gable.

Inside the hut on Saturday night
 People outside the hut whilst John & I tried to work out how the self timer worked!
 Peter bouldering near the Bowder Stone with John "spotting"
 Paul about to enter the old mine 
The team enjoying an end of weekend cup of tea (and cake) at Newlands Church

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