Easter Monday, another very pleasant day, about 15 degrees and
fine.
Today we drove to Grasmere to do a
navigation course with guides from the Lake District National Park. Before starting the course we had a brief visit to St Oswald's Church and the Wordsworth family grave where William Wordsworth, the famous Lake District poet, is buried.
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| William Wordsworth Grave at St Oswald's Church, Gramere |
Mike was our tutor on the 5.5 hour navigation course and he taught us a lot about map reading and compass navigation.
We navigated through Grasmere using the Ordinance Survey map then climbed Silver How a hill which overlooks the town. The name "How" is derived from the Norse word "Haugr" which means hill, a rem ant from England's Viking history. Silver How is a small fell, 395m high.
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| Silver How |
There are lots of humps and crags (rocky outcrops) on Silver How which make it ideal for some challenging navigation. Learning to navigate by compass was good experience for our coast to coast
walk and will come in handy if we have bad visibility during our trek across the Lake District and Moors on the Coast to Coast walk.
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| A tarn and crag on Silver How |
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| On Silver How, the lumpy terrain makes it ideal for navigation training. Elaine and Mike walk to the next waypoint. |
We also enjoyed fantastic views over Grasmere, Rydal Water and, in the opposite direction, the Langdale Valley.
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| Grasmere and Rydal water in the distance |
As we will
be walking through Grasmere during our walk we also had a preview of the terrain
we would be walking through at the end of the week. We will be walking up and through the gap between Seat Sandal on the left and Fairfield on the right.
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| Seat Sandal on the left and Fairfax on the right with the gap leading to Grisedale Tarn |
On the way home we stopped briefly at Windermere for a view across the lake with the misty fells in the background.
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| Evening at Windermere |
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