Post Blackpool Bagging

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I’ll be making one of those quite rare pilgrimages down from Scotland to NW England for the Blackpool Rally in a few weeks.

My normal plan is to bag a G summits on the way down on Saturday afternoon, stay Saturday evening in/around Blackpool and attend the rally on Sunday. This is easy and assuming it’s not terrible WX, I have a suitable unique to activate on Saturday.

It seems silly to drive 550miles and not grab as many summits as possible. I haven’t booked anywhere for Sunday evening yet so the next challenge is what to do Sunday evening/Monday?

Any suggestions for a pair of summits accessed from probably the M6 going North?

I was thinking maybe The Calf / Yarlside. Or maybe Whernside / Great Coum? Suggestions for what may make a nice pair that are not too far from the M6 please?

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The Calf/Yarlside are a good, natural pair (my outing tomorrow). This would be my recommendation.

As well as Whernside/Great Coum there’s Calf Top/Great Coum.

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I did The Calf and Yarlside a few days ago. Really nice walk which I thoroughly enjoyed.

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If the WX is not too good a quick pair is Great and Little Mell Fell G/LD-035 and G/LD-037.

But I’d go for Calf / Yarlside if the weather is condusive!

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The Calf / Yarlside would be good, but for a slightly longer detour and a bit of a drive between Wildboar Fell / Nine Standards from Kirkby Stephen. The Black Bull in Nateby did good food on Tuesday….

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You probably know all these Andy, but in LD land there are:

  • Great Mell Fell G/LD-035 & Little Mell Fell G/LD-037
  • Lambrigg Fell G/LD-036 & Grayrigg Forest G/LD-038
  • Hutton Roof Crags G/LD-052 & Arnside Knott G/LD-058
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They would be my suggestion for a “grab n go” :slight_smile: hutton roof is literally next to the M6, and arnside knott is about 2 miles off the M6… you can have them both boxed off and done in a couple of hours… i have them in my “plan” for the next time im up that way!

Alan

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But you can’t park on the hard shoulder and nip up the side of the hill. And it isn’t that close.

Your definition of a mile is clearly different to mine.

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Country mile? :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the suggestions. I didn’t want to complicate things by saying I was only interested in uniques. In fact I’d happily bag something again if it felt like a good walk etc.

The Calf/Yarlside get a few thumbs up so they will be my primary target. Of course it depends on the WX, I wont bother if it is persisting with rain. I’ll book Sunday night accommodation nearer the day.

Many thanks for all comments.

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If there’s a northerly wind it’ll be cold like yesterday. Hopefully you won’t suffer a geomagnetic storm which made getting contacts a struggle yesterday.

The Calf/Yarlside is a proper combination as it’s a round walk rather than up/down, drive to another place and up/down again. Well worth doing many times.

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Yep, one of them!

Alan

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Mrs JWA reckons that about my definition of an inch aswell… :rofl: :rofl:

Thing is, its not far, whatever way you look at it!

Alan

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If the weather is poor then there are also several options which are not massive detours.

For mildly poor weather Longridge Fell (G/SP-014) or Easington fell (G/SP-012) are short easy walks.

For even worse weather a slight detour south (approx 30 mins from the M55/M6 junction - summit is about 10 mins from J26 of M6) would get you to the delights of Billinge Hill (G/SP-017) which I notice would be a unique for you. About 5 mins from car to summit (<1 min to inside activation zone if required - park in layby near the golf course).