Bivvy on a hill-top
The last Friday in September I had a free night, which is pretty rare. I felt the need to get a few miles in my legs before the OMM. With the unseasonal warm weather I wanted to get out early and knew the only way that was going to happen was if I actually woke up ontop of a hill and had to run back.
By chance, I found out some friends were heading up to Kirkstone to do a recce for a race so I dashed home from the office and stuffed a few essentials in my much used GoLite VO24 Pack. From Kirkstone we wandered up Stoney Cove Pike in the dark. After waving the others off, I found a sheltered spot behind a wall and got the stove out and setup my minimal camp. After some food and a brew I dozed off looking at the stars (and wishing I knew what some of them were).
I woke to some gentle rain before 7am, but by the time I'd had some porridge and yet more tea it'd pretty much moved on. By 7.30am I was on my way, and had a cracking run over to High Street, Harter Fell and Kentmere Pike following the ridgeline down to Staveley and straight into Wilf's for a second breakfast.
^ Ant
