A Walkers Tale

The prior day I had been walking along the Dales Way from  Cowgill to Burneside  - and today I would be continuing to walk along the Dales Way to Bowness-on-Windermere. Since this would be a fairly short walk, my plan was then to cross over Windermere - and head up the western side of the lake to Ambleside.

Looking for some new walks, I stumbled across a description of the Cumbria Way - which promised a lower-level walk through the Lake District, that gives a route through the lakes, but without the whole obsession with wainwrights, and steep scrambles.

I had been looking out for a walk that would be a little bit more adventurous - and one that looked to fit the bill was the old High Street Roman Road across the Lake District. This route would originally run from Brougham Fort, near Penrith, to Ambleside - but my plan was to join it at the top of Ullswater, and the finish near Windermere train station.