Scorton Picnic Site. Tuesday 21st. April 2015

It was one of those days when there wasn't a cloud to be seen in the sky, as our group of 14 left Scorton Picnic Site on another of our Tuesday 10 mile walks. After a short section of road, we soon headed across fields, full of sheep and lambs, past farms at Cliftons and Sykes to a path that follows the contour around the western and north western slopes of Harrisend Fell. There was then half a mile or so of road to the point where we did a right angle turn to join the track that zig zags it's way up Catshaw Fell, to our lunch stop at Grizedale Head (or was it the Grizedale Head Riviera??)

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Lunch break over, and still bathed in sunshine, we continued our walk to join the fenceline that runs along the ridge, and headed westwards over Grizedale Fell to Harrisend Fell. Here we took time to look at a goose's nest with seven eggs in it. Then at a cairn at the end of the ridge, stopped for a few minutes to take in the views over the Bowland Fells and across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District Fells in one direction, and over Nicky Nook to the Fylde in the other direction.

Viewing over we followed a narrow path through the heather down to Grizedale Bridge, then through fields and along minor roads past farms at Fell End and Potters Hill back to our cars. We had unbroken sunshine all day, and under those conditions a joy to be out walking.