Farewell to the Lake District!

What a long day today has been. We left Patterdale this morning and it looked like it was going to be a really hot day. Turned out it was going to be a humid one!
We walked into the village and were just about to walk into the shop when we almost bumped in to Mike and Brian! We walked to route together again enjoying the company.
The route to start with is a steep uphill to Boarddale Hause at 390m, it then traverses Angle Tarn and there is a boggy ridge around The Knott at 739m before a lovely ridge walk up to Kidsty Pike at 780m - the highest point on the Coast to Coast.
All of that hard earned hight is lost in a steep downhill section of only 2km.
It follows the ridge right down to the side of Haweswater. The path along this reservoir is horribly long and with the humidity and showers seemed to last forever. Just after Burnbanks we waved goodbye to Mike and Brian as they had digs in Bampron for the night.
We trudged on to Shap for another couple of hours of wet fields. The terrain had changed by now and rolling grass fields were the norm rather cragy dales. At Rosgill Dawn was struggling and we took to the road rather than another boggy footpath. Sadly the Greyhound Inn is at the far end of the village - another 1500m! Still, good food and Steve from the previous day walked all the way down to join us for a beer and we've been talking to him and "The Californian Couple" - hence the late (and rather brief) blog!
Long day again tomorrow - 20 miles to Kirkby Stephen - and the forecast is not great! Oh well, it's just a bit of weather!