Cross Fell 1999 Trip Report

Trip report October 24th 1999

Obstructions on the footpath

It was one of those typical Autumn days: rainy, windy, squelchy and warm. We had missed the good weather by one day and it just so happened that Monday was also reasonable. Oh well, things could have been worse!

The hikes this time round were a lot longer than usual with hike 1 doing over 25km and hikes 2 & 3 doing over 20km each. Despite this, some people did rise to the challenge of hike 1 - the usual suspects it has to be said, but they completed it. The rest of the people still hadn't fallen off their trolleys yet! Anyway those hikes that did go ahead were all successfully completed.

Desite all the boring weather, there was some blue sky - O.K. the editor has no proof of this and all the other hikes were in the pub at the time BUT Hike 1 did actually see some blue sky at ~5.00pm!