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Jackie Wolfe
from
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
wrote on 31 January, 2021
Your photos are amazing. You have just taken me on my favourite walk. The one I do in my imagination when I can't sleep!
I am now over 80. I remember staying at the Black Sail Hut youth hostel with my Dad when I was about nine years old. The Buttermere fells were always my favourites. Red Pike, HIgh Style, High Crag on the one side, Robinson, Dale Head and Hindscarth on the other, and of course Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike at the head of the lake. I waitressed at the Buttermere Hotel while I was an undergrad., around 1957-60. Returned with my two young sons and stayed at Gatesgarth Farm (BandB and evening meal back then) in the hot dry summer of 1976. Such a disappointment on Haystacks. No Innominate Tarn that year. Just a cracked, dry mud-flat. Returned as often as I could. Last time, with grandson of 11, in 2016 stayed at a farm just out of the village, and had rain every day. Couldn't make any of the high fells. Where I used to run the path round Buttermere before breakfast I now needed help over the rocky sections. Had to enjoy it as my morning walk and look forward to a hot cuppa in the village. Thank you for bring back such vivid memories by taking me on my favourite hike.
I am now over 80. I remember staying at the Black Sail Hut youth hostel with my Dad when I was about nine years old. The Buttermere fells were always my favourites. Red Pike, HIgh Style, High Crag on the one side, Robinson, Dale Head and Hindscarth on the other, and of course Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike at the head of the lake. I waitressed at the Buttermere Hotel while I was an undergrad., around 1957-60. Returned with my two young sons and stayed at Gatesgarth Farm (BandB and evening meal back then) in the hot dry summer of 1976. Such a disappointment on Haystacks. No Innominate Tarn that year. Just a cracked, dry mud-flat. Returned as often as I could. Last time, with grandson of 11, in 2016 stayed at a farm just out of the village, and had rain every day. Couldn't make any of the high fells. Where I used to run the path round Buttermere before breakfast I now needed help over the rocky sections. Had to enjoy it as my morning walk and look forward to a hot cuppa in the village. Thank you for bring back such vivid memories by taking me on my favourite hike.
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