Kirkstone Pass Traditional Cache
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Kirkstone pass is the highest road pass in the Lake District.
The Kirkstone Pass road, as described by Wordsworth, easily lives up to its poetic image. At 1489 feet (454 metres), it is the highest road pass in the Lake District. Consequently, it provides stunning views over the Lakeland fells and Brothers Water, a small lake at the foot of the pass. The name of the pass comes from a large boulder nearby that resembles a little church (kirk). Wordsworth wrote about it in Kirkstone Pass:
--and yon, whose church-like frame
Gives to this savage Pass its name.
Aspiring Road! that lov'st to hide
Thy daring in a vapoury bourn . . .
Sitting at the top of the pass is the junction of two roads, one leading to Ambleside, the other to Windermere. Here, the 17th century Travellers’ Inn provided comfort and shelter. The building became derelict but was rebuilt in 1847 and renamed the Kirkstone Pass Inn. Subject to the vagaries of wind, snow, horizontal rain, and mountain mist, this long, low building with blackened beams and a stone floor provides a welcoming open fire in winter. Proclaimed to be the third highest pub in England, it is, purportedly, riddled with ghosts.
Fairfield peak at 873 metres is just a short stroll away at just over 3 miles. Mind you the half first mile is a 300 metre ascent up hill.
The cache is just about 100 meters from the car park, OK that’s straight up and over a bit and its hidden in the crack of a gray rock, OK the whole mountain is gray rocks but did I say it was close to the car park?
It really is an easy cache with great views, a haunted pub and lots of gray rocks. The cache is a large white ex-curry tub in a black bag.
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