After a day attempting to dry our boots -a newspaper was purchased specially we decided to walk in our spare boots!
We then set off on stage 14 of our c2c. It looked a bit dull but we walked through Shap stopping to talk to a local who said we were doing the walk the best way and that he had never known so many people giving up as this year. We followed the quite clear footpaths through to Keld, looking
at the Gollgleby stone and a pretty chapel on the way.We then walked on to Tailbert where we had to ask the farmer the way through the farm. We got to a bank and the path had disappeared in bracken but John managed to get us down the path using his GPS. The rest of the path through Swindale was easy to follow. We sat on a limestone outcrop and ate some lunch and enjoyed the sun.
We packed away the waterproofs before we set off for Naddle farm where we went on Saturday and finally joined the c2c again. The path was fairly easy to follow and was quite pretty along the river. The geology has changed and is now becoming limestone country and is very similar to the white peaks. When we were approaching Rosgill, I managed to fall over in a very muddy/manury/boggy patch! I got muck all up my new fleece and my trousers. A little while later I nearly fell off a stone stile. We made it back to Shap after stopping at Shap Abbey with no further mishaps.
Another 18 km walk.
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