Lake District Letterboxing

Doing some letterboxing much further afield up in the lake district. Not as many as on Dartmoor, but still a good number so wherever you are in the Lake you should be able to find some. Most of the boxes in the lakes can be found on Ian Kilpatricks webpage which is linked to on the right hand column.

Found 3 of the 4 I was looking for on the Fairfield Horseshoe, the one missed was because we weren't paying attention as we walked round and went too far to be able to head back to find it. Some very nice stamps though so well worth the climb and walk around. The scenery is pretty impressive too.

Also went looking for some stamps in the Scarfell/Scarfell Pike area. Managed to find one there, time constraints preventing the other two being found. Was nice to find a book that many hadn't found before me because of it's remote location. Was either 4^th or 5^th in the book which is easily the nearest to the front of a book that I've ever been and the previous find was over 3 years ago! As I said, it's a remote location!

Only one more was found during the break. The day we went to Conniston was so cloudy the clues were meaningless and the bearings even less useful. However a nice one was found near Jacks Rake. Difficult to get to, again only about the 3th in the book, and suspect it won't be found again for a little while. Slid some of the way down the slope after getting the stamp. Probably the hardest of the lake district finds given it's location and difficulty in terms of finding somewhere to put everything while I recorded all the details.

The clues for the ones I found at below.

LAKE DISTRICT-HIGH SWEDEN BRIDGE-IG,NY.37729.06687, OS Landranger Sheet 90. From High Sweden Bridge walk W up path to a stile over a wall. Now go 44p 270° to large boulder with a large split in it. Now go 22p 328° to a large rock at the end of a wall. Box is behind stones under smaller rock to the left of the large rock.

LAKE DISTRICT-HIGH PIKE-IG,NY.374.089, OS Landranger Sheet 90. From cairn on summit walk 45p 345° to a small rock outcrop below your feet. Box behind stones near top.

LAKE DISTRICT-LOW PIKE-IG,NY.374.081, OS Landranger Sheet 90. From summit cairn walk N to a stile over a stone wall now go 44p 347° to a large vertical boulder. From here walk 10p on 180° to box under stones 1p from wall.

LAKE DISTRICT-LANGDALE-JACK'S RAKE-PAVEY ARK-RH,NY.286.078, OS Landranger Sheet 90. Halfway down diagonal crevice in small crag just below tree on the same contour as the base of rake. Tree on skyline in rake 250deg. Island in middle of Stickle Tarn 161deg.

LAKE DISTRICT-SCA FELL-FOXES TARN-RH,NY.205.068, OS Landranger Sheet 90. From Tarn go on 120° to a very large boulder on skyline then 10p 72° to a slanting rock. Box under rock behind stones. Scafell Pike 32°.